Oh yea, you can have gunshots, swearing, explosions, people dying in sprays of blood... but simulated sex between two marionettes is bad, bad, bad!
Maybe the censors got mocked in the movie also?:P
I'm looking forward to see this...
I want to see how much lampooning of the hollywood actors and the real-world political figures is done. I hope most people mocked in the movie at least laugh at themselves...
While it's true that people who have Xbox games will likely have an Xbox, how will Microsoft expect to gain any *new* converts if they don't at least offer backwards compatibility.
I dropped out of the console wars when the 64bit systems started coming out, and only recently (a year ago) got back in. All of the consoles were the same price, with the Gamecube about 50 bucks cheaper (Canadian, eh!), so it came down to games. Even if the PS2 had come out at the exact same time as the Xbox and Gamecube, it still would have a huge library of games. At the time, all Xbox really had in it's future was Halo... at 70 bucks. Gamecube really didn't have games aimed at me, they were aiming at kids and at best, teens. PS2, on the other hand, had 20 dollar PS1 games, and 30 dollar PS2 games (Greatest Hits). Guess which one won out? PS2, hands down.
Xbox 2 will have no chance at gaining me as a convert if it doesn't have backwards compatibility. I ain't waiting for a year for good games (good=fun).
Buying an Xbox2 with no good games is like buying the BMW with no tires, gas, seats or windows.
Many of them you'll find in bargain bins or "previously enjoyed" at EB, Circuit City, Best Buy, Future Shop and so on. Many games from Strategy First are RTS, and vary in degree of difficulty.
Chariots of War
Cossacks
Kohan
Europa Universalis I & II
Hearts of Iron
Legion
Man of War II
Patrician II
Victoria
Waterloo
Of course there is Shogun: Total War.
Empire Earth is another suggestion as well.
Sure, not many that are "conquer the entire world" rts games, but surely you can find some fun (and cheaply) in that selection.
... if you can't find what you want, you have to create it yourself.
If you can't find a "stock" server, then why not create one? Surely you can't be alone in wanting to play stock Half Life, or Quake ]|[, or Battlefield 1942. Get together a few like-minded individuals and rent a server somewhere. A quick google on "game server rental" brings up quite a few places to rent servers. If you have a good, fast connection to the internet, get a second computer and set up a dedicated server.
If you aren't willing to host your own server, or pay someone to host one, there are still plenty (thousands) of game servers out there, there are ones that you will find fun.
If you're willing to pay $15 dollars a month to pay for an MMORPG, why not do the same to play a FPS? There are numerous places to rent servers and run game as you see fit.
Get together a small group of friends, or form a clan, and a server rental will be a couple of dollars, each, a month.
ROFL! The NDP? Good f'ing luck. Ontario remembers the NDP, and there's no way the NDP would ever get elected to a Federal gov't. I doubt BC would go for it, nor Saskatchewan either. Alberta, which you could call Texas North, would probably laugh the NDP outta the province... Good luck in Quebec.
As for HP ripping us off, I am more likely to believe DnD made an error somewhere.
Well, if we're not apathetic, how'd the Liberals get elected three times in a row, with majority governments? And, not to mention, all this time all I've heard is bitter complaints.:P
I just wanted to point out a small error in his column, and that perhaps we in Canada don't seem to care about how the votes are counted. Three elections, and not one single voter who stayed behind to watch (in the three different locations I scruitineered)?
Canada's system of government isn't without flaws though, an unelected Senate, and no way of choosing who the Prime Minster will be. In the last three Canadian Federal elections, I'll bet most people were voting for Liberals, wishing it was Jean Chretien at the helm.
Cringly has one small flaw in that, the scruitineers from each party do not count the ballots. The officials from Elections Canada do all the counting. The scruitineers are allowed only to observe the process, to ensure that there are no irregularities. In the three elections I scruitineered for, I did not witness any irregularities.
And, in all three, no members of the public remained to watch the ballot counting. Voter apathy is probably as high or higher in Canada than in the US.
I usually turn to the Internet first, whether looking for movie reviews, news or in depth information on . If I can't find it there, then I'll resort to newspapers, books, the library, encyclopedias, so on and so forth.
The internet is just faster and more convenient, it's as biased and one-sided as anything else can be, so you have to always take things with a grain of salt, as the saying goes.
I've used one of these three programs for most of the writing I've done in the past 8 years or so, since Windoze 95 hit the world. Before that, I used a Wang word processor.
Seriously, I agree with the post above where people had nasty words for Word. I strongly dislike word processors, especially ones that do things automatically without asking or indicating what they're about to do, and can't be turned off. I don't know about everyone else, but whenever I make a typing mistake, my fingers have already backspaced over it and retyped the correct letters before my concious brain has fully caught on. So when MS Word changes "teh" to "the" without my telling it to... it pisses me off.:P It's a pity that so many of my business's clients use Word...
I'd heavily suggest a ping pong table, a pool table or an ice hockey table. Or perhaps foosball.:P
For computer games, a nice FPS like Quake, Doom or Half Life for the quick, "gotta kill something" for stress relief. Any of the Sim games (not the Sims, but Sim Ant, Sim Tower, Sim City, etc...) for management and organizational skills. And then for team competitions, perhaps a game like Age of Empires/Empire Earth/WarCraft, etc, any nice RTS game really that you can have teams...
Heh, if you really want to get paranoid, you have to realize, someone *is* looking over your shoulder. It's all a matter of time before someone takes a look at the logs. =
Seriously, KaZaA Lite is a great program, none of the annoying popups, and no Gater spyware. KaZap's a good addition to it as well.
... can be found here: http://www2.amd.com/us-en/gcab/lt/exam/1,,,00.html
Heh, my apologies if this has been posted already. Didn't have time to read every single last post today.:P
Yes, but writing a letter and sending it snail mail can take a couple of days for it to get where it has to go. And you are assuming that the CEO's personal secretary doesn't screen his/her mail.:P
Hehe:P I have played EverQuest, Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot. They are so natural an extension of a mud, that people even use the same terms I've been hearing on muds for years. Newbie, mob (short for mobile), pkilling, and so forth. Hang around in town long enough on EQ, and you'll hear those words used.
As for being deranged from playing the games too much... heh, there comes a time when you let go of the mouse, turn off the monitor, and go outside and play.:P
Seriously, some people have forgotten how to do that...
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Oh yea, you can have gunshots, swearing, explosions, people dying in sprays of blood... but simulated sex between two marionettes is bad, bad, bad! Maybe the censors got mocked in the movie also? :P
Bah, I just want to see some marionettes doing bad things to bad marionettes. Is that too much to ask? :P
Slashdot.
*ROFL* You let your children watch R rated movies? :P Here's your sign... H
Heh, the sarcasm will probably sail over their heads too. ;)
Heh, Penn's just jealous his marionette has better hair than he does. :P
I'm looking forward to see this... I want to see how much lampooning of the hollywood actors and the real-world political figures is done. I hope most people mocked in the movie at least laugh at themselves...
While it's true that people who have Xbox games will likely have an Xbox, how will Microsoft expect to gain any *new* converts if they don't at least offer backwards compatibility. I dropped out of the console wars when the 64bit systems started coming out, and only recently (a year ago) got back in. All of the consoles were the same price, with the Gamecube about 50 bucks cheaper (Canadian, eh!), so it came down to games. Even if the PS2 had come out at the exact same time as the Xbox and Gamecube, it still would have a huge library of games. At the time, all Xbox really had in it's future was Halo... at 70 bucks. Gamecube really didn't have games aimed at me, they were aiming at kids and at best, teens. PS2, on the other hand, had 20 dollar PS1 games, and 30 dollar PS2 games (Greatest Hits). Guess which one won out? PS2, hands down. Xbox 2 will have no chance at gaining me as a convert if it doesn't have backwards compatibility. I ain't waiting for a year for good games (good=fun). Buying an Xbox2 with no good games is like buying the BMW with no tires, gas, seats or windows.
Many of them you'll find in bargain bins or "previously enjoyed" at EB, Circuit City, Best Buy, Future Shop and so on. Many games from Strategy First are RTS, and vary in degree of difficulty. Chariots of War Cossacks Kohan Europa Universalis I & II Hearts of Iron Legion Man of War II Patrician II Victoria Waterloo Of course there is Shogun: Total War. Empire Earth is another suggestion as well. Sure, not many that are "conquer the entire world" rts games, but surely you can find some fun (and cheaply) in that selection.
... if you can't find what you want, you have to create it yourself. If you can't find a "stock" server, then why not create one? Surely you can't be alone in wanting to play stock Half Life, or Quake ]|[, or Battlefield 1942. Get together a few like-minded individuals and rent a server somewhere. A quick google on "game server rental" brings up quite a few places to rent servers. If you have a good, fast connection to the internet, get a second computer and set up a dedicated server. If you aren't willing to host your own server, or pay someone to host one, there are still plenty (thousands) of game servers out there, there are ones that you will find fun.
If you're willing to pay $15 dollars a month to pay for an MMORPG, why not do the same to play a FPS? There are numerous places to rent servers and run game as you see fit. Get together a small group of friends, or form a clan, and a server rental will be a couple of dollars, each, a month.
Dang, missed it... was going to laugh at Motion Picture Ass Head too. :)
Nice way to start a google bomb... :P
ROFL! The NDP? Good f'ing luck. Ontario remembers the NDP, and there's no way the NDP would ever get elected to a Federal gov't. I doubt BC would go for it, nor Saskatchewan either. Alberta, which you could call Texas North, would probably laugh the NDP outta the province... Good luck in Quebec. As for HP ripping us off, I am more likely to believe DnD made an error somewhere.
Well, if we're not apathetic, how'd the Liberals get elected three times in a row, with majority governments? And, not to mention, all this time all I've heard is bitter complaints. :P
I just wanted to point out a small error in his column, and that perhaps we in Canada don't seem to care about how the votes are counted. Three elections, and not one single voter who stayed behind to watch (in the three different locations I scruitineered)?
Canada's system of government isn't without flaws though, an unelected Senate, and no way of choosing who the Prime Minster will be. In the last three Canadian Federal elections, I'll bet most people were voting for Liberals, wishing it was Jean Chretien at the helm.
Cringly has one small flaw in that, the scruitineers from each party do not count the ballots. The officials from Elections Canada do all the counting. The scruitineers are allowed only to observe the process, to ensure that there are no irregularities. In the three elections I scruitineered for, I did not witness any irregularities. And, in all three, no members of the public remained to watch the ballot counting. Voter apathy is probably as high or higher in Canada than in the US.
I usually turn to the Internet first, whether looking for movie reviews, news or in depth information on . If I can't find it there, then I'll resort to newspapers, books, the library, encyclopedias, so on and so forth. The internet is just faster and more convenient, it's as biased and one-sided as anything else can be, so you have to always take things with a grain of salt, as the saying goes.
I've used one of these three programs for most of the writing I've done in the past 8 years or so, since Windoze 95 hit the world. Before that, I used a Wang word processor. Seriously, I agree with the post above where people had nasty words for Word. I strongly dislike word processors, especially ones that do things automatically without asking or indicating what they're about to do, and can't be turned off. I don't know about everyone else, but whenever I make a typing mistake, my fingers have already backspaced over it and retyped the correct letters before my concious brain has fully caught on. So when MS Word changes "teh" to "the" without my telling it to... it pisses me off. :P It's a pity that so many of my business's clients use Word...
I'd heavily suggest a ping pong table, a pool table or an ice hockey table. Or perhaps foosball. :P
For computer games, a nice FPS like Quake, Doom or Half Life for the quick, "gotta kill something" for stress relief. Any of the Sim games (not the Sims, but Sim Ant, Sim Tower, Sim City, etc...) for management and organizational skills. And then for team competitions, perhaps a game like Age of Empires/Empire Earth/WarCraft, etc, any nice RTS game really that you can have teams...
Gah, nevermind. Sleeping at work...
Ya, this is old news really. :P FFInsider has had the cover image (if it's the real one) and a few tidbits for a while now.
Final Fantasy thirteen? Where is this?
Heh, if you really want to get paranoid, you have to realize, someone *is* looking over your shoulder. It's all a matter of time before someone takes a look at the logs. = Seriously, KaZaA Lite is a great program, none of the annoying popups, and no Gater spyware. KaZap's a good addition to it as well.
... can be found here: http://www2.amd.com/us-en/gcab/lt/exam/1,,,00.html
Heh, my apologies if this has been posted already. Didn't have time to read every single last post today. :P
Yes, but writing a letter and sending it snail mail can take a couple of days for it to get where it has to go. And you are assuming that the CEO's personal secretary doesn't screen his/her mail. :P
Hehe :P I have played EverQuest, Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot. They are so natural an extension of a mud, that people even use the same terms I've been hearing on muds for years. Newbie, mob (short for mobile), pkilling, and so forth. Hang around in town long enough on EQ, and you'll hear those words used.
As for being deranged from playing the games too much... heh, there comes a time when you let go of the mouse, turn off the monitor, and go outside and play. :P
Seriously, some people have forgotten how to do that...