Now, this might just be me here......but isn't this just a case of a writer trying to emphasize how smart he thinks he is?
I sincerely question that the creators of these games spent any significant amount of time reading freud or looking into the deeper meaning behind "icky umbilical cord-thing".
More likely, the process was something along the lines of "What creeps me out?"
I'd love to see a good analysis of horror games, and the minds of their creators, and the reason why things are scary or not, but this is not it.
I'd be very interested in learning why some people find the direct threat of shambling zombies scarier, whilst others find the altered reality theme of Silent Hill scarier.
thought I've since calmed down after venting and no longer support my earlier idea, I felt I owed you a reply.
"you" in this case can means terrorists and "yours" is used to euphemistically refer to any city in a country in the middle east, selected arbitrarily, and hopefully boasting a goodly supply of innocents.
In essence if you can't beat em your way, beat em their way, only better.
But as I said, I took a deep breath, had a walk, and am no longer genocidal.:)
they want us to pay for extensions that were previously available free of charge.
These include FlashGot, which lets Firefox work with third-party download managers; Bandwidth Tester, which lets people determine their connection speed; and SwitchProxy, which lets people surf anonymously with Firefox by configuring Firefox to work with multiple Web proxy servers
I must say that my visit to upstate NY did little good as far as the stereotype american thing is concerned, but you have a valid point.
Likewise, the dutch are not all pot head pornographers that kill babies for fun.
In fact, I've never met more potheads anywhere in my extensive travels than i did in the rochester area. This was AFTER a two hour delay trying to get through customs at the airport... (long hair! trenchcoat! flew in from amsterdam! DEALER ALERT!)
I'm pretty sure, that as long as you don't go around rabble-rousing and trying to engender a revolution, you'll be fine. And the worst they'd probably do to you in china as a foreigner, is deport you. It's the sensible thing to do.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and state that they are very subjective terms, and the the people launching these "unprovoked attacks" felt rather WWII resistance fighters striking at an occupational force.
Truth, oddly enough, is also in the eye of the beholder.
I guess we should distinguish useable skins from skins that are functional art. I know a lot of winamp skinners, and to be honest, useability is hardly foremost on their minds when they launch into their newest crazed creation.
There are a lot of winamp skins that are entirely simple and useable though, with the buttons mostly where you'd expect them to be. And I tend to use those in the long run, because I don't want to spend time figuring out which of the facets on the anime-mecha-bug-zoid skin is the stop button.
I don't see why he "invalidated" that particular guideline. Web Forums as well as many sites with a lot of content frequently include a "screen identifier" of sorts at the top of the page. and I find those exceedingly helpful, and am often annoyed to find sites that do not provide them.
They tell me where I am, and allow me to go back, lovely things.
Example: "Shinsen-Subs Forums// Staff Forums// General Team Chatter// Shinsen-IRC"
yes and the next thing would be outfitting the most wide-spread operating system with a browser that actually really supports the standards you employed to create your webpage.
I believe they are pushing towards the singular conclusion that, yes, a big red button still kicks any GUI's ass in terms of deploying weapons of mass destruction.
That's some pretty flawed logic there, just because Nukes haven't been used as often makes them less dangerous?
I must say I disagree rather firmly with that. And just because "far more" people have been killed by small arms and improvised explosions so far certainly doesn't mean it's going to be that way forever.
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...what on earth is the point of skywriting in a scale so large the only way to see it is on a crummy flightplan?
Now, this might just be me here... ...but isn't this just a case of a writer trying to emphasize how smart he thinks he is?
I sincerely question that the creators of these games spent any significant amount of time reading freud or looking into the deeper meaning behind "icky umbilical cord-thing".
More likely, the process was something along the lines of "What creeps me out?"
I'd love to see a good analysis of horror games, and the minds of their creators, and the reason why things are scary or not, but this is not it.
I'd be very interested in learning why some people find the direct threat of shambling zombies scarier, whilst others find the altered reality theme of Silent Hill scarier.
If you ever play Silent Hill: The Room, you will die.
Have you seen the yellow sign?
But damnit! it should be real.
in an appaling twist of fate, the quality of that homebrew movie's FX was probably on par with that of Mortal Kombat
off-topic: that's one sweet looking gadget O_O
"you" in this case can means terrorists and "yours" is used to euphemistically refer to any city in a country in the middle east, selected arbitrarily, and hopefully boasting a goodly supply of innocents.
In essence if you can't beat em your way, beat em their way, only better.
But as I said, I took a deep breath, had a walk, and am no longer genocidal. :)
"every time you bomb one of our cities, we reduce a major city of yours to molten glass. Still want to play?"
sounds good to me by now.
I wouldn't ever consider Bush to have risen above anything. But maybe that's just my euro-trash attitude, cause you know, we kill babies and stuff.
Don't forget cool little spaceship-shaped cursors!
oh come on man? where's your healthy cynicism?
you know it has to be that...
I know I'm not paying for any of those.
Likewise, the dutch are not all pot head pornographers that kill babies for fun.
In fact, I've never met more potheads anywhere in my extensive travels than i did in the rochester area. This was AFTER a two hour delay trying to get through customs at the airport... (long hair! trenchcoat! flew in from amsterdam! DEALER ALERT!)
I'm pretty sure, that as long as you don't go around rabble-rousing and trying to engender a revolution, you'll be fine. And the worst they'd probably do to you in china as a foreigner, is deport you. It's the sensible thing to do.
Truth, oddly enough, is also in the eye of the beholder.
that was exactly the point I was trying to make, yes.
Guns and Ammo manufacturers
Car manufacturers
The scientists that developed the atom bomb
The Heads and Board of all government agencies
Your mom
Trees that produce solid branches that _could_ be used as clubs.
etc.
Sometimes the people that create laws need to get their heads checked, I swear.
As for the strg-c... well... not everyone uses a standard English keyboard.
I was just on my way to prune some threads though...
I just wanted to chime in by saying that "have less aptitude for" does not automatically mean "all suck at".
There are a lot of winamp skins that are entirely simple and useable though, with the buttons mostly where you'd expect them to be. And I tend to use those in the long run, because I don't want to spend time figuring out which of the facets on the anime-mecha-bug-zoid skin is the stop button.
They tell me where I am, and allow me to go back, lovely things.
Example: "Shinsen-Subs Forums // Staff Forums // General Team Chatter // Shinsen-IRC"
aww yeah. love it.
yes and the next thing would be outfitting the most wide-spread operating system with a browser that actually really supports the standards you employed to create your webpage.
I believe they are pushing towards the singular conclusion that, yes, a big red button still kicks any GUI's ass in terms of deploying weapons of mass destruction.
I must say I disagree rather firmly with that. And just because "far more" people have been killed by small arms and improvised explosions so far certainly doesn't mean it's going to be that way forever.
"things clearly point to an event, but we don't know what that event is, give us money so we can find out"
naaaahhh....