Live in the country do ya? Had a rural Michigander friend (now Iowan) come and visit us a year or so ago. We live in the suburbs but still he was quite horrified by the density and the lack of privacy. He said he would not buy a house if he couldn't stand on the porch during the day, pee off it, and be in zero danger of anyone seeing.
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And a D-pad is better for playing classic Super Mario Bros. than an analog stick (if for no other reason than the fast direction switching). So bring out something truly next-generation where the Revolution control will be better.
Here, the buffoons that could have been characterized in that wine taster movie about pinot noir (don't remember the name) are made fun of. Do you understand?
Do you understand that the buffoons in Sideways were meant to be pitied, not admired?
Posts like yours are why a large percentage of Americans believe that a large percentage of the French are utter twats.
What's so bad about the collapse of the entertainment industry? Aside from all the useless middlemen, it's a win for everyone. It's not as if the artists will stop recording music or making movies because some marketers got canned.
No story! It's an epic tale of gawd-appeasement, bravery in the face of impossible odds, and the art of taking a 5-ton corpse and converting it into [x] blessed can of black dragon meat.
There are NPCs! The Oracle! Like in Matrix! Bizarre dream sequences (the Rogue level)! Moral choices! (You don the helmet! You feel changed! Hey, that Incubus is hot!)
After all, Sony did such a bang-up job with their promotion (nearly nonexistent) and distribution (serials shipped with the wrong games, to name one problem) of the recent Asheron's Call expansions.
I've only played this for maybe 30-45 minutes with my friend's kid, but to me it seemed like a bunch of button mashing. I must be really missing something, so I'll pick it up again. Keep in mind I'm 34 and therefore suck at all fighting games;).
Because "not recommended..." is carny for "we are covering our asses with this caveat." It's usually fine, and cowboy admins love this shit! And it makes me very happy that wiki has cowboy admins.
So you're saying that if you name your products after famous consumer products or services, like say Firefox (the movie, among other things), and Thunderbird (the TV show, again among other things), it's a copyright violation? Surely this violates some free somethingorother! Don't these people with prior rights to the name and the fame (such as it is) gained therein have ANY rights?
NO! Say the free rights folks, as their things are free(tm)(r)(c)(wow) and must be exempt from all laws! What were the previous rightsholders thinking? Capitalist running dog aggressors of the capitalist working class, every one!
We like iPods, we like Cell phones, we like digital cameras, but we don't buy PDAs that do all three.
Which of course is because that nothing that does all three does any of them particularly well. Link me to a device that will play my music with at least 20 gigs capacity, allow me to use it as a drive, and have features at least approaching an iPod or another highend mp3 player; be a cell phone with entertaining ringtones (ok, this isn't hard); and is a digital camera with at least 5 megapixel reso and optical zoom, very good pixel quality, and other "good" digital camera options, and I'm all over it. Oh, and throw in features of a low to mid end GPS as well, and some generic PDA features. And it better be pretty small as well -- should fit in my pocket with no problem. And it should all integrate with my PC.
Helluva task for some designer, not to mention keeping the price of this down since you're miniturizing everything.
Somewhere in a basement in rural England, a page ruffles on that fateful 1965 Electronics issue. Its owner sitting in his shed, eating a pork pie and drinking a nice brown ale, thinking that maybe the 1964 copy of Exchange And Mart in his shed might need a tad upgraded.
"For me, asking why I play a MU (multi-user text game) when I could play EverQuest is like asking someone why they would read a book instead of watching the movie of the same story..."
Please. This is hardly a valid metaphor. Unless of course you really want to compare literature with hoary flavour text and:
The orc hits you for 9 damage! You hit the orc for 4 damage! The orc missed you! You hit the orc for 14 damage! The orc hits you for 3 damage! You hit the orc for 8 damage! You kill the orc!
I have a minor case of these tremors stemming from chemotherapy a few years back. Using a mouse is semi-annoying, especially to game with. However I have a Logitech trackball with the ball controlled by my thumb. My thumb doesn't shake much so it works great.
I was fished in big time by this article. I didn't notice the landoverbaptist URL. I read the first paragraph and went, er, OK, an undead priest, sure. It was 2/3 of the way through before I stopped chuckling and went "oh, er, joke on me.":|
1. How did Scott McCloud weasel his way into this article? And how sad is it that he's still "best-known" for Zot!, which was around in the late 80s and early 90s?
Matt Furey's Combat Conditioning is also a damn great book/DVD for bodyweight exercises. From looking at the page, it seems that Enamait's is probably identical or close to it, and filled with lots o' fun marketing stuff. But the exercises are fantastic, and the man really gives zero bad advice.
Though I would financially support this class action just to get the court records, which would include testimony from countless geeks screaming about their deleted Kingdom Hearts save files, you know where they had the UBER gummi ship...
I was disappointed to find that WoW was essentially a more-questy, prettier version of DaoC, a game that was a less-questy yet prettier version of Everquest. I've already played these games, collected 4 Orc Scalps, 6 Goblin Teeth, 8 Wolf Meats, and a Partridge In A Pear Tree over and over again. I can't bring myself to essentially the same quest system and monster-slaughter treadmill, even if the quests are more worthwhile from this treadmill perspective.
A truly worthwhile "quest system" should come close to what people expect from a pen-and-paper RPG. True adventures with adventure hooks, clues, the thrill of the chase, and a real reward at the end. After all, in my pen-and-paper days, I don't remember a DM ever telling me that such-and-such NPC needed 8 wolf meats, and that other guy wanted me to deliver someone's beer for 7 coppers. Even my most-hard-up D&D character would never stoop to being someone's barmaid.
That was "SAM". Sadly, I can't remember what it stood for, but happily, I have memories of many hours spent in my high school's computer lab guffawing at the narsty things we managed to get SAM to say. The best and the brightest...
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Live in the country do ya? Had a rural Michigander friend (now Iowan) come and visit us a year or so ago. We live in the suburbs but still he was quite horrified by the density and the lack of privacy. He said he would not buy a house if he couldn't stand on the porch during the day, pee off it, and be in zero danger of anyone seeing.
And a D-pad is better for playing classic Super Mario Bros. than an analog stick (if for no other reason than the fast direction switching). So bring out something truly next-generation where the Revolution control will be better.
Do you understand that the buffoons in Sideways were meant to be pitied, not admired?
Posts like yours are why a large percentage of Americans believe that a large percentage of the French are utter twats.
What's so bad about the collapse of the entertainment industry? Aside from all the useless middlemen, it's a win for everyone. It's not as if the artists will stop recording music or making movies because some marketers got canned.
There are NPCs! The Oracle! Like in Matrix! Bizarre dream sequences (the Rogue level)! Moral choices! (You don the helmet! You feel changed! Hey, that Incubus is hot!)
After all, Sony did such a bang-up job with their promotion (nearly nonexistent) and distribution (serials shipped with the wrong games, to name one problem) of the recent Asheron's Call expansions.
I've only played this for maybe 30-45 minutes with my friend's kid, but to me it seemed like a bunch of button mashing. I must be really missing something, so I'll pick it up again. Keep in mind I'm 34 and therefore suck at all fighting games ;).
Because "not recommended..." is carny for "we are covering our asses with this caveat." It's usually fine, and cowboy admins love this shit! And it makes me very happy that wiki has cowboy admins.
NO! Say the free rights folks, as their things are free(tm)(r)(c)(wow) and must be exempt from all laws! What were the previous rightsholders thinking? Capitalist running dog aggressors of the capitalist working class, every one!
Mod parent up and cc Richard Garriott please!
Which of course is because that nothing that does all three does any of them particularly well. Link me to a device that will play my music with at least 20 gigs capacity, allow me to use it as a drive, and have features at least approaching an iPod or another highend mp3 player; be a cell phone with entertaining ringtones (ok, this isn't hard); and is a digital camera with at least 5 megapixel reso and optical zoom, very good pixel quality, and other "good" digital camera options, and I'm all over it. Oh, and throw in features of a low to mid end GPS as well, and some generic PDA features. And it better be pretty small as well -- should fit in my pocket with no problem. And it should all integrate with my PC.
Helluva task for some designer, not to mention keeping the price of this down since you're miniturizing everything.
Somewhere in a basement in rural England, a page ruffles on that fateful 1965 Electronics issue. Its owner sitting in his shed, eating a pork pie and drinking a nice brown ale, thinking that maybe the 1964 copy of Exchange And Mart in his shed might need a tad upgraded.
Back in the days when the mere words "Road Show" would start a holy war :). Fun game, IMO.
Please. This is hardly a valid metaphor. Unless of course you really want to compare literature with hoary flavour text and:
The orc hits you for 9 damage!
You hit the orc for 4 damage!
The orc missed you!
You hit the orc for 14 damage!
The orc hits you for 3 damage!
You hit the orc for 8 damage!
You kill the orc!
Do you understand what "Shadowrun == D&D" means? It's directly from your post. I think you meant "!=".
I have a minor case of these tremors stemming from chemotherapy a few years back. Using a mouse is semi-annoying, especially to game with. However I have a Logitech trackball with the ball controlled by my thumb. My thumb doesn't shake much so it works great.
Surely you mean Kent.
I was fished in big time by this article. I didn't notice the landoverbaptist URL. I read the first paragraph and went, er, OK, an undead priest, sure. It was 2/3 of the way through before I stopped chuckling and went "oh, er, joke on me." :|
Best reply I've read all day. No mod points.
2. Zero mention of Child's Play. Well-researched.
Matt Furey's Combat Conditioning is also a damn great book/DVD for bodyweight exercises. From looking at the page, it seems that Enamait's is probably identical or close to it, and filled with lots o' fun marketing stuff. But the exercises are fantastic, and the man really gives zero bad advice.
F-U-N-N-A-Y
Though I would financially support this class action just to get the court records, which would include testimony from countless geeks screaming about their deleted Kingdom Hearts save files, you know where they had the UBER gummi ship...
A truly worthwhile "quest system" should come close to what people expect from a pen-and-paper RPG. True adventures with adventure hooks, clues, the thrill of the chase, and a real reward at the end. After all, in my pen-and-paper days, I don't remember a DM ever telling me that such-and-such NPC needed 8 wolf meats, and that other guy wanted me to deliver someone's beer for 7 coppers. Even my most-hard-up D&D character would never stoop to being someone's barmaid.
That was "SAM". Sadly, I can't remember what it stood for, but happily, I have memories of many hours spent in my high school's computer lab guffawing at the narsty things we managed to get SAM to say. The best and the brightest...