This is a very bad ripoff of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette ~ Have you ever read it? It's Juliet - no tte at the end:)
This being due to the fact that his sirname was that of the archrivals of Juliette's family. ~ Pray tell, what is a sirname? I'm hoping you meant sUrname...
1. Quote good 2. Rip quote 3..... 4. Profit!!! BUT, it doesn't work if you get the quote wrong. ~ actually, everybody got the gist of his post, so who cares? It works even less if you spell your nitpicking wrong;)
Sadly, my absolute favorite type of game is graphic adventure! I have noticed in the past few years that they are becoming harder and harder to come by, and those you *can* find really suck (for the most part). Where, oh where are the Gabriel Knight adventures of the past? Will there be no more Leisure Suit Larry? However will I live?
I actually find myself playing RPGs now, which I never had any desire to play before.... Thank goodness Neverwinter Nights is a good enough mix of the two to keep me busy for months (at least) to come!
I work in a government office, and we receive a LOT of unsolicited faxes. I've found that a simple phone call can get almost all the traffic to stop immediately. Granted, this is a pain in the ass and it's time-consuming, but with four phone calls, I've managed to completely get rid of all our unsolicited faxes! People are usually much more polite about no longer sending faxes, but (here, at least), the laws are stricter, since receiving a fax actually costs money (the paper it's printed on and the ink it uses up add up to a lot of money over a year).
The people I'm working with have been receiving these faxes for YEARS, but no one ever thought to call the company to get them to stop.
While Sly Cooper isn't a 2d platform game, it does have several levels which ARE 2d platform:) It was a bit of an unexpected twist, I'll admit, but it was REALLY neat! Definitely one of the features that made this game completely addictive.
What makes one classic language more important than another? Why is Sanskrit more important than Basque? Why are heiroglyphs more important than Sumerian? Who decides? There are those of us who would like to study obscure dying/dead languages, but if you have your way, it's tough titty for us. ALL knowledge should be preserved. It's not like we don't have the digital space for it. It's the knowledge you try to suppress or destroy that comes back to bite you in the ass later on, and hey, if somebody gets a kick out of writing love letters in a dead language "code", then let them have their fun:)
Didn't Arnold Schwarzenegger do Batman (whichever one he was in) VERY shortly after recovering from heart surgery? Minor back pain? Gimme a break. Either they're mincing on how badly hurt he was, or he's a wuss. Take your pick.
M*A*S*H never replaced an actor - they replaced CHARACTERS (often with just-as-lovable, just-as-amusing characters). That's a big difference. Bewitched, however, was just wrong. Ole Durwood should have stayed put.
No, it wasn't made into a game, but it was a movie ABOUT an arcade game - pop culture - get it?:) It was actually a *book* first, if anyone remembers those, but Foster did a pretty good job of setting the good ole arcade game in history - altho my nephew reads TLS now and goes "what was he playing? quarters? HUH?" *sigh*
Q-BERT!!! I used to *love* that cartoon!!! Mario Brothers was a little weird, but still, it was okay, and the PacMan cartoon? Did the author of this review completely MISS the 80s?? Wasn't Sonic originally an arcade game? (or did that only come out in console? I really don't remember). Arcade video games were a HUGE part of early 80s pop culture:) it's all we had to do on Saturdays!
"I can't help thinking that there might be a psychological element to "Environmental illness"."
>You are VERY mistaken...
Personally, I would have to agree with you. The only psychological element I would be willing to believe in this case would be the effect the illness has had on the sufferers. Yes, the author of the site seems very bitter and paranoid, but he's been persecuted his entire life for an illness he can't explain. That might make me bitter, I'm thinking. If he thinks everyone's out to get him, or no one's willing to help him, then maybe he's just never encountered anyone who WAS willing to help him - that would make me paranoid.
My sister-in-law began having weird symptoms about three years ago. She was hospitalized, all kinds of tests were done on her, and so far, the only diagnosis she has is a tentative one of "High Anxiety Disorder" - a diagnosis we are not willing to accept without further investigation. Her symptoms came on her like a flash of lightning, and before her first "episode", she was a competent, contributing member of society who dealt with high- and low-stress situations very well.
Now, she can't work (because she never knows when she might have another episode), she shouldn't drive (but living in a rural area, she really has no choice). It's just baffling. She was transformed overnight from a strong, independent person to someone who experiences dissociative episodes, migraines, and who can never be left alone for more than a few hours.
Scary? You bet - but what can you do? I don't have a medical degree, and if I did, I still wouldn't know where to start - she's been tested for everything under the sun, and only when they ran out of things to test her for did they stick a psychological label on the mystery illness.
In the last office I worked in, there were sometimes 3 of us in a cubicle. Being an admin assistant, I wasn't important enough to warrant privacy, so all the temps were shuffled into my "office" (ha!) and I got to share not only my space, but my phone and computer too. And my boss had the nerve to complain that I had a negative attitude!
Students and interns, however, got REAL OFFICES with DOORS and did NOT have to share! tell me, would you be bitter?
We wouldn't be implying that girls can't enjoy something like LOTR, would we? I (being female and thus qualified to interject) loved the movies, the book was great, and I'm actually in the habit of reading long fiction (by long I mean more than 500-600 pages). My girl-brain hasn't burned out yet....
That happens when a review of the book goes out saying "this book is crap, don't buy it" and it doesn't sell as well as the other books in the series. The publisher doesn't care if it's part of a series - if it doesn't sell well, they won't reprint.
As a parent of two preschool children, I have to agree. My four-year-old is not allowed to browse the internet (of course, he can't type yet, so it's not really an issue). Until he is old enough to understand that certain materials are inappropriate, he will have to have either myself or my husband do his surfing for him, and we will either print or save relevant pages for him to view offline.
Once he's old enough to surf, he will be allowed to do so only when one parent is present, and we will limit the amount and types of websites he can view. Right now, he is allowed to use a laptop which is not connected to the internet (or to our own network), but which has many preschool educational games installed on it. I doubt he's feeling the lack.
If we are responsible for raising our children, then we're responsible for what they read, what they watch, what they surf. We can't expect the government to babysit our kids for us (hell, we can't even expect the government to babysit incarcerated criminals for us sometimes!) - we gave birth to them, essentially, we created new life. That carries a pretty hefty responsibility with it. Suck it up and stop asking Uncle Sam (or Uncle Jean in my case) to raise your kids for you.
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Are you saying that Gollum's facial movements and expressions were ineffectual? Did you *watch* said movie? C'mon now. That was the most fantastic piece of CGI animation I've EVER seen, and I used to work in the biz. It was a stroke of genius on Peter Jackson's part, and the results would have been very different if it had been another actor instead of Serkis. With Gollum's creation, you have Serkis's movements, his facial expressions (transposed onto Gollum's face, granted, but he did all the motions first) and his acting style. It's not like a cartoon character who is 100% invented. Serkis worked damn hard to make Gollum, and it's a slap in the face that the Academy won't acknowledge his work in some way. The man's not a technician, he's an actor.
Personally, I am an end-user and not a techie (right, so what am I doing here? don't ask!). Now, granted, I'm a tad more computer-savvy than the average end-user (having a disgustingly genius-like programmer for a husband helps), but even I fail to understand how tech staff can be so arrogant and condescending. Do the techs here think they can handle MY job? No? Then don't try to make me feel stupid for not being able to do THEIR job, which, in essence, is to help me use the technology I need to do my job.
Now I know that it's standard for techs to assume that the user is a moron, because, quite often, the user IS a moron. However, there are those of us who do have a slight clue what we're doing. So we can't understand root code, and we may not know what's wrong the first time our printer starts spewing out toner and blinking furiously, but that doesn't mean we're unintelligent or incapable of understanding.
I've never had training for any piece of software I've ever used, but I think I manage all right. I haven't had too many problems upgrading between different versions (I admit, it baffles me when the developer removes a certain feature for no apparent reason). All in all, even though I do basic checks before calling tech support to save them trouble, they tend to be even MORE annoyed when I seem to have a clue as to what I'm talking about. Seems they don't like knowledgeable users - it ruins their god-like image.
It's arrogant beyond belief to assume that all users are idiots. I know that's probably not what the parent post intended, but it's the end effect that counts. If you realize that your user isn't following quite as quickly as you're explaining, just slow down. Be patient. How would you have liked it if your grade two math teacher had just plowed through long division rather than explain it to you? Would you like it if someone pushed you away from your keyboard saying "Never mind, just let me do it"? The personal skills, with MOST tech support (not all, there are many good people out there), just aren't there. It's the truth. Deal with it.
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This is a very bad ripoff of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette ~ Have you ever read it? It's Juliet - no tte at the end :)
This being due to the fact that his sirname was that of the archrivals of Juliette's family. ~ Pray tell, what is a sirname? I'm hoping you meant sUrname...
1. Quote good 2. Rip quote 3. .... 4. Profit!!! BUT, it doesn't work if you get the quote wrong. ~ actually, everybody got the gist of his post, so who cares? It works even less if you spell your nitpicking wrong ;)
I actually find myself playing RPGs now, which I never had any desire to play before.... Thank goodness Neverwinter Nights is a good enough mix of the two to keep me busy for months (at least) to come!
The people I'm working with have been receiving these faxes for YEARS, but no one ever thought to call the company to get them to stop.
Didn't Arnold Schwarzenegger do Batman (whichever one he was in) VERY shortly after recovering from heart surgery? Minor back pain? Gimme a break. Either they're mincing on how badly hurt he was, or he's a wuss. Take your pick.
Julia Roberts - nuff said.
M*A*S*H never replaced an actor - they replaced CHARACTERS (often with just-as-lovable, just-as-amusing characters). That's a big difference. Bewitched, however, was just wrong. Ole Durwood should have stayed put.
My sister-in-law began having weird symptoms about three years ago. She was hospitalized, all kinds of tests were done on her, and so far, the only diagnosis she has is a tentative one of "High Anxiety Disorder" - a diagnosis we are not willing to accept without further investigation. Her symptoms came on her like a flash of lightning, and before her first "episode", she was a competent, contributing member of society who dealt with high- and low-stress situations very well.
Now, she can't work (because she never knows when she might have another episode), she shouldn't drive (but living in a rural area, she really has no choice). It's just baffling. She was transformed overnight from a strong, independent person to someone who experiences dissociative episodes, migraines, and who can never be left alone for more than a few hours.
Scary? You bet - but what can you do? I don't have a medical degree, and if I did, I still wouldn't know where to start - she's been tested for everything under the sun, and only when they ran out of things to test her for did they stick a psychological label on the mystery illness.
and maybe you meant forty?
Students and interns, however, got REAL OFFICES with DOORS and did NOT have to share! tell me, would you be bitter?
We wouldn't be implying that girls can't enjoy something like LOTR, would we? I (being female and thus qualified to interject) loved the movies, the book was great, and I'm actually in the habit of reading long fiction (by long I mean more than 500-600 pages). My girl-brain hasn't burned out yet....
That happens when a review of the book goes out saying "this book is crap, don't buy it" and it doesn't sell as well as the other books in the series. The publisher doesn't care if it's part of a series - if it doesn't sell well, they won't reprint.
Once he's old enough to surf, he will be allowed to do so only when one parent is present, and we will limit the amount and types of websites he can view. Right now, he is allowed to use a laptop which is not connected to the internet (or to our own network), but which has many preschool educational games installed on it. I doubt he's feeling the lack.
If we are responsible for raising our children, then we're responsible for what they read, what they watch, what they surf. We can't expect the government to babysit our kids for us (hell, we can't even expect the government to babysit incarcerated criminals for us sometimes!) - we gave birth to them, essentially, we created new life. That carries a pretty hefty responsibility with it. Suck it up and stop asking Uncle Sam (or Uncle Jean in my case) to raise your kids for you. jmho
My sole consolation is that my kids will feel exactly the same way 20 years from now :)
Added to that, there's the fact that a number of classic songs came out of that movie/musical.
Personally, I am an end-user and not a techie (right, so what am I doing here? don't ask!). Now, granted, I'm a tad more computer-savvy than the average end-user (having a disgustingly genius-like programmer for a husband helps), but even I fail to understand how tech staff can be so arrogant and condescending. Do the techs here think they can handle MY job? No? Then don't try to make me feel stupid for not being able to do THEIR job, which, in essence, is to help me use the technology I need to do my job.
Now I know that it's standard for techs to assume that the user is a moron, because, quite often, the user IS a moron. However, there are those of us who do have a slight clue what we're doing. So we can't understand root code, and we may not know what's wrong the first time our printer starts spewing out toner and blinking furiously, but that doesn't mean we're unintelligent or incapable of understanding.
I've never had training for any piece of software I've ever used, but I think I manage all right. I haven't had too many problems upgrading between different versions (I admit, it baffles me when the developer removes a certain feature for no apparent reason). All in all, even though I do basic checks before calling tech support to save them trouble, they tend to be even MORE annoyed when I seem to have a clue as to what I'm talking about. Seems they don't like knowledgeable users - it ruins their god-like image.
It's arrogant beyond belief to assume that all users are idiots. I know that's probably not what the parent post intended, but it's the end effect that counts. If you realize that your user isn't following quite as quickly as you're explaining, just slow down. Be patient. How would you have liked it if your grade two math teacher had just plowed through long division rather than explain it to you? Would you like it if someone pushed you away from your keyboard saying "Never mind, just let me do it"? The personal skills, with MOST tech support (not all, there are many good people out there), just aren't there. It's the truth. Deal with it.
The Prisoner still plays on (I think) Mystery or Deja View on Rogers digital cable - my mom comes over simply to watch all the old episodes.
He also said it after watching Homer's debut as Poochie on Itchy & Scratchy.