...fails to do much more than explode prettily in the interested gamer's face.
Sorry, I have never really been all that excited to have anything explode prettily on my face, no matter how interested in it I was. This review, and game for that matter, gets a Brokeback Mountain award. Of course, I am a male gamer, so the female gamers out there may have a completely different view on the matter.
Yes, in case you were not paying attention, I just insulted male homosexuals and women inside of two sentences. The streak of celibacy continues!
"We don't want customers to be forced into buying something that isn't going to meet all their needs," said Barry Goffe, Microsoft's director of Windows client product management.
If you do not want to force comsumers into buying something that is not going to meet all their needs, then why force every consumer who buys a computer (DELL, Laptop, etc...not barebones) to also buy a license to your DRM encrusted, monopoly prolonging, memory leaking, privacy infringing, virus ridden software.
If the gun shop doesn't take the precautions required by law and someone steals guns to use in a crime then the gun shop is liable.
Okay, so the hospital is culpable to the point of which it violated a law which attests to a fascilities responsibility to secure itself against cyber attack. Is there such a law, is this enough reason to make such a law and do we want such a law that puts the onus on the attacked?
To bring up another example, a woman dressing provactively does not imply any culpability on her part if she gets raped. If an ICU suffers a crippling attack, human lives could be lost, so I think the example (as well as the firearms and motorvehicle examples) apply to this situation. The largest problem I forsee from a law like this would be to expect everyone else in the world to filter spam from their e-mail accounts instead of holding spammers responsible. Oh, wait, we already have to do that.
The radio was talking about this yesterday. (Well, not the magical box, but the tiny little people stuck inside.) The idiot left solitaire maximized and walked away from his desk. The mayor walks in and sees it on his screen. I propose the Greenwood Award. Most deserving removal from the working pool (as opposed to the gene pool.)
The basic idea of patents is to perturb the free market economy so that it does not stagnate. It does this by providing a reward for companies who produce and introduce new, innovative products into the economy. A patent provides a producer a measure of protection against a competitor cloning their product and gaining from the original producers research without cost. This would allow the competitor a much greater profit margin, enable them to undercut the producer and remove any incentive for innovation.
Patents were not introduced to allow a brain trust to think up thousands of ways to make a doorknob so they can sit back and demand royalties from companies that actually produce products for and item they have never built. That leads to companies sticking with old technology which stagnates the market. The complete opposite effect desired.
Take this example as you will: DVD vs BD/BD-DVD. The standard compression format on DVDs is 12 years old, MPEG2 (1994). The standard compression format on BD/HD-DVDs will be MPEG2. Other formats are supported, but the standard is MPEG2. Why not a format that is 8 years old, MPEG4 (1998)? So a new format is being generated and new media players will need to be bought all because a new format is necessary to carry all the new bits when using a TWELVE YEAR OLD TECHNOLOGY!
Consumers will eventually be forced to buy brand new media and brand new media players, so I guess the market is not stagnating. But if a player was produced that understood MPEG2 AND MPEG4, you would have a media player that could play both standard and HD content off the same media.
Hi hal2814, you can tell who I am by the name on my post. I was all about the cheap VHS tapes until I found the cheap DVDs. Walmart has a selection of $7 DVDs and sometimes has bins of $5 ones. You get bargain basement prices AND they rewind themselves instantly!
If someone could invent a pill like that, then I would not need cryogenics to expand my life. I could spend all 24 hours a day on activites. An extra six hours a day translates to 5 extra years of activity for every 2 decades of life. One would only need to get over the habit of sleeping.
I was having the same thought just before I sat down to watch "24." I get Cowboy Beebop and I feel immediately enveloped in the storyline. I am a real fan of Yoko Kano, though I cannot name any other anime with her music, I listen to a great deal of streaming anime radio. And yes, the relationship between Spike and Faye is much more entertaining than Spike and Julia. I really enjoy the Jet-Faye dynamic. There are instances in the show that feel like an episode of the Honeymooners, but with Jet exasperated by his account draining trophy wife.
I just do not get Samurai Champloo yet, however I have only seen a smattering of episodes. I connect with Gene, because I am not as primal as Muggen, but I have not figured him out yet. Foo just annoys me sometimes, but I love the innocence and inexperience she portrays. The last episode I saw involved the crew splitting up and comming back together with all believing the other gone forever in the middle. They all seemed a bit lost without each other.
A friend is providing me with a fan-subbed copy of Fullmetal Alchemist next. I am completely enamored with that show. The Ed and Al dynamic is perfect, right down to the bigger-little brother. I was heart broken at what happened to Nina. Alright, enough anime for this evening.
The box art of Ghost in the Shell introduced me to anime when I was 11 or 12 years old. The first anime (thought I had not idea it was anime, or Japanimation as we called it) I watched was Robotech. But GitS made me realize a serious, adult storyline could be expressed in animation. I have never choked on the psuedo-science and do not dwell on the power requirments, bandwidth requirements and machine-to-organic interfaces required by the show. As for silly suits, have you ever scene Aeon Flux's outfit of choice?
Cowboy Beebop is unquestionably one of the best serials of all time, anime or live action. The clincher for me is the music. The music in that series is incredible. It has been carefully written to be an itegral part of the storyline. Expressions, speeches and actions can take you on a ride, but nothing will get your heart pounding or your eyes tearing like the perfect music and the right instant in time. It is masterful.
I have been a bit dissapointed in Samurai Champloo. The music is great, but it does not do the same thing as Cowboy Beebop for me. The storylines are okay, there is some real humor and the animation is absolutely gorgeous, but it does nothing to envlop me in the experience as Cowboy Beebop did.
I suggest looking into Noir. There is no psuedo-science involved, just a couple of female assasins trying to solve the mystery of their identity before they are killed by the mafiaso. Madlax was created by the same person and follows a female mercenary working in a warzone. There is a secondary (and possibly tertiary) plot line, but I have not finished the series yet. Area 88 may also be up your alley, as it is about a group of fighter pilot vigilates and the wartime photographer contract to document them. Those three anime will not deluge you with any form of psuedo-science, have adult characters with adult relationships (Madlax continuously laments never being asked out on a date,) lots of action and pretty decent stories. If you like Vampire Hunter D, you would also like Hellsing and The Last Vampire.
I used to watch Dr. Who on PBS when I was in grade school. The fourth doctor is my personal favorite. He had a care-free, cavalier attitude about life but was quick to action when necessary! The floppy hat, the long scarf, the jelly babies!
Interfere? Of course we should interfere! Always do what you're best at, that's what I say. -- Doctor Who - Nightmare of Eden
The poster was using a little thing called exageration to make his point on harasment.
Notice the second sentence states "flirting." So replace "wink at me" with a bit more overt form of flirting, say "place a pubic hair on my can of Coke." Also, the penalty may have been a bit extreme, so replace "out the door [sic] immediatly" with "immediately enrolled in an sensitivity ropes course written by Oprah Winfrey and preside over by Lisa Lampanelli." (I do maintain that as hard as it can be to get fired by my employer, sexual herassment will put you on the fast track.)
Making these substutions result in the rational version you see below.
---
The sexual harassment thing itself is sexist. Try and accuse a female boss of flirting with you if you are a guy and see how far that takes you.
--Oh but she did place a pubic hair on my can of Coke!
--Whatever, she was just being nice/--Whatever she was just being funny
But if it is the other way around, the male will be enrolled in an sensitivity ropes course written by Oprah Winfrey and preside over by Lisa Lampanelli immediately, before anoyone can say "lawsuit".
--Oh but he placed a pubic hair on my can of Coke!
--WHAT???! He's LAMPANELLI'S BITCH NOW!
I am not saying that sexual harassment or racial bias should take place, but in efforts to stop it they've swung the pendulum the other way too far.
Remember, this is Sony. You know, the company that has developed an entirely new media format so that it can make millions in licensing fees and so we have to buy movies in a new format all over again. Question: Why create an enormous new format and then have the standard codec by MPEG2? Better question: Why have a new physical format at all if you have a newer compression algorithm, MPEG4, that has had a decade of mathematical refinement? Best question: Which format with Jenna choose to show off her assets in the future?
It should be plainly obvious to the astute gamer that consoles are reaching a point of diminishing returns. There will be no more quantum leaps in console hardware (NES -> SNES -> N64, PS1 -> PS2) in the near future. See Xbox360. Unfotunately, those in the know are completely overwhelmed by the unwashed masses who continue to shell over bucks to the parasitic sequel hosting media whore that is the Sony PS*. It will be very interesting to compare the latest developed PS2 games with the early PS3 games. I predict the next game market crash (another one is coming) will occur when an end-of-life-cycle console title looks and plays better than a next generation title. The Xbox to Xbox360 is already dangerously close to this situation.
This article mysteriously made its way to the front page. In Games, this article is feesible. On the front page? Well, it does come right after the article on 5,000+ software bugs found this year.
Does anyone else see the irony in an article about number of unique hits on a portal being hosted on that portal? Forget about proclaiming yourself as great and writing an article about youself in your own newspaper. This is an insidious way to generate more hits!
This is a key fact to keep in mind. The preliminary development kits were actually tweaked 'Cube kits. I cannot speak to the fulfledged dev kits, but they should be very similar in practice. Nintendo is hoping to see their efforts at courting to third party vendors to start coming to fruition here. If it is easy to develop for, third party vendors will develop for it, right? This generation should begin to answer that question.
Early release games are always inferior to late lifecycle games. This is partially due to the learning curve inherent in new development kits. If a developer has learned the 'Cube dev kit, they should be able to easily come up to speed on a Revolution dev kit. Hardware optimizations will take some time. This could also explain why the current 360 games are so similar to current Xbox games. The development kits must have changed drastically from one console to the next. It is an entirely different chipset. I am making some assumptions and have no personal experience with either dev kit.
As for the controller, if you have not read about the controller shells that will be available for the control stick, you have not business commenting on any story about Next Generation consoles. I am sure a Wavebird shell, 360 shell and a Dual Shock shell (or something very similar to each, probably released by MadCatz or someone similar) will be available soon after the console launch. Ironically enough, the Revoltion may have a traditional Playstation controller before the PS3 if Sony sticks with that boomerang design.
I always liked the N64 controller. It was big enough for my ginormous bear paws.
I will throw in a great big Me Too. Gaim makes things so much easier, especially since I do not need an add on to sign in to my multiple AOL IM screenames, not to mention my MSN, Google Talk and Yahoo! Does the Google talk voice chat work under gaim yet?
One gaim to rule them all,
One gaim to find them,
One gaim to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them
Or they simply cater to a much less mainstream taste, such as literary or arts programs. Just because something isn't to your taste (or mine) doesn't make it "useless beef".
Actually, if it isn't to my taste and I'm paying for it, it's useless beef. Let the people with fringe interests pay for it.
It finally happened. Someone described literary and arts programming as useless beef. (Personally, I find no beef worthless. It is all tasty to me, but I guess some have forgotten they have canines.) I guess it was inevitable that the arts and history programming would become relegated to fringe interests. I mean, no one watches Biography or Modern Marvels anymore. History Channel, anyone? Beuler...Beuler? I guess that is why Criss Angel:Mindfreak and Inked are on A&E.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
-Someone much smarter than myself
What does this mean for the console wars? Sony was able to take the lead when the largest number of sheep started buy consoles. The drones and dregs only know the names Sony and Playstation. Need further proof? We game in sequel city. Seriously, how many versions of Madden can one person own?
Nintendo will retain its niche and possibly carve a new one, Microsoft will throw more money into the hole and everyone will think those silly boomerang controllers are the next best thing to sliced bread. I hope I am wrong, but...
In the US, willful inaction by first party that results in the death of second individual, when first knows knows inaction will cause second party's death is classified as Manslaughter. In this case, first party not submitting any form of assistance is negligence on the first party's part. I have no idea if there is a parallel to this in British law. He is still a bloody bastard if he refuses to provide assistance to the millions of people suffering in Africa (not the US, because everyone hates us now.)
Oh, yeah, IANAL.
I'd wager that people at EA are treated/better/ than at many other game companies.
Why? True, one data point cannot be trusted as represetative of an entire system. If LA was an aberration from the norm, that in no way implies the EA norm is that much better than there rest of the world. Just because they cleaned it up does not imply this, either. It was a PR mess. What led you to that conclusion?
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...fails to do much more than explode prettily in the interested gamer's face.
Sorry, I have never really been all that excited to have anything explode prettily on my face, no matter how interested in it I was. This review, and game for that matter, gets a Brokeback Mountain award. Of course, I am a male gamer, so the female gamers out there may have a completely different view on the matter.
Yes, in case you were not paying attention, I just insulted male homosexuals and women inside of two sentences. The streak of celibacy continues!
"We don't want customers to be forced into buying something that isn't going to meet all their needs," said Barry Goffe, Microsoft's director of Windows client product management.
If you do not want to force comsumers into buying something that is not going to meet all their needs, then why force every consumer who buys a computer (DELL, Laptop, etc...not barebones) to also buy a license to your DRM encrusted, monopoly prolonging, memory leaking, privacy infringing, virus ridden software.
And I use the term software in the loosest sense.
If the gun shop doesn't take the precautions required by law and someone steals guns to use in a crime then the gun shop is liable.
Okay, so the hospital is culpable to the point of which it violated a law which attests to a fascilities responsibility to secure itself against cyber attack. Is there such a law, is this enough reason to make such a law and do we want such a law that puts the onus on the attacked?
To bring up another example, a woman dressing provactively does not imply any culpability on her part if she gets raped. If an ICU suffers a crippling attack, human lives could be lost, so I think the example (as well as the firearms and motorvehicle examples) apply to this situation. The largest problem I forsee from a law like this would be to expect everyone else in the world to filter spam from their e-mail accounts instead of holding spammers responsible. Oh, wait, we already have to do that.
(Sorry, I think the bitterness filter is busted.)
The radio was talking about this yesterday. (Well, not the magical box, but the tiny little people stuck inside.) The idiot left solitaire maximized and walked away from his desk. The mayor walks in and sees it on his screen. I propose the Greenwood Award. Most deserving removal from the working pool (as opposed to the gene pool.)
The basic idea of patents is to perturb the free market economy so that it does not stagnate. It does this by providing a reward for companies who produce and introduce new, innovative products into the economy. A patent provides a producer a measure of protection against a competitor cloning their product and gaining from the original producers research without cost. This would allow the competitor a much greater profit margin, enable them to undercut the producer and remove any incentive for innovation.
Patents were not introduced to allow a brain trust to think up thousands of ways to make a doorknob so they can sit back and demand royalties from companies that actually produce products for and item they have never built. That leads to companies sticking with old technology which stagnates the market. The complete opposite effect desired.
Take this example as you will: DVD vs BD/BD-DVD. The standard compression format on DVDs is 12 years old, MPEG2 (1994). The standard compression format on BD/HD-DVDs will be MPEG2. Other formats are supported, but the standard is MPEG2. Why not a format that is 8 years old, MPEG4 (1998)? So a new format is being generated and new media players will need to be bought all because a new format is necessary to carry all the new bits when using a TWELVE YEAR OLD TECHNOLOGY!
Consumers will eventually be forced to buy brand new media and brand new media players, so I guess the market is not stagnating. But if a player was produced that understood MPEG2 AND MPEG4, you would have a media player that could play both standard and HD content off the same media.
Let the nitpicking begin...
Hi hal2814, you can tell who I am by the name on my post. I was all about the cheap VHS tapes until I found the cheap DVDs. Walmart has a selection of $7 DVDs and sometimes has bins of $5 ones. You get bargain basement prices AND they rewind themselves instantly!
If someone could invent a pill like that, then I would not need cryogenics to expand my life. I could spend all 24 hours a day on activites. An extra six hours a day translates to 5 extra years of activity for every 2 decades of life. One would only need to get over the habit of sleeping.
I was having the same thought just before I sat down to watch "24." I get Cowboy Beebop and I feel immediately enveloped in the storyline. I am a real fan of Yoko Kano, though I cannot name any other anime with her music, I listen to a great deal of streaming anime radio. And yes, the relationship between Spike and Faye is much more entertaining than Spike and Julia. I really enjoy the Jet-Faye dynamic. There are instances in the show that feel like an episode of the Honeymooners, but with Jet exasperated by his account draining trophy wife.
I just do not get Samurai Champloo yet, however I have only seen a smattering of episodes. I connect with Gene, because I am not as primal as Muggen, but I have not figured him out yet. Foo just annoys me sometimes, but I love the innocence and inexperience she portrays. The last episode I saw involved the crew splitting up and comming back together with all believing the other gone forever in the middle. They all seemed a bit lost without each other.
A friend is providing me with a fan-subbed copy of Fullmetal Alchemist next. I am completely enamored with that show. The Ed and Al dynamic is perfect, right down to the bigger-little brother. I was heart broken at what happened to Nina. Alright, enough anime for this evening.
The box art of Ghost in the Shell introduced me to anime when I was 11 or 12 years old. The first anime (thought I had not idea it was anime, or Japanimation as we called it) I watched was Robotech. But GitS made me realize a serious, adult storyline could be expressed in animation. I have never choked on the psuedo-science and do not dwell on the power requirments, bandwidth requirements and machine-to-organic interfaces required by the show. As for silly suits, have you ever scene Aeon Flux's outfit of choice?
Cowboy Beebop is unquestionably one of the best serials of all time, anime or live action. The clincher for me is the music. The music in that series is incredible. It has been carefully written to be an itegral part of the storyline. Expressions, speeches and actions can take you on a ride, but nothing will get your heart pounding or your eyes tearing like the perfect music and the right instant in time. It is masterful.
I have been a bit dissapointed in Samurai Champloo. The music is great, but it does not do the same thing as Cowboy Beebop for me. The storylines are okay, there is some real humor and the animation is absolutely gorgeous, but it does nothing to envlop me in the experience as Cowboy Beebop did.
I suggest looking into Noir. There is no psuedo-science involved, just a couple of female assasins trying to solve the mystery of their identity before they are killed by the mafiaso. Madlax was created by the same person and follows a female mercenary working in a warzone. There is a secondary (and possibly tertiary) plot line, but I have not finished the series yet. Area 88 may also be up your alley, as it is about a group of fighter pilot vigilates and the wartime photographer contract to document them. Those three anime will not deluge you with any form of psuedo-science, have adult characters with adult relationships (Madlax continuously laments never being asked out on a date,) lots of action and pretty decent stories. If you like Vampire Hunter D, you would also like Hellsing and The Last Vampire.
I used to watch Dr. Who on PBS when I was in grade school. The fourth doctor is my personal favorite. He had a care-free, cavalier attitude about life but was quick to action when necessary! The floppy hat, the long scarf, the jelly babies!
The poster was using a little thing called exageration to make his point on harasment.
Notice the second sentence states "flirting." So replace "wink at me" with a bit more overt form of flirting, say "place a pubic hair on my can of Coke." Also, the penalty may have been a bit extreme, so replace "out the door [sic] immediatly" with "immediately enrolled in an sensitivity ropes course written by Oprah Winfrey and preside over by Lisa Lampanelli." (I do maintain that as hard as it can be to get fired by my employer, sexual herassment will put you on the fast track.)
Making these substutions result in the rational version you see below.
---
The sexual harassment thing itself is sexist. Try and accuse a female boss of flirting with you if you are a guy and see how far that takes you.
--Oh but she did place a pubic hair on my can of Coke!
--Whatever, she was just being nice/--Whatever she was just being funny
But if it is the other way around, the male will be enrolled in an sensitivity ropes course written by Oprah Winfrey and preside over by Lisa Lampanelli immediately, before anoyone can say "lawsuit".
--Oh but he placed a pubic hair on my can of Coke!
--WHAT???! He's LAMPANELLI'S BITCH NOW!
I am not saying that sexual harassment or racial bias should take place, but in efforts to stop it they've swung the pendulum the other way too far.
Remember, this is Sony. You know, the company that has developed an entirely new media format so that it can make millions in licensing fees and so we have to buy movies in a new format all over again. Question: Why create an enormous new format and then have the standard codec by MPEG2? Better question: Why have a new physical format at all if you have a newer compression algorithm, MPEG4, that has had a decade of mathematical refinement? Best question: Which format with Jenna choose to show off her assets in the future?
It should be plainly obvious to the astute gamer that consoles are reaching a point of diminishing returns. There will be no more quantum leaps in console hardware (NES -> SNES -> N64, PS1 -> PS2) in the near future. See Xbox360. Unfotunately, those in the know are completely overwhelmed by the unwashed masses who continue to shell over bucks to the parasitic sequel hosting media whore that is the Sony PS*. It will be very interesting to compare the latest developed PS2 games with the early PS3 games. I predict the next game market crash (another one is coming) will occur when an end-of-life-cycle console title looks and plays better than a next generation title. The Xbox to Xbox360 is already dangerously close to this situation.
I am tired.
This article mysteriously made its way to the front page. In Games, this article is feesible. On the front page? Well, it does come right after the article on 5,000+ software bugs found this year.
Mods, are you serious? That is hilarious!
Does anyone else see the irony in an article about number of unique hits on a portal being hosted on that portal? Forget about proclaiming yourself as great and writing an article about youself in your own newspaper. This is an insidious way to generate more hits!
Bad form, Taco. Bad form...
According to the Nintendo mastermind (psssst, Miyamoto!), Revolution software development can take place on existing GameCube development kits.
This is a key fact to keep in mind. The preliminary development kits were actually tweaked 'Cube kits. I cannot speak to the fulfledged dev kits, but they should be very similar in practice. Nintendo is hoping to see their efforts at courting to third party vendors to start coming to fruition here. If it is easy to develop for, third party vendors will develop for it, right? This generation should begin to answer that question.
Early release games are always inferior to late lifecycle games. This is partially due to the learning curve inherent in new development kits. If a developer has learned the 'Cube dev kit, they should be able to easily come up to speed on a Revolution dev kit. Hardware optimizations will take some time. This could also explain why the current 360 games are so similar to current Xbox games. The development kits must have changed drastically from one console to the next. It is an entirely different chipset. I am making some assumptions and have no personal experience with either dev kit.
As for the controller, if you have not read about the controller shells that will be available for the control stick, you have not business commenting on any story about Next Generation consoles. I am sure a Wavebird shell, 360 shell and a Dual Shock shell (or something very similar to each, probably released by MadCatz or someone similar) will be available soon after the console launch. Ironically enough, the Revoltion may have a traditional Playstation controller before the PS3 if Sony sticks with that boomerang design.
I always liked the N64 controller. It was big enough for my ginormous bear paws.
I will throw in a great big Me Too. Gaim makes things so much easier, especially since I do not need an add on to sign in to my multiple AOL IM screenames, not to mention my MSN, Google Talk and Yahoo! Does the Google talk voice chat work under gaim yet?
One gaim to rule them all,
One gaim to find them,
One gaim to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them
(Sorry, slow day at work.)
Or they simply cater to a much less mainstream taste, such as literary or arts programs. Just because something isn't to your taste (or mine) doesn't make it "useless beef".
Actually, if it isn't to my taste and I'm paying for it, it's useless beef. Let the people with fringe interests pay for it.
It finally happened. Someone described literary and arts programming as useless beef. (Personally, I find no beef worthless. It is all tasty to me, but I guess some have forgotten they have canines.) I guess it was inevitable that the arts and history programming would become relegated to fringe interests. I mean, no one watches Biography or Modern Marvels anymore. History Channel, anyone? Beuler...Beuler? I guess that is why Criss Angel:Mindfreak and Inked are on A&E.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
-Someone much smarter than myself
What does this mean for the console wars? Sony was able to take the lead when the largest number of sheep started buy consoles. The drones and dregs only know the names Sony and Playstation. Need further proof? We game in sequel city. Seriously, how many versions of Madden can one person own?
Nintendo will retain its niche and possibly carve a new one, Microsoft will throw more money into the hole and everyone will think those silly boomerang controllers are the next best thing to sliced bread. I hope I am wrong, but...
In the US, willful inaction by first party that results in the death of second individual, when first knows knows inaction will cause second party's death is classified as Manslaughter. In this case, first party not submitting any form of assistance is negligence on the first party's part. I have no idea if there is a parallel to this in British law. He is still a bloody bastard if he refuses to provide assistance to the millions of people suffering in Africa (not the US, because everyone hates us now.) Oh, yeah, IANAL.
I'd wager that people at EA are treated /better/ than at many other game companies.
Why? True, one data point cannot be trusted as represetative of an entire system. If LA was an aberration from the norm, that in no way implies the EA norm is that much better than there rest of the world. Just because they cleaned it up does not imply this, either. It was a PR mess. What led you to that conclusion?
"Had the decision been mine, we would not have built the space station we're building in the orbit we're building it in."
I hoped this implied he had his eyes on the Earth-Moon L4 and L5 points. The next step could be the Earth-Sun L4 and L5 points.
Just in case you have never heard of the Lagrangian Points.
But how could you not think of this?
Dr. S - The whole point of the doomsday machine is lost . . . if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, ay?!
If you have never played Mario64, Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask, you are missing out on some great games.