Climbing? On an ancient monument? One wonders how people can be so utterly idiotic. This thing has been there for thousands of years, put some effort in trying to comprehend it, to feel it, to imagine it. Sheesh.
No matter how hard I try to put myself into the shoes of people like these, I fail. I can generally see the world from other's POVs, but this type of thing just astonishes me.
Eh, why did you put your personal page's URL in the comment? I mean, you've got it up there under your name, if you really wanted it twice you could just put it in your signature.
You know, so we don't get the idea that the URL has anything to do with the topic of the story and comment. Unless that was the point, to get more traffic.
I have Unreal Championship for the Xbox (equivalent to UT2003, not UT2004), but I think the PC rendition is far better do to framerate, and of course modding. Pretty fun game, though it took them too long to get that first patch that removed FSAA in multiplayer (a good thing, it was a big speed increase) and fixed cheats.
Custom maps alone would even be fine for Xbox games. Many games have maps that are at most 50 megabytes. The 8GB hard drive could handle that well.
I know there is freeware, and a few of the specific ones that I like on the PC have been ported. Many (mostly the SDL ports, I think) tend to lack much in the way of 3d acceleration though, and since they're ports the original system (Windows/Linux) of course has far more. Freeware isn't really a huge point though.
Turn based strategy is no good with the console controllers =\, but I've played maybe one or two RTS console ports (on the N64 I think), and didn't think they were too bad control-wise.
Mice are great for first person shooters, though using the joypad doesn't annoy me too much since the game is geared towards it, and most other people use it. It's more comfortable/relaxing to use, I think.
Resolution is a huge issue for strategy games on consoles, and for most other games as well. Many Xbox games work in HD, but that's not all too helpful for people that don't have such a TV (or who have a game that doesn't support it). Nice CRT computer monitors can often be purchased for under $200, HD televisions cost a fair deal more. Much of the clarity will go to waste on those too, seeing as console games are geared towards lower resolution displays.
Reviewers often apply scores to games, while completely ignoring the game's replayability factor. Others do talk about that, but often say junk along the lines of "the game lets you be good or evil, and gives you two endings!!". Wow! It doesn't make me want to play through the whole thing a second time, but that sure is neat!
I won't pay $50+ for a game that only lasts a few hours and it done. Similarily, games I play need depth (contributing to replayability), usually some sort of modding ability, and a good replayable multiplayer, skirmish, or sandbox mode.
Quite often I find reviews ignoring or downplaying things like this, talking about the game as if it was a movie that one could pay $7 and watch at a theater or rent. I can rent many games, but that doesn't work so well on the PC.
Crud, I messed the other comment up. Please ignore, really, just ignore it. It shouldn't be hard with that huge, unformatted mass anyways.
75% of what's decent?
I play lots of RTS's that won't ever get on the Xbox, what with the fact that consoles rarely ever get traditional real-time strategy games. I really wouldn't mind playing them with a controller and low-res TV. Empire Earth 2, Age of Empires 3, these are two to look out for on the PC (blah blah, sequels, blah blah).
There are FPS's that likely won't get on the Xbox. What good FPS games are going to be / were ported? I don't care for Doom 3. The Tribes games, UT200X, Battlefield *, and Half-life 2 won't likely get ported, and if by some chance they do I would bet against modding and mapping working. I like modding, and the Xbox has a dang hard drive.
RPGs? Xbox is doing okay in this department. KOTOR 1 and 2 are there, and Jade Empire is coming (yay Bioware). Morrowind was released on the console, but lacking the ability for mods and such wasn't so good. Other than those, the only RPGs I've cared for "recently" are NWN and Guildwars. Xbox would rock if it had Guildwars.
No proper flight simulators on the Xbox, nor realistic combat flight sims.
Freeware? No freeware =(. I've had fun recently with some free / open source games, such as the free ones from ABA Games. Fun fun.
And, of course, NO MODS / CUSTOM MAPS. Blar. I play mods and custom maps on many of my games, and they increase the playability by a huge amount.
75% of what's decent?
I play lots of RTS's that won't ever get on the Xbox, what with the fact that consoles rarely ever get traditional real-time strategy games. I really wouldn't mind playing them with a controller and low-res TV. Empire Earth 2, Age of Empires 3, these are two to look out for on the PC (blah blah, sequels, blah blah).
There are FPS's that likely won't get on the Xbox. What good FPS games are going to be / were ported? I don't care for Doom 3. The Tribes games, UT200X, Battlefield *, and Half-life 2 won't likely get ported, and if by some chance they do I would bet against modding and mapping working. I like modding, and the Xbox has a dang hard drive.
RPGs? Xbox is doing okay in this department. KOTOR 1 and 2 are there, and Jade Empire is coming (yay Bioware). Morrowind was released on the console, but lacking the ability for mods and such wasn't so good. Other than those, the only RPGs I've cared for "recently" are NWN and Guildwars. Xbox would rock if it had Guildwars.
No proper flight simulators on the Xbox, nor realistic combat flight sims.
Freeware? No freeware =(. I've had fun recently with some free / open source games, such as the free ones from ABA Games. Fun fun.
And, of course, NO MODS / CUSTOM MAPS. Blar. I play mods and custom maps on many of my games, and they increase the playability by a huge amount.
I'd predict males would lose usefulness first. I mean, sexually speaking, we only fertilize the women. Human cloning is becoming a closer and closer reality. I would bet that scientists could one day figure out how to join the DNA of two individuals in a way like the fertilization process, plunk that into an egg cell, and impregnate a woman with it. It would be great for the lesbian couples, and with enough time it would have a potential of replacing the whole usefulness of men in the continuation of the species.
And then, I may just be reading too much sci-fi.
I doubt he's underscoring it. At that, there were only 7 or so others HL2 could have been eligable for. Not a bad showing.
Personally, Half-life 2, while quite fun, has a limited amount of playability until the good multiplayer mods start coming out. A good single player campaign is nice and all, but once that's done, you need something else, especially with the price of games.
This AC isn't completely off. There's a certain feeling attached with "cartoons" over here, and even anime what with the Pokemon / kiddy anime* phenomenon. Many adults simply don't take them seriously.
*kiddy anime including those which have been so dumbed down for the "sensitive" audience over here that most only kids watch them
I don't see why that's so. Many series that I like have, say, 30 episodes per season. At $1/episode, that's only $30 (obviously). The DVD releases, however, are often $80 and higher because they include bonus footage that I don't necessarily want.
At that, if you simply buy on DVD, you don't get the latest shows right away. That could be a problem for many people.
I like that it has
"AaronH copies and pastes:"
However, as clicking on AaronH's name leads to the home page for SS:2845, my favorite upcoming mod for any game, I for some reason find myself not minding it much. Hmmm.
Cydoor can and will, unfortunately, run while eXeem is closed. I have no problems with programs using built in ads, but when the ad provider stays running and downloading/monitoring constantly, something is wrong.
The article isn't talking about 24K mp3 streams, jeez. That's just painful. No, the article is talking about AACPlus, which sounds incredibly nice at even lower bitrates. I mean, 64K sounds like a 160 MP3, and with 98K+ you can get full 5.1 surround.
They used to have a couple of pre-recorded, looping surround streams on tuner2.com, one of a jazz concert and the other one with creepy synthesized music. They sounded great.
Gamespy has a far more comprehensive list of good games coming out this year, covering many genres and platforms and whatnot. While I don't necessarily agree with the order they put them in, my favorites all seem to be here.
This game has one of the most fun console multiplayer games that I have experienced. I don't usually like the online console games much, mostly due to their lack of depth and modding and such compared to PC games, but this is quite fun. It plays without much lag (racing games always seem to have a bit, but this is extremely mild compared to others), and taking down friends online is a blast.
The game modes are pretty fun too, like the team game where one team runs and they other tries to catch up and take them down. I've managed to find a few games with really sensible people, and we set the runners' cars on the lowest class and the rest of us on a class or two higher. Terrific fun.
The normal 128MB FX5200 can be found for under $100, I've seen it at $60 USD. Compared to ATI equivalents, the FX series (except for the top end) is poor at advanced DX9 stuff (ie. PS2.0)
Part of what opera seems to do with magnification is that it can magnify almost everything on the page. That includes the layout (tables, css), the pictures, the text, etc. Firefox just increases font size normally.
Not to mention the comedy, much of which is geared towards Canadians, and really isn't comprehended by anyone else.
The Red Green Show - The masters of duct tape This Hour Has 22 Minutes - Hilarious satire, parodies, sketches, etc. They often talk to the people in question too, which is very funny. Royal Canadian Air Farce - More satire, sketches, etc. Not as funny as 22 Minutes, but it's still good.
And others you didn't mention:
This is Wonderland - An excellent show dealing with the lower criminal courts. It focuses much more on the people, more so than the crime. It's funny, dramatic, etc. New season starts on the 25th I think. Da Vinci's Inquest - Character is a Vancouver coroner Dominic Da Vinci, the stories are always quite good, more than often dark, and intrigue me far mor than the likes of CSI, L&O, etc.
The ghosting is like a blur caused by the pixels refreshing slowly, and is especially problematic in any FPS, racer, faster flight simulators, and games with a fair amount of contrast; ie. space sims, that poor weakening genre that I love =(
It does have an effect on television, but certainly to a lesser degree because of the limited motion onscreen (unless of course it is a cheap LCD). The LCDs, or at least the expensive ones, are progressing to a point where many people don't notice the ghosting. I certainly do though, and can't really stand gaming on LCD monitors.
I personally like Stellarium. It may not be as comprehensive, but is available for Windows and OS X, as well as Linux. Not to mention it has pretty constellation art, looks very nice as a whole, and is quite easy to use. It is GPL'd too.
"Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope."
I am 16. I was probably around 12 when I first played GTA2, and I played Quake and Doom 2 before that (= 10). I've never even considered committing a crime, I listen to classical music, I don't smoke or anything, and I'm incredibly non-violent.
What I think is that a game simply has the potential to unleash (or help unleash) certain disturbing tendencies in a person. These already exist, it's just the way the person was born and raised.
Sheltering them from games is probably not the best answer. It punishes the others who can keep their sense of reality, and it only patches over the existing problem. The best bet is likely proper parenting, teaching the child from an early age that violence is not the way, etc.
In Manitoba, Canada, we too have television over DSL. This is from the main telephone provider, MTS. Quite frankly, the quality does look blocky compared to cable, and satellite even. However, the "all digital" line seems to get most people.
Spoofstick simply removes any tricky usernames/passwords or subdomains that would trick some users. So, ebay.phishing.com is shown as phishing.com, and ebay.ca/login.php@newb.com is shown as newb.com. Spoofstick can not handle an exploit like this since the address bar would actually show citibank.com, without anything extra.
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Climbing? On an ancient monument? One wonders how people can be so utterly idiotic. This thing has been there for thousands of years, put some effort in trying to comprehend it, to feel it, to imagine it. Sheesh.
No matter how hard I try to put myself into the shoes of people like these, I fail. I can generally see the world from other's POVs, but this type of thing just astonishes me.
Eh, why did you put your personal page's URL in the comment? I mean, you've got it up there under your name, if you really wanted it twice you could just put it in your signature.
You know, so we don't get the idea that the URL has anything to do with the topic of the story and comment. Unless that was the point, to get more traffic.
I have Unreal Championship for the Xbox (equivalent to UT2003, not UT2004), but I think the PC rendition is far better do to framerate, and of course modding. Pretty fun game, though it took them too long to get that first patch that removed FSAA in multiplayer (a good thing, it was a big speed increase) and fixed cheats.
Custom maps alone would even be fine for Xbox games. Many games have maps that are at most 50 megabytes. The 8GB hard drive could handle that well.
I know there is freeware, and a few of the specific ones that I like on the PC have been ported. Many (mostly the SDL ports, I think) tend to lack much in the way of 3d acceleration though, and since they're ports the original system (Windows/Linux) of course has far more. Freeware isn't really a huge point though.
Turn based strategy is no good with the console controllers =\, but I've played maybe one or two RTS console ports (on the N64 I think), and didn't think they were too bad control-wise.
Mice are great for first person shooters, though using the joypad doesn't annoy me too much since the game is geared towards it, and most other people use it. It's more comfortable/relaxing to use, I think.
Resolution is a huge issue for strategy games on consoles, and for most other games as well. Many Xbox games work in HD, but that's not all too helpful for people that don't have such a TV (or who have a game that doesn't support it). Nice CRT computer monitors can often be purchased for under $200, HD televisions cost a fair deal more. Much of the clarity will go to waste on those too, seeing as console games are geared towards lower resolution displays.
Reviewers often apply scores to games, while completely ignoring the game's replayability factor. Others do talk about that, but often say junk along the lines of "the game lets you be good or evil, and gives you two endings!!". Wow! It doesn't make me want to play through the whole thing a second time, but that sure is neat! I won't pay $50+ for a game that only lasts a few hours and it done. Similarily, games I play need depth (contributing to replayability), usually some sort of modding ability, and a good replayable multiplayer, skirmish, or sandbox mode. Quite often I find reviews ignoring or downplaying things like this, talking about the game as if it was a movie that one could pay $7 and watch at a theater or rent. I can rent many games, but that doesn't work so well on the PC.
Crud, I messed the other comment up. Please ignore, really, just ignore it. It shouldn't be hard with that huge, unformatted mass anyways. 75% of what's decent? I play lots of RTS's that won't ever get on the Xbox, what with the fact that consoles rarely ever get traditional real-time strategy games. I really wouldn't mind playing them with a controller and low-res TV. Empire Earth 2, Age of Empires 3, these are two to look out for on the PC (blah blah, sequels, blah blah). There are FPS's that likely won't get on the Xbox. What good FPS games are going to be / were ported? I don't care for Doom 3. The Tribes games, UT200X, Battlefield *, and Half-life 2 won't likely get ported, and if by some chance they do I would bet against modding and mapping working. I like modding, and the Xbox has a dang hard drive. RPGs? Xbox is doing okay in this department. KOTOR 1 and 2 are there, and Jade Empire is coming (yay Bioware). Morrowind was released on the console, but lacking the ability for mods and such wasn't so good. Other than those, the only RPGs I've cared for "recently" are NWN and Guildwars. Xbox would rock if it had Guildwars. No proper flight simulators on the Xbox, nor realistic combat flight sims. Freeware? No freeware =(. I've had fun recently with some free / open source games, such as the free ones from ABA Games. Fun fun. And, of course, NO MODS / CUSTOM MAPS. Blar. I play mods and custom maps on many of my games, and they increase the playability by a huge amount.
75% of what's decent? I play lots of RTS's that won't ever get on the Xbox, what with the fact that consoles rarely ever get traditional real-time strategy games. I really wouldn't mind playing them with a controller and low-res TV. Empire Earth 2, Age of Empires 3, these are two to look out for on the PC (blah blah, sequels, blah blah). There are FPS's that likely won't get on the Xbox. What good FPS games are going to be / were ported? I don't care for Doom 3. The Tribes games, UT200X, Battlefield *, and Half-life 2 won't likely get ported, and if by some chance they do I would bet against modding and mapping working. I like modding, and the Xbox has a dang hard drive. RPGs? Xbox is doing okay in this department. KOTOR 1 and 2 are there, and Jade Empire is coming (yay Bioware). Morrowind was released on the console, but lacking the ability for mods and such wasn't so good. Other than those, the only RPGs I've cared for "recently" are NWN and Guildwars. Xbox would rock if it had Guildwars. No proper flight simulators on the Xbox, nor realistic combat flight sims. Freeware? No freeware =(. I've had fun recently with some free / open source games, such as the free ones from ABA Games. Fun fun. And, of course, NO MODS / CUSTOM MAPS. Blar. I play mods and custom maps on many of my games, and they increase the playability by a huge amount.
I'd predict males would lose usefulness first. I mean, sexually speaking, we only fertilize the women. Human cloning is becoming a closer and closer reality. I would bet that scientists could one day figure out how to join the DNA of two individuals in a way like the fertilization process, plunk that into an egg cell, and impregnate a woman with it. It would be great for the lesbian couples, and with enough time it would have a potential of replacing the whole usefulness of men in the continuation of the species. And then, I may just be reading too much sci-fi.
I doubt he's underscoring it. At that, there were only 7 or so others HL2 could have been eligable for. Not a bad showing.
Personally, Half-life 2, while quite fun, has a limited amount of playability until the good multiplayer mods start coming out. A good single player campaign is nice and all, but once that's done, you need something else, especially with the price of games.
I just overused The Great Comma. Oh well.
This AC isn't completely off. There's a certain feeling attached with "cartoons" over here, and even anime what with the Pokemon / kiddy anime* phenomenon. Many adults simply don't take them seriously. *kiddy anime including those which have been so dumbed down for the "sensitive" audience over here that most only kids watch them
I don't see why that's so. Many series that I like have, say, 30 episodes per season. At $1/episode, that's only $30 (obviously). The DVD releases, however, are often $80 and higher because they include bonus footage that I don't necessarily want.
At that, if you simply buy on DVD, you don't get the latest shows right away. That could be a problem for many people.
I like that it has "AaronH copies and pastes:" However, as clicking on AaronH's name leads to the home page for SS:2845, my favorite upcoming mod for any game, I for some reason find myself not minding it much. Hmmm.
Eh, the official page has a link to a torrent in its "downloads" page.
And that link is here.
Cydoor can and will, unfortunately, run while eXeem is closed. I have no problems with programs using built in ads, but when the ad provider stays running and downloading/monitoring constantly, something is wrong.
The article isn't talking about 24K mp3 streams, jeez. That's just painful. No, the article is talking about AACPlus, which sounds incredibly nice at even lower bitrates. I mean, 64K sounds like a 160 MP3, and with 98K+ you can get full 5.1 surround.
They used to have a couple of pre-recorded, looping surround streams on tuner2.com, one of a jazz concert and the other one with creepy synthesized music. They sounded great.
Gamespy has a far more comprehensive list of good games coming out this year, covering many genres and platforms and whatnot. While I don't necessarily agree with the order they put them in, my favorites all seem to be here.
http://mostwanted.gamespy.com/2005/?ui=gstop1 (Working link)
This game has one of the most fun console multiplayer games that I have experienced. I don't usually like the online console games much, mostly due to their lack of depth and modding and such compared to PC games, but this is quite fun. It plays without much lag (racing games always seem to have a bit, but this is extremely mild compared to others), and taking down friends online is a blast.
The game modes are pretty fun too, like the team game where one team runs and they other tries to catch up and take them down. I've managed to find a few games with really sensible people, and we set the runners' cars on the lowest class and the rest of us on a class or two higher. Terrific fun.
Not exactly sure what's wrong with ATI...
The normal 128MB FX5200 can be found for under $100, I've seen it at $60 USD. Compared to ATI equivalents, the FX series (except for the top end) is poor at advanced DX9 stuff (ie. PS2.0)
Part of what opera seems to do with magnification is that it can magnify almost everything on the page. That includes the layout (tables, css), the pictures, the text, etc. Firefox just increases font size normally.
Weekly world news. Riiight.
Not to mention the comedy, much of which is geared towards Canadians, and really isn't comprehended by anyone else.
The Red Green Show - The masters of duct tape
This Hour Has 22 Minutes - Hilarious satire, parodies, sketches, etc. They often talk to the people in question too, which is very funny.
Royal Canadian Air Farce - More satire, sketches, etc. Not as funny as 22 Minutes, but it's still good.
And others you didn't mention:
This is Wonderland - An excellent show dealing with the lower criminal courts. It focuses much more on the people, more so than the crime. It's funny, dramatic, etc. New season starts on the 25th I think.
Da Vinci's Inquest - Character is a Vancouver coroner Dominic Da Vinci, the stories are always quite good, more than often dark, and intrigue me far mor than the likes of CSI, L&O, etc.
The ghosting is like a blur caused by the pixels refreshing slowly, and is especially problematic in any FPS, racer, faster flight simulators, and games with a fair amount of contrast; ie. space sims, that poor weakening genre that I love =(
It does have an effect on television, but certainly to a lesser degree because of the limited motion onscreen (unless of course it is a cheap LCD). The LCDs, or at least the expensive ones, are progressing to a point where many people don't notice the ghosting. I certainly do though, and can't really stand gaming on LCD monitors.
I personally like Stellarium. It may not be as comprehensive, but is available for Windows and OS X, as well as Linux. Not to mention it has pretty constellation art, looks very nice as a whole, and is quite easy to use. It is GPL'd too.
"Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope."
I am 16. I was probably around 12 when I first played GTA2, and I played Quake and Doom 2 before that (= 10). I've never even considered committing a crime, I listen to classical music, I don't smoke or anything, and I'm incredibly non-violent.
What I think is that a game simply has the potential to unleash (or help unleash) certain disturbing tendencies in a person. These already exist, it's just the way the person was born and raised.
Sheltering them from games is probably not the best answer. It punishes the others who can keep their sense of reality, and it only patches over the existing problem. The best bet is likely proper parenting, teaching the child from an early age that violence is not the way, etc.
In Manitoba, Canada, we too have television over DSL. This is from the main telephone provider, MTS. Quite frankly, the quality does look blocky compared to cable, and satellite even. However, the "all digital" line seems to get most people.
Spoofstick simply removes any tricky usernames/passwords or subdomains that would trick some users. So, ebay.phishing.com is shown as phishing.com, and ebay.ca/login.php@newb.com is shown as newb.com. Spoofstick can not handle an exploit like this since the address bar would actually show citibank.com, without anything extra.