Ok, I gotta say it: Overlord post==joke When modding a joke, you: A. Mod it funny if you find it funny. B. Mod it overrated if you're tired of cliche jokes. C. Maybe mod it redundant if twenty people have already made it in the same thread.
In civil cort, it's not guilt or innocence, its preponderance of the evidence. If they *SAY* you're guilty, and you don't have any thing better than your word that says otherwise, you lose. Period. If they have a list of files you're sharing, you better have the files to prove they're kosher.
Sega dominated the console market, and just couldn't pull it off in the handheld market. Heck, some people say their efforts with the Game Gear and Sega CD sank the Genesis and let the SNES win out in the long run. Sony's got a fragile design behind them right now. I don't think they're going to end up with a system that can withstand the punishment a GBA can withstand (and gets inflicted on it regularly). I don't think the PSP will do nearly as bad as the N-Gage did, but ten years from now, I expect we'll all be talking about it like we talk about the Game Gear now. It was around for a while, it was kinda cool, and the Gameboy is still going.
Personally, the best thing I see here is that this might mean another drop in price on the GBA SP, which would be nice, since mine was recently damaged in a still-can't-beat-the-fucking-boss-related accident.
Yes, I can. The Xbox package had "The Elderscrolls III" just as prominently as the PC version, so I see no good reason for any Morrowind player not to realize that it's not the beginning of a series, but the latest installment in one.
Oooh, horseback:) I remember the valient attempts to make mods for Morrowind that would let you do this. They ranged from unplayable to not very good, unfortunately. Especially with the sheer SIZE of the world in Morrowind (and the slow walking speed of low leveled characters), it really needed an alternate form of transport besides the NPC-based safe travel network and just walking for hours on end.
Morrowind wasn't a straight console port. It was out for the PC a very long time before it was on the Xbox.
As for assignable shortcut keys: press F1 (I think, might be F2 or 3, I'd have to check), then you can put any useable or equippable item on the number keys FPS-style.
They've been working on TES4 for a long time. There was already talk about it on the elderscrolls.com message board a good 6 months ago when I first started following it off and on, and probably before that. They only picked up Fallout 3 a couple months ago, and they didn't get the nearly finished game Black Isle had made, so they're starting from scratch on it.
In 2002, I spent $150+ on DVDs, and $75 on movie tickets.
In 2003, I spent $85 on DVDs and $15 on movie tickets because I got sick of the MPAA's shit and only bought what I wanted bad enough to compromise my principles.
To date in 2004, I've spent $5 on two, used DVDs at a garage sale and not a dime on movie tickets because not only have they pissed me off, they haven't made anything good enough for me to compromise my very weak principles.
The fall-through-floors bug in Morrowind is insanely bad if you have a low-end graphics card for some reason. I get it constantly. However, they put a fix in for it originally. If it happens, and you get stuck somepalce (or getting stuck in a table, which also happens a good deal for me), open the console and type "fixme". It can take a couple times if you're stuck really good (like if you try to jump between the tops of the giant tree mushrooms and get stuck inside the trunk of one), but it'll get you back to a safe spot.
Guess you didn't do all the quests, heh. I must have about 350 hours into that, and I still can't find the NPCs for a couple minor quests. Of course, I also got bored and used the jail trick to max my character six ways from sunday to the point that I can kill just about anything in the game barefisted.
Valkyrie Profile was definitely a wonderful game. Too bad that so many people are graphics whores and can't get past the fact that its 2D.
And now I forget the point and start ranting: So many console RPG fans are also anime fans, and most console RPGs are based on some anime or anime-like theme. Anime is all 2D, but the console RPG fans bitch and moan and complain if an RPG is also 2D.
And now back on the point: I only had one complaint about VP: The stats were sickeningly high. I had about 50,000 hp by the end of the game, and close to twice that on a couple characters, and I had a sword with like 10,000 attack power, and I still had a few rough fights. Somebody really got carried away with the big numbers in this game.
I'd click the link to compare, but I have a policy of never clicking a link from somebody who has used the word Goatse. I'll just take your word for it.
As the other poster said, they have three redundant generators. This is an issue of serial failures, not lack of forsight.
Also, they're not in immediate danger because they have a Soyuz return capsule currently docked at the station. They'll abandon the station if the next flight up gets delayed dangerously long.
Great thing about where I live. Four PBS channels on cable, two of which are close enough for regular broadcast. Pretty rare event that less than two of them have any given program, and they almost always have different times.
I was, at first, but nothing I've heard has convinced me they've fixed what I thought was wrong with the original.
The framerates are still horrible, and possibly even worse now than before on everything, including the lowest-end 2D tetris-like games, the menu system is laid out like something I piled into a QBASIC program I cobbled up in middle school, and not a single game takes advantage of the vertical screen, and indeed they all seem to emphasize why the vertical screen is a hinderance because most of the action is along the horizontal axis. Frankly, it's still too expensive. If its flaws were as trivial as the GBA SP (i.e. no headphone jack), I would gladly pay $200, but they're not.
My first sitting at Sonic the Hedgehog on the Genesis, I made it through to the last boss. I've managed to get very far in every 2D Sonic game out-of-the-box, but when I played it on the N-Gage, I died eight times on the first level because the screen just isn't wide enough to react, and the frame rate isn't reliable enough to go all out if it was. The keys didn't respond as fast as I needed them too, either. The gummy, unresponsive keys aren't too bad on a cell phone, but once you put games in the equation, you better add fast responding controls.
The control pad is the only problem I haven't heard much about. Only one of the sources I've read mentioned it, and it said it was a very slight improvement from a very bad starting point.
All this is one thing, then we have the advertisements, which range from stupid or patronizing to outright insulting to the people they're supposedly targeting, and the company which either isn't taking this thing seriously, or expects the world to change its concept of gameing to fit their concept of a system.
Still waiting for the PSP. If anything will get my GBA moved from my pocket to my desk, that'll be it, but I'm not clearing a spot on my desk yet.
Frankly, I'm kind of surprised that NT was more stable than 2K and that XP was less stable.
The NT4 part was very suprising to me. I used to reboot my NT4 computer more than my Windows 98a one. However, XP doesn't suprise me. While the OS itself (if you strip out all the eye candy and useless processes) is probably at least as stable as 2k (I've had both stay up as long as my rather unreliable power grid does), but it's got a lot of crap added in that you can't easily disable that causes the bulk of crashes.
They get the same sort of copyright as music and movies. The ones that are on cartridges get the extra DMCA anticircumvention protection, since dumping the ROM off the cart is considered circumventing it's copy protection. Long run, when NES games start becomming pulic domain, I doubt I'll still have enough eyesight/hearing/reflexes/bladder control to enjoy them anymore.
Don't live in Michigan, eh? Around Saginaw, it's been regularly observed where people living near State Street and Mackinaw can be hit with a thunderstorm strong enough to blow out the windows on the Kessel's supermarket, and people at Hemeter and State (less than 1/2 mile away) have no rain, minimal wind, and can even see the sun. Those nowcasts are pretty useful, since I always know that whatever's hitting the business district on Brockway will usually hit where I am in a half hour or so.
Accross the internet, depending on where the middle man is, couldn't they also use a different route if the first attempt was interfered with? If multiple attempts accross a wide range of routes are tampered with, it would tend to suggest that the bad guy is somewhere where either end's traffic HAS to pass through, like in their network or at their ISP connection, in which case they have much worse things to worry about than a simple denial of service.
For XP, do you have home or Pro? I used to have Home, and had about a 1/5 major screwup rate, but with Pro, I get almost nothing unless I run it continuously for a few days, which I don't normally do anyway.
Actually, in the Christian chronology, the devil is not a destroyer. A trickster, seducer, temptor, etc, yes, but not a destroyer. Armageddon, Sodom and Gamorrah, Noah's Flood, etc. All the epochs of destruction were carried out by God. Noah's Flood is exactly the sort of role Shiva sometimes plays in Hindu myth, which includes the constant cycle of life and death (creation and destruction), but also epochs of massive destrucion used to eliminate something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
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Ok, I gotta say it:
Overlord post==joke
When modding a joke, you:
A. Mod it funny if you find it funny.
B. Mod it overrated if you're tired of cliche jokes.
C. Maybe mod it redundant if twenty people have already made it in the same thread.
Where do you get insightful in this?
In civil cort, it's not guilt or innocence, its preponderance of the evidence. If they *SAY* you're guilty, and you don't have any thing better than your word that says otherwise, you lose. Period. If they have a list of files you're sharing, you better have the files to prove they're kosher.
Sega dominated the console market, and just couldn't pull it off in the handheld market. Heck, some people say their efforts with the Game Gear and Sega CD sank the Genesis and let the SNES win out in the long run. Sony's got a fragile design behind them right now. I don't think they're going to end up with a system that can withstand the punishment a GBA can withstand (and gets inflicted on it regularly). I don't think the PSP will do nearly as bad as the N-Gage did, but ten years from now, I expect we'll all be talking about it like we talk about the Game Gear now. It was around for a while, it was kinda cool, and the Gameboy is still going.
Personally, the best thing I see here is that this might mean another drop in price on the GBA SP, which would be nice, since mine was recently damaged in a still-can't-beat-the-fucking-boss-related accident.
Yes, I can. The Xbox package had "The Elderscrolls III" just as prominently as the PC version, so I see no good reason for any Morrowind player not to realize that it's not the beginning of a series, but the latest installment in one.
Oooh, horseback:) I remember the valient attempts to make mods for Morrowind that would let you do this. They ranged from unplayable to not very good, unfortunately. Especially with the sheer SIZE of the world in Morrowind (and the slow walking speed of low leveled characters), it really needed an alternate form of transport besides the NPC-based safe travel network and just walking for hours on end.
Morrowind wasn't a straight console port. It was out for the PC a very long time before it was on the Xbox. As for assignable shortcut keys: press F1 (I think, might be F2 or 3, I'd have to check), then you can put any useable or equippable item on the number keys FPS-style.
They've been working on TES4 for a long time. There was already talk about it on the elderscrolls.com message board a good 6 months ago when I first started following it off and on, and probably before that. They only picked up Fallout 3 a couple months ago, and they didn't get the nearly finished game Black Isle had made, so they're starting from scratch on it.
In 2002, I spent $150+ on DVDs, and $75 on movie tickets.
In 2003, I spent $85 on DVDs and $15 on movie tickets because I got sick of the MPAA's shit and only bought what I wanted bad enough to compromise my principles.
To date in 2004, I've spent $5 on two, used DVDs at a garage sale and not a dime on movie tickets because not only have they pissed me off, they haven't made anything good enough for me to compromise my very weak principles.
The fall-through-floors bug in Morrowind is insanely bad if you have a low-end graphics card for some reason. I get it constantly. However, they put a fix in for it originally. If it happens, and you get stuck somepalce (or getting stuck in a table, which also happens a good deal for me), open the console and type "fixme". It can take a couple times if you're stuck really good (like if you try to jump between the tops of the giant tree mushrooms and get stuck inside the trunk of one), but it'll get you back to a safe spot.
Guess you didn't do all the quests, heh. I must have about 350 hours into that, and I still can't find the NPCs for a couple minor quests. Of course, I also got bored and used the jail trick to max my character six ways from sunday to the point that I can kill just about anything in the game barefisted.
they have a sense of humor about all the press
I hope they can still laugh when their sales figures come in.
Valkyrie Profile was definitely a wonderful game. Too bad that so many people are graphics whores and can't get past the fact that its 2D.
And now I forget the point and start ranting: So many console RPG fans are also anime fans, and most console RPGs are based on some anime or anime-like theme. Anime is all 2D, but the console RPG fans bitch and moan and complain if an RPG is also 2D.
And now back on the point: I only had one complaint about VP: The stats were sickeningly high. I had about 50,000 hp by the end of the game, and close to twice that on a couple characters, and I had a sword with like 10,000 attack power, and I still had a few rough fights. Somebody really got carried away with the big numbers in this game.
I'd click the link to compare, but I have a policy of never clicking a link from somebody who has used the word Goatse. I'll just take your word for it.
As the other poster said, they have three redundant generators. This is an issue of serial failures, not lack of forsight.
Also, they're not in immediate danger because they have a Soyuz return capsule currently docked at the station. They'll abandon the station if the next flight up gets delayed dangerously long.
Great thing about where I live. Four PBS channels on cable, two of which are close enough for regular broadcast. Pretty rare event that less than two of them have any given program, and they almost always have different times.
I was, at first, but nothing I've heard has convinced me they've fixed what I thought was wrong with the original.
The framerates are still horrible, and possibly even worse now than before on everything, including the lowest-end 2D tetris-like games, the menu system is laid out like something I piled into a QBASIC program I cobbled up in middle school, and not a single game takes advantage of the vertical screen, and indeed they all seem to emphasize why the vertical screen is a hinderance because most of the action is along the horizontal axis. Frankly, it's still too expensive. If its flaws were as trivial as the GBA SP (i.e. no headphone jack), I would gladly pay $200, but they're not.
My first sitting at Sonic the Hedgehog on the Genesis, I made it through to the last boss. I've managed to get very far in every 2D Sonic game out-of-the-box, but when I played it on the N-Gage, I died eight times on the first level because the screen just isn't wide enough to react, and the frame rate isn't reliable enough to go all out if it was. The keys didn't respond as fast as I needed them too, either. The gummy, unresponsive keys aren't too bad on a cell phone, but once you put games in the equation, you better add fast responding controls.
The control pad is the only problem I haven't heard much about. Only one of the sources I've read mentioned it, and it said it was a very slight improvement from a very bad starting point.
All this is one thing, then we have the advertisements, which range from stupid or patronizing to outright insulting to the people they're supposedly targeting, and the company which either isn't taking this thing seriously, or expects the world to change its concept of gameing to fit their concept of a system.
Still waiting for the PSP. If anything will get my GBA moved from my pocket to my desk, that'll be it, but I'm not clearing a spot on my desk yet.
Frankly, I'm kind of surprised that NT was more stable than 2K and that XP was less stable.
The NT4 part was very suprising to me. I used to reboot my NT4 computer more than my Windows 98a one. However, XP doesn't suprise me. While the OS itself (if you strip out all the eye candy and useless processes) is probably at least as stable as 2k (I've had both stay up as long as my rather unreliable power grid does), but it's got a lot of crap added in that you can't easily disable that causes the bulk of crashes.
They get the same sort of copyright as music and movies. The ones that are on cartridges get the extra DMCA anticircumvention protection, since dumping the ROM off the cart is considered circumventing it's copy protection. Long run, when NES games start becomming pulic domain, I doubt I'll still have enough eyesight/hearing/reflexes/bladder control to enjoy them anymore.
Don't live in Michigan, eh? Around Saginaw, it's been regularly observed where people living near State Street and Mackinaw can be hit with a thunderstorm strong enough to blow out the windows on the Kessel's supermarket, and people at Hemeter and State (less than 1/2 mile away) have no rain, minimal wind, and can even see the sun. Those nowcasts are pretty useful, since I always know that whatever's hitting the business district on Brockway will usually hit where I am in a half hour or so.
Accross the internet, depending on where the middle man is, couldn't they also use a different route if the first attempt was interfered with? If multiple attempts accross a wide range of routes are tampered with, it would tend to suggest that the bad guy is somewhere where either end's traffic HAS to pass through, like in their network or at their ISP connection, in which case they have much worse things to worry about than a simple denial of service.
For XP, do you have home or Pro? I used to have Home, and had about a 1/5 major screwup rate, but with Pro, I get almost nothing unless I run it continuously for a few days, which I don't normally do anyway.
Damn... I concede defeat. You are, indeed, the bigger dork.
google.se? No way in hell am I clicking that link. Of course, it isn't like I'd click ANY link posted in a thread about goatse.
Actually, in the Christian chronology, the devil is not a destroyer. A trickster, seducer, temptor, etc, yes, but not a destroyer. Armageddon, Sodom and Gamorrah, Noah's Flood, etc. All the epochs of destruction were carried out by God. Noah's Flood is exactly the sort of role Shiva sometimes plays in Hindu myth, which includes the constant cycle of life and death (creation and destruction), but also epochs of massive destrucion used to eliminate something fundamentally wrong with the universe.