this is just some old chick jumping a potential sue happy gravy train in hopes of leaving a nice inheritance for her family when she dies (hopefully before the lawsuit settles).
She stated in her suit that her grandson was 14 years of age when she bought a MA 17+ game for him. Right there in the complaint she admits her stupidity and guilt.
sounding pretty bitter there. But you got a point.
Those dual thumbsticks are simply no match for the mouse in comtroling an FPS character. Halo on the PC is simply so much better and easier to control.
ok ok.. I like Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2. They were both simply (odd) games that had no plot nor story. It was just a great way to pass some time and relieve stress by slapping around your gnomes and torturing captives.
and if I got really upset at things. I'd turn Horney loose.
I modded my Xbox when I learned of the xodus mod chip a year back.
Today I use the Xbox as a media center. I rip MP3's from my CD collection, store them to the bigger hard drive and mix em up for different occasions (EX: house party, mood music... )
also I copy the games I bought to the HDD so I don't need to go through the hassle of swapping disks if I want to play Ninja Gaiden, Prince of Persia and then some other random game. They're there and quickly acesible to me without worry of scratching the original disk (this is great for people with kids who manhandle CD's)
I also use the Xbox to store and play the instructional video's from 3DBuzz.com. Why play on a 21" monitor when you can play them on the 40" plasma screen?
There are loads of Legit uses for the modded Xbox.
From countless hours of playing games my reflexes are sharp, and I can judge distance, speed and predict where things will be when I get there.
This has the effect of "scaring the life" out of a passenger in my car.
Of course good ol healthy excercise helps the skill transferance even better.
Another Bright side to this situation is that only the source code for the game was "stolen".
This can lead up to alot of people wanting to make their own mods and engine fixes and additions. though the only way to test these is through buying the actual game. (or being cheap and warezing it). This can mean much more sales for Valve. Also a huge portion of community support can be instantly given on release, instead of waiting months for mods to start trickling out.
The bad side is this is IP and evil competitors can get hold of, modify and repackage their own game saving a good two years R&D.
Also this puts them in a slightly better position than ID Software and it's upcoming Doom 3. The source is out, and people will be modding like crazy to get thier mods out. Doom will shortly be forgotten and Valve will take the crown.
My father has it, Aunt, grandmother, mother, cousin and I. conversations are never dull as they are constantly rolling and changing. At times they get repetative as you lose track for a bit.
I've never been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD but I'm pretty sure I got it. I take no drugs for it, have lots of coffee and sugar all day and live a rather normal life working IT. Yes the coffee makes me wired, but that also means I can do more and work longer. Sure going to sleep at nights can be rough at times but heck, more time to play video games.
the biggest problem I find is learning. I have about $6,000 worth of computer related programming and other tech books. I have read them all through, tried their examples, but damned if I remember what I just read one page ago. I can read and understand all the programming code put in front of me but could only dream of actually starting a program from scratch. Classroom learning is even worse. In high school I was in trouble more than anything because I'd get bored quickly.
But there are some amazing benefits of ADHD that "normal" people cannot even begin to comprehend. We're Jacks of all trades. We can multitask like there's no tomorrow. Filing, counting, redundant tasks? forget that crap, give the boring stuff to the "normal" people. We live for adventure and often times live life at each moment.
We're not outcasts, we're not diseased, nor really have anything wrong with us. We just have brains that vary a bit in the structure and way information is processed. We got an infallible source of energy and can rarely sit still for longer than 5 minutes, well unless we're watching good anime or playing games, then we can sit still for days on end. Of course we make sucky writers, and often scatter our thoughts across the pages. oooh shiny thing. eh what oh yeah..
well anyway, we're just different. Since modern medicine can't understand us, (or doesn't want to) they classify it as a disease and give us drugs to make us just like every other stiff in the country. heck there's good money in marking us as diseased and selling drugs to fix our "problem" as it may be.
There are ways of coping with what is known as ADHD. Work in IT being one of the most popular. Meditation works wonders, seriously. I took up Karate a few years back and it's results have been incredible. It's not instant results, but it works. Drugs give us a crutch. To really solve the issue we need to study ourselves. ADHD requires a huge amount of self criticism and refinement. Everyday I see my actions, and then say, "hey what the hell am I doing?" I then work on trying to fix the action/reaction. By governing my own behaviors I become a better person. I learn to control and harness my wonderful gift of ADHD to do things that improve my life. If I just took the easy road out with Ritalin or one of the many other drugs I'd not be who I am today. As once you stop taking the drugs you are essentially flooded with the emotions and thoughts they have repressed for so long. then you need different ones to control these new feelings and so on. By treating it as a disease you only make it worse. Think of it as a gift, nurture and learn to live with it.
This helps with depression as well. constantly monitoring yourself and actions is in itself a daunting task but it builds up wonderful mental discipline. So you can catch yourself falling into a depressed state and be like "whoa, I'm getting depressed and hate life, I gotta pull myself out, time for some pr0n(sic)."
Well being at work, Iâ(TM)ve had less time to really put into writing this, and even les time to proof and edit. Plus writing is one of those things I still need to work on. Iâ(TM)m far from perfect. But this being let me try to summarize:
Meditation: itâ(TM)s good for your mind and body. Helps you focus and concentrate no matter what religion you are.
Fitness: Karate, gym or whatever. Puts that excess energy to use. Builds focus and sharpens mind. Great to help you get sleep.
It's different from EQ.
Run around for hours in a zoneless world. Find some random mob that happens to spawn. Point to it, double click, watch the pretty lasers. kill, loot. Bang head on keyboard/repeat.
Though I do like the close to but not as good as UO style classless system, where you can get skill in anything you want as long as you use the item enough.
It's the most beautiful online world with almost nothing to do. Well, ok, Corellia would be a wonderful spot to have a picnic and watch the friggen butterflys all day long. ooooohhhh.
This had 2 forms of censorship in the original release which was extremly annoying yet subtle.
Blood was green in the US release. Easy, they released a patch for that.
The female chick wore a dang bra. Easy to fix, delete some file and it was all better. Even though 90% of the time you saw her from behind. Who the heck could play that game multiplayer with all the network issues?
that would be genetic algorithms. The menioned bots use what I believe is Neural network modeling specifically the frontal lobes of the brain.
If genetic, neural and fuzzy algorithms could be merged into one bot you'd have one hell of a killing machine. of course you'd need some super computer to run them. Unless you only used the genetic algorithms for in house creation.
Anyone ever play the old CGA/EGA graphics game Vette? The one where you race corvettes through San francisco running down pedestrians and stuff.
GT4 would rock if it modeled Vette's damage system with the modern graphics. Get wacked on the front left wheel and steering as well as the engine gets damage. Hit hard enough and your engine blows up killing everyone within 30 miles.
Though the realistic damage should be an option as it could turn off many people. It's no fun when you get bumped on a turn and from then on have a max speed of 60mph. Also as mentioned above, some people like to take the inside of the curve, using an opponent on the outside to help them turn faster by wacking them into the guardrail.
I hated the Kudos system in Gotham racing. Racing for capitalistic money is where it's at.
I hope they totally revamp the car customization features in GT4. It was alot of fun but ended up becoming the same exact thing... buy the best parts for you car, race, rinse and repeat.
Why not go back to the 80's and pull up the original "Metal Gear". This is the NES original that started the whole Solid Snake thing in the first place. Give it fresh new graphics, and put it on the GC.
When Metal Gear SOlid came out on PSX, no one I spoke with even heard of the original.
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he died doing what he loved. How many of us get to die doing what we enjoy? I envy him.
this is just some old chick jumping a potential sue happy gravy train in hopes of leaving a nice inheritance for her family when she dies (hopefully before the lawsuit settles). She stated in her suit that her grandson was 14 years of age when she bought a MA 17+ game for him. Right there in the complaint she admits her stupidity and guilt.
1 Step closer to that old movie Cherry 2000.
only if they'd invest the energy used porting to 300 obscure pieces of hardware and work on functionality and features instead.
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It was noted that Romero was seen on the streets begging for money to license the Doom 3 Engine to make "Psycho killer Bugs and Frogs 2".
He's the "well known" licensor to the D3 engine.
sounding pretty bitter there. But you got a point.
Those dual thumbsticks are simply no match for the mouse in comtroling an FPS character. Halo on the PC is simply so much better and easier to control.
ok ok.. I like Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2. They were both simply (odd) games that had no plot nor story. It was just a great way to pass some time and relieve stress by slapping around your gnomes and torturing captives. and if I got really upset at things. I'd turn Horney loose.
and then accidentally save over your wifes saved game because it's 3am and your vision is blurry...
Profiles aka Zelda is simply where it's at.
Go back to colledge for a Psychology degree. God only knows there's an ample supply of nutcases out there to keep you busy for a long long time.
I modded my Xbox when I learned of the xodus mod chip a year back. Today I use the Xbox as a media center. I rip MP3's from my CD collection, store them to the bigger hard drive and mix em up for different occasions (EX: house party, mood music... ) also I copy the games I bought to the HDD so I don't need to go through the hassle of swapping disks if I want to play Ninja Gaiden, Prince of Persia and then some other random game. They're there and quickly acesible to me without worry of scratching the original disk (this is great for people with kids who manhandle CD's) I also use the Xbox to store and play the instructional video's from 3DBuzz.com. Why play on a 21" monitor when you can play them on the 40" plasma screen? There are loads of Legit uses for the modded Xbox.
From countless hours of playing games my reflexes are sharp, and I can judge distance, speed and predict where things will be when I get there. This has the effect of "scaring the life" out of a passenger in my car. Of course good ol healthy excercise helps the skill transferance even better.
Another Bright side to this situation is that only the source code for the game was "stolen".
This can lead up to alot of people wanting to make their own mods and engine fixes and additions. though the only way to test these is through buying the actual game. (or being cheap and warezing it). This can mean much more sales for Valve. Also a huge portion of community support can be instantly given on release, instead of waiting months for mods to start trickling out.
The bad side is this is IP and evil competitors can get hold of, modify and repackage their own game saving a good two years R&D.
Also this puts them in a slightly better position than ID Software and it's upcoming Doom 3. The source is out, and people will be modding like crazy to get thier mods out. Doom will shortly be forgotten and Valve will take the crown.
Unless I want to look at the pretty flowers all damn day the game is worthless to my time.
My father has it, Aunt, grandmother, mother, cousin and I. conversations are never dull as they are constantly rolling and changing. At times they get repetative as you lose track for a bit.
I've never been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD but I'm pretty sure I got it. I take no drugs for it, have lots of coffee and sugar all day and live a rather normal life working IT. Yes the coffee makes me wired, but that also means I can do more and work longer. Sure going to sleep at nights can be rough at times but heck, more time to play video games.
the biggest problem I find is learning. I have about $6,000 worth of computer related programming and other tech books. I have read them all through, tried their examples, but damned if I remember what I just read one page ago. I can read and understand all the programming code put in front of me but could only dream of actually starting a program from scratch. Classroom learning is even worse. In high school I was in trouble more than anything because I'd get bored quickly.
But there are some amazing benefits of ADHD that "normal" people cannot even begin to comprehend. We're Jacks of all trades. We can multitask like there's no tomorrow. Filing, counting, redundant tasks? forget that crap, give the boring stuff to the "normal" people. We live for adventure and often times live life at each moment.
We're not outcasts, we're not diseased, nor really have anything wrong with us. We just have brains that vary a bit in the structure and way information is processed. We got an infallible source of energy and can rarely sit still for longer than 5 minutes, well unless we're watching good anime or playing games, then we can sit still for days on end. Of course we make sucky writers, and often scatter our thoughts across the pages. oooh shiny thing. eh what oh yeah..
well anyway, we're just different. Since modern medicine can't understand us, (or doesn't want to) they classify it as a disease and give us drugs to make us just like every other stiff in the country. heck there's good money in marking us as diseased and selling drugs to fix our "problem" as it may be.
There are ways of coping with what is known as ADHD. Work in IT being one of the most popular. Meditation works wonders, seriously. I took up Karate a few years back and it's results have been incredible. It's not instant results, but it works. Drugs give us a crutch. To really solve the issue we need to study ourselves. ADHD requires a huge amount of self criticism and refinement. Everyday I see my actions, and then say, "hey what the hell am I doing?" I then work on trying to fix the action/reaction. By governing my own behaviors I become a better person. I learn to control and harness my wonderful gift of ADHD to do things that improve my life. If I just took the easy road out with Ritalin or one of the many other drugs I'd not be who I am today. As once you stop taking the drugs you are essentially flooded with the emotions and thoughts they have repressed for so long. then you need different ones to control these new feelings and so on. By treating it as a disease you only make it worse. Think of it as a gift, nurture and learn to live with it.
This helps with depression as well. constantly monitoring yourself and actions is in itself a daunting task but it builds up wonderful mental discipline. So you can catch yourself falling into a depressed state and be like "whoa, I'm getting depressed and hate life, I gotta pull myself out, time for some pr0n(sic)."
Well being at work, Iâ(TM)ve had less time to really put into writing this, and even les time to proof and edit. Plus writing is one of those things I still need to work on. Iâ(TM)m far from perfect. But this being let me try to summarize:
Meditation: itâ(TM)s good for your mind and body. Helps you focus and concentrate no matter what religion you are.
Fitness: Karate, gym or whatever. Puts that excess energy to use. Builds focus and sharpens mind. Great to help you get sleep.
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Remember Planetside? Galaxies is following this path really close...
It's different from EQ. Run around for hours in a zoneless world. Find some random mob that happens to spawn. Point to it, double click, watch the pretty lasers. kill, loot. Bang head on keyboard/repeat. Though I do like the close to but not as good as UO style classless system, where you can get skill in anything you want as long as you use the item enough.
It's the most beautiful online world with almost nothing to do. Well, ok, Corellia would be a wonderful spot to have a picnic and watch the friggen butterflys all day long. ooooohhhh.
This had 2 forms of censorship in the original release which was extremly annoying yet subtle. Blood was green in the US release. Easy, they released a patch for that. The female chick wore a dang bra. Easy to fix, delete some file and it was all better. Even though 90% of the time you saw her from behind. Who the heck could play that game multiplayer with all the network issues?
that would be genetic algorithms. The menioned bots use what I believe is Neural network modeling specifically the frontal lobes of the brain. If genetic, neural and fuzzy algorithms could be merged into one bot you'd have one hell of a killing machine. of course you'd need some super computer to run them. Unless you only used the genetic algorithms for in house creation.
Anyone ever play the old CGA/EGA graphics game Vette? The one where you race corvettes through San francisco running down pedestrians and stuff.
GT4 would rock if it modeled Vette's damage system with the modern graphics. Get wacked on the front left wheel and steering as well as the engine gets damage. Hit hard enough and your engine blows up killing everyone within 30 miles.
Though the realistic damage should be an option as it could turn off many people. It's no fun when you get bumped on a turn and from then on have a max speed of 60mph. Also as mentioned above, some people like to take the inside of the curve, using an opponent on the outside to help them turn faster by wacking them into the guardrail.
I hated the Kudos system in Gotham racing. Racing for capitalistic money is where it's at.
I hope they totally revamp the car customization features in GT4. It was alot of fun but ended up becoming the same exact thing... buy the best parts for you car, race, rinse and repeat.
Or get blown up by a Giant insect battleship controled by a jealous, lovestruck robot head.
When is Duke Nuken Forever 2 coming out?
When Metal Gear SOlid came out on PSX, no one I spoke with even heard of the original.
there's no need to learn computers, they'll just program themselves in 5 years.