He said 'also', as in surplus to the BOOKS and the EXAMS and the FOUNTAIN OF KNOWLEDGE, GLAVIN!
Where's the mutual exclusivity?
It's easy, people: the 'college experience' consists of the sum of a variety of encounters. College is not all about learning. College is not all about drinking and shagging. It's about everything. A AND B, not A OR B. Thus concludes Logic 101. You may leave the lecture theatre.
"US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor was found dead in her Detroit home this morning. Police were alerted by neighbors who had heard several gunshots originating from the house. Judge Taylor was found with three gunshot wounds to her back and one to the head. Authorities haved ruled this event as suicide. Officer Ted McReady, the first on the scene, said it was the "clearest-cut case of suicide he'd ever seen in 30 years service"."
You speak much wisdom. You are now on my friends list.
Heh, I say this while under the influence of a drug (plain old alcohol, I'm afraid to say). You're completely right when you say that nobody notices normal drug users because they're, well, normal, so they always focus on the 'jobless pothead in my neighbourhood who smokes pot all day' and amplify this as the image of a normal pot smoker, despite the fact that their doctor/lecturer/lawyer gets high regularly but just doesn't let it show. There must be some kind of ancient Greek logical fallacy that's directly analogous in this situation.
What advice do you have for someone trying to get into voice acting? "Have a recording studio do a professional demo tape of straight reads and character voices. They usually have all the stuff for you work with on your demo. Always consider critiques of your performances. You take the demo and try to get an interview with a commercial talent agency for them to listen to. Try everywhere. I started in radio and got a job doing VO's in 1980 after the star of the morning show heard it. I worked for free at first and then it turned into a paying part-time job. Try stations to see if any of the shows need a good voice person. Radio shows are most likely to use a person that can do political figures or celebrities. They mostly rely on their on-air talent to read the straight stuff or let the production director do it. It's a good idea to think about re-locating to where the industry is, namely New York or LA, even though it's frightening.
When I left my hometown there were a few guys that called me after they heard me in a cartoon or saw me on TV or in a commercial doing voices. "Wow man, what's it like to have a job like that? Must be nothin' but tits and ice cream!" All I said was "Hey, I took the risks you guys never did. You got married too early and had kids and got steady jobs and took the safe path of least resistance. I had the balls to get in in a business of 90unemployment and bet on myself. I did real well but there were no guarantees of even a small success. I was a gunslinger that wouldn't listen to advice and got lucky. But so could you."
Why do you call it 'Chinese' food when you've bought those spring rolls from a restaurant in Ohio? Oh my God!
I'd imagine that if you're smart enough to use such phrases as 'asinine dualities' then you'd be able to comprehend the concept of a borrowed culture. Western culture is regarded as money-driven, fast-paced and obsessed with image, whether this is exactly true or not and whether such a culture exists elsewhere in the world or not. The new wave of Chinese nightclubs springing up and the hipster kids going to them is seen as an import of western culture, for example.
Your idea is very similar to something I've been pondering recently as a futuristic 'successor' to Laser Quest style games. Great minds, eh?
What I was thinking was a standard arena - walls, floors, ceilings, doorways etc. - that wasn't decorated but instead painted in very simple colours for software image recognition. Walls could be red, floors blue, etc. Players are given light-guns and virtual reality headsets which have cameras mounted on them. The headsets display an 'augmented reality' projection of the world around them to the player. So, in real life they are staring at plain red walls and a white cube, but in the virtual reality game they see spaceship walls with pulsing lights and a caged crate with some kind of monster in it. In real life there is silence, but in the game there is whirring mechanical sounds, explosions and other ambient noises. There could also be a HUD overlay, displaying ammo, lives and health.
The aim of the game is basically identical to Laser Quest - run around shooting people on the opposing team - spruced up with different playing modes (CTF, VIP, etc.) and features (accuracy bonus, shields, spies). The beauty of the augmented reality is that the world be can changed at the push of a button. One minute it's a spaceship orbiting saturn and you're shooting a raygun, the next it's a WW2 submarine and you're firing an MP40 sub-machinegun.
There would need to be some kind of tracking software to make sure that the game server knows the positions of all players and the headsets are given an up to date feed (any lag would be disatrous - a player could run into a wall that, to him, looks like it's 5 feet away). I suppose Bluetooth and RFID could be used for such purposes, although the projection in the headset would have to be accurate within an inch at the most.
Obviously the big obstacles are motion sickness and claustrophobia, inconsistencies between the real world and the game world, easily-damaged equipment, ease of injuries and subsequent litigation, etc.
Super Mario Bros 2 was completely different from just about every other one in the franchise
Actually, the real SMB2 was almost identical to the first game with the exception of a few extras like poisonous mushrooms and gusts of wind. The SMB2 you played was basically a completely different game, Doki Doki Panic, with some Mario sprites substituted. This version was introduced to American/European markets because the original SMB2 was deemed too hard - I can attest that it is quite difficult, at least when compared to the first game. You can find it as 'The Lost Levels' on Super Mario All Stars for the SNES.
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He said 'also', as in surplus to the BOOKS and the EXAMS and the FOUNTAIN OF KNOWLEDGE, GLAVIN!
Where's the mutual exclusivity?
It's easy, people: the 'college experience' consists of the sum of a variety of encounters. College is not all about learning. College is not all about drinking and shagging. It's about everything. A AND B, not A OR B. Thus concludes Logic 101. You may leave the lecture theatre.
How would you convey goatse through sound?
I think he was being sarcastic.
I love it when people can't grasp the fact that the word 'redundant' is defined outside the realm of Slashdot comment ordering.
If we can (barely) survive Jim Goatse, I'm sure we can survive anything.
published in a high profile manor for all to see??
What, like the Playboy Mansion?
"US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor was found dead in her Detroit home this morning. Police were alerted by neighbors who had heard several gunshots originating from the house. Judge Taylor was found with three gunshot wounds to her back and one to the head. Authorities haved ruled this event as suicide. Officer Ted McReady, the first on the scene, said it was the "clearest-cut case of suicide he'd ever seen in 30 years service"."
Damn, and here I was thinking I'm the only one who's peed in somebody else's closet while drunk! Maybe we should start a club or something? ;)
You speak much wisdom. You are now on my friends list.
Heh, I say this while under the influence of a drug (plain old alcohol, I'm afraid to say). You're completely right when you say that nobody notices normal drug users because they're, well, normal, so they always focus on the 'jobless pothead in my neighbourhood who smokes pot all day' and amplify this as the image of a normal pot smoker, despite the fact that their doctor/lecturer/lawyer gets high regularly but just doesn't let it show. There must be some kind of ancient Greek logical fallacy that's directly analogous in this situation.
Cheers!
You forgot the 'GLAVIN' on the end.
Coastguard, of course.
Then who will be left to scare the children?
Terrorists?
But then how can I find out about Tiffany's date with Chad?!
No, he loost it.
From Billy West's FAQ:
What advice do you have for someone trying to get into voice acting?
"Have a recording studio do a professional demo tape of straight reads and character voices. They usually have all the stuff for you work with on your demo. Always consider critiques of your performances. You take the demo and try to get an interview with a commercial talent agency for them to listen to. Try everywhere. I started in radio and got a job doing VO's in 1980 after the star of the morning show heard it. I worked for free at first and then it turned into a paying part-time job. Try stations to see if any of the shows need a good voice person. Radio shows are most likely to use a person that can do political figures or celebrities. They mostly rely on their on-air talent to read the straight stuff or let the production director do it. It's a good idea to think about re-locating to where the industry is, namely New York or LA, even though it's frightening.
When I left my hometown there were a few guys that called me after they heard me in a cartoon or saw me on TV or in a commercial doing voices. "Wow man, what's it like to have a job like that? Must be nothin' but tits and ice cream!" All I said was "Hey, I took the risks you guys never did. You got married too early and had kids and got steady jobs and took the safe path of least resistance. I had the balls to get in in a business of 90unemployment and bet on myself. I did real well but there were no guarantees of even a small success. I was a gunslinger that wouldn't listen to advice and got lucky. But so could you."
Church Service Representative: Hi, this is John at the Finland State Church . How may I help you today?
Vincent: I want to quit the church.
CSR: Sorry to hear that. Let's pull your file up here real quick. Can I have your name, please?
Vincent: Vincent Ferrari
CSR: 'K, Vincent . . . All right, thank you very much. Okay. You've been with the church for a long time.
Vincent: I just don't use it anymore.
CSR: Okay. Well actually, I'm showing a lot of usage on this church file.
Vincent: Yeah, a long time ago. Not recently.
(Here the service rep asks about another file that belongs to Ferrari's dad.)
CSR: Well, what's causing you to want to resign from the church today? I mean obviously, I mean . . .
Vincent: I don't use it and he doesn't use it, so we're quitting the church. . . . I don't need it. I don't want it. I just don't need it anymore.
CSR: Well, on June 2nd, you went to church. You were there for 72 hours. On June 2nd.
Vincent: I don't know how to make it any clearer . . .
CSR: Last month was 545 hours of church usage.
Vincent: I don't know how to make this any clearer, so I'm just going to say it one last time. Resign me. Please.
CSR: Well explain to me what's, wha, why . . .
Vincent: I'm not explaining anything to you. Resign. Me.
CSR: Wha, what's the matter, Vincent? We're just . . . I'm just trying to help here.
Vincent: You're not helping me. Helping me would be . . .
CSR: I am trying to help . . .
Vincent: Listen! I called to resign from the church. Helping me would be resigning me from the church. Please help me and resign me from the church.
CSR: No, it wouldn't actually . . .
Vincent: Resign me!
CSR: Resigning you . . .
Vincent: Resign. Me. From. The. Church. Resign. Me. From. The. Church...
Don't you mean, 'what the flock are you talking about'?
Why do you call it 'Chinese' food when you've bought those spring rolls from a restaurant in Ohio? Oh my God!
I'd imagine that if you're smart enough to use such phrases as 'asinine dualities' then you'd be able to comprehend the concept of a borrowed culture. Western culture is regarded as money-driven, fast-paced and obsessed with image, whether this is exactly true or not and whether such a culture exists elsewhere in the world or not. The new wave of Chinese nightclubs springing up and the hipster kids going to them is seen as an import of western culture, for example.
Shouldnt we be putting our best and brightest (pretty much all the /.ers)
Heh, good one.
Your idea is very similar to something I've been pondering recently as a futuristic 'successor' to Laser Quest style games. Great minds, eh?
What I was thinking was a standard arena - walls, floors, ceilings, doorways etc. - that wasn't decorated but instead painted in very simple colours for software image recognition. Walls could be red, floors blue, etc. Players are given light-guns and virtual reality headsets which have cameras mounted on them. The headsets display an 'augmented reality' projection of the world around them to the player. So, in real life they are staring at plain red walls and a white cube, but in the virtual reality game they see spaceship walls with pulsing lights and a caged crate with some kind of monster in it. In real life there is silence, but in the game there is whirring mechanical sounds, explosions and other ambient noises. There could also be a HUD overlay, displaying ammo, lives and health.
The aim of the game is basically identical to Laser Quest - run around shooting people on the opposing team - spruced up with different playing modes (CTF, VIP, etc.) and features (accuracy bonus, shields, spies). The beauty of the augmented reality is that the world be can changed at the push of a button. One minute it's a spaceship orbiting saturn and you're shooting a raygun, the next it's a WW2 submarine and you're firing an MP40 sub-machinegun.
There would need to be some kind of tracking software to make sure that the game server knows the positions of all players and the headsets are given an up to date feed (any lag would be disatrous - a player could run into a wall that, to him, looks like it's 5 feet away). I suppose Bluetooth and RFID could be used for such purposes, although the projection in the headset would have to be accurate within an inch at the most.
Obviously the big obstacles are motion sickness and claustrophobia, inconsistencies between the real world and the game world, easily-damaged equipment, ease of injuries and subsequent litigation, etc.
I prefer the sound of 'La Fuga' (The Escape) myself.
But bombs and Guy Fawkes' masks just have more 'pizzaz', you know...?
Is that ionic or covalent?
Super Mario Bros 2 was completely different from just about every other one in the franchise
Actually, the real SMB2 was almost identical to the first game with the exception of a few extras like poisonous mushrooms and gusts of wind. The SMB2 you played was basically a completely different game, Doki Doki Panic, with some Mario sprites substituted. This version was introduced to American/European markets because the original SMB2 was deemed too hard - I can attest that it is quite difficult, at least when compared to the first game. You can find it as 'The Lost Levels' on Super Mario All Stars for the SNES.
Sounds like old Peachy has a case of Stockholm syndrome