I wondered this as well, and a NPR story revealed the unstickable substance at the end of the report. I believe it won't bond to an incomplete form of the same bacteria. I'd verify this with a non-audio link but I couldn't find one.
I'm 35 and I agree with you. So many people are going to come in claiming how great the gameplay was long ago. It wasn't. That was just all you had. I loved Basketball for Atari but I'm sorry NBA Street is better than NBA Jam is better than Arch Rivals is better than Double Dribble is better than Intellivision Basketball.
Are you telling me you'd rather play Night Driver over Burnout?
Adventure over Baldur's Gate or Elder Scrolls?
Combat over Battlefield 2?
Star Trek (the ascii grid version) over Wing Commander?
Mule over Civilization? (ok maybe Mule is bad example. That game rocked)
There was a reason you only needed one button on your joystick. The games just weren't that deep.
Older gamers, learn to accept you just aren't as good at video games as you were 20 years ago. Drop the "no gameplay" excuse.
My university has to deal with this issue. Students are using MySpace, Facebook, and local community websites to post pictures of themselves drunk, passed out, holding bongs, etc. Meanwhile employers both inside the university and out are finding these images and passing the student over for jobs.
Interestingly enough, the students see this as an invasion of privacy. Yes, we all know that once you put something on the Internet, it becomes public record, but students are flabbergasted these pictures are coming back to haunt them.
Who is the target market?
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Polite Cell Phones
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Polite people don't need it.
Rude people won't buy it or learn how to use it.
Seems a wasted effort.
Oh, it's crashing...oh, four or five hundred kilobytes per second, and it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. There's a white screen, and there's database errors, now, and the browser is crashing to the desktop...Oh, the humanity, and all the sysadmins screaming around here!"
Ya well..
The Intellivision came out in 1980 and had 2 (or four?) side buttons, a keypad (with overlays!) and a control pad. True the pad was a circle and was extremely hard on your thumb, but still.
The Atari 5200 came out in 1982 and it 4 side buttons, a keypad, and an analog stick. True the stick didn't self-center, but still.
Colecovision... ok bad example.
Anyway, the NES came out in 1983 after these other innovations. So Nintendo Co. isn't exactly the Prometheus of controller design.
Don't take it personal. Many of us that quit felt the same way as you:
"There is so much I haven't done! This game is an endless fountain of entertainment!"
I played the original hoping it would fill in the blanks of Diablo 2. I found it extremely boring. The character develop as a consequence of what action they happen to be ordered to repeat. Shoot a bow, become better at shooting a bow. Swing a sword, etc.
Well I downloaded the demo and found the game really hasn't changed much. You walk down a predetermined path fighting, casting, and drinking potions over and over again. The leveling doesn't feel special. Just a ++ to your weapon or skills. And speaking of skills, the new trees don't seem that interesting (unlike D2, WoW, CoH, etc.)
I think you summed it up pretty well when you said "the game plays itself". You kind of just sit back and jam the drink potion keys.
Again, I only played the demo so I am not in a position to speak on the final product. I would highly recommend anyone thinking of buying this to download the huge demo first or wait until the price goes down.
True, he criticized their interpretation of the texts but not the law itself.
I'd rather see a "Jedi" who is honest, upstanding and helps the weak, rather than a greedy, corrupt and deceitful Christian (or Jew or Muslim or Buddhist or whatever the Subgenius people call themselves...).
I was responding more to the fellow that insisted someone prove they are Jedi and being critical of those who hypocritically attack a religion other than their own.
And I agree with you. No one can _be_ Jesus but they can aspire to be like him. Having a mere sliver of the compassion portrayed by Jesus would be worthwhile but people tend to disregard the lessons and focus on Original Sin as if it gives them license to squirm out of responsibility.
Ok fine. Than as a Christian, prove you are _like_ Christ.
- Treat all people no matter what their sickness or sexual conduct as God's children. - Suspend your criticism of other's sins unless you are without - Put other's well-being before your own - Live a life of spirituality, not wealth - Openly critize the leaders of your religion and texts - Refrain from any anger at any time except in the case when someone is profiting from your religion - Be willing to sacrifice yourself for what you believe in
Lots of people claim to be Christians. How many really are?
Re:I get it, but I don't want it
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I am not a great programmer and I have written my fair share of kludge code. Perhaps the things I coded might have been done better in other languages and by more qualified people.
That said, PHP has served me and my university (Appalachian State) very well. When I started here I was given a "Beginning PHP" book and asked to write a job board program. It was finished within 3 weeks. I'm not boasting, it is just that easy to learn.
Since then, students and staff have written phpWebSite and MANY modules both private and public. One module took two years to code and is massive. It will end up saving a campus department several thousand dollars a year. One talented developer (not I) replaced a workorder system (previously costing $50k) within months.
We have PHP, MySQL, Apache and Linux to thank for all of this. PHP is hardly an "abomination" and far from being "crap". For many people, it gets the job done quite well.
"You" (the person who was killed) wouldn't know anything. "You" would be dead.
The copy of you wouldn't realize anything however.
I'm sure I am going to be torn a new one by someone more qualified though.
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I wondered this as well, and a NPR story revealed the unstickable substance at the end of the report. I believe it won't bond to an incomplete form of the same bacteria. I'd verify this with a non-audio link but I couldn't find one.
The Discovery Channel site claims the discovers are working on an release enzyme.
I'm 35 and I agree with you. So many people are going to come in claiming how great the gameplay was long ago. It wasn't. That was just all you had. I loved Basketball for Atari but I'm sorry NBA Street is better than NBA Jam is better than Arch Rivals is better than Double Dribble is better than Intellivision Basketball.
Are you telling me you'd rather play Night Driver over Burnout?
Adventure over Baldur's Gate or Elder Scrolls?
Combat over Battlefield 2?
Star Trek (the ascii grid version) over Wing Commander?
Mule over Civilization? (ok maybe Mule is bad example. That game rocked)
There was a reason you only needed one button on your joystick. The games just weren't that deep.
Older gamers, learn to accept you just aren't as good at video games as you were 20 years ago. Drop the "no gameplay" excuse.
My university has to deal with this issue. Students are using MySpace, Facebook, and local community websites to post pictures of themselves drunk, passed out, holding bongs, etc. Meanwhile employers both inside the university and out are finding these images and passing the student over for jobs.
Interestingly enough, the students see this as an invasion of privacy. Yes, we all know that once you put something on the Internet, it becomes public record, but students are flabbergasted these pictures are coming back to haunt them.
Polite people don't need it. Rude people won't buy it or learn how to use it. Seems a wasted effort.
Oh, it's crashing...oh, four or five hundred kilobytes per second, and it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. There's a white screen, and there's database errors, now, and the browser is crashing to the desktop ...Oh, the humanity, and all the sysadmins screaming around here!"
I was with you until the Don't Watch Television at All part. That's crazy talk.
Microsoft - We do what Google is doing today, tomorrow.
Ya well.. The Intellivision came out in 1980 and had 2 (or four?) side buttons, a keypad (with overlays!) and a control pad. True the pad was a circle and was extremely hard on your thumb, but still. The Atari 5200 came out in 1982 and it 4 side buttons, a keypad, and an analog stick. True the stick didn't self-center, but still. Colecovision... ok bad example. Anyway, the NES came out in 1983 after these other innovations. So Nintendo Co. isn't exactly the Prometheus of controller design.
Don't take it personal. Many of us that quit felt the same way as you:
"There is so much I haven't done! This game is an endless fountain of entertainment!"
Then one day you log on and "meh"
If you are still having fun, great!
I named my WoW characters Dupre, Shamino, and Gwenno. As geeky if not more.
I played the original hoping it would fill in the blanks of Diablo 2. I found it extremely boring. The character develop as a consequence of what action they happen to be ordered to repeat. Shoot a bow, become better at shooting a bow. Swing a sword, etc.
Well I downloaded the demo and found the game really hasn't changed much. You walk down a predetermined path fighting, casting, and drinking potions over and over again. The leveling doesn't feel special. Just a ++ to your weapon or skills. And speaking of skills, the new trees don't seem that interesting (unlike D2, WoW, CoH, etc.)
I think you summed it up pretty well when you said "the game plays itself". You kind of just sit back and jam the drink potion keys.
Again, I only played the demo so I am not in a position to speak on the final product. I would highly recommend anyone thinking of buying this to download the huge demo first or wait until the price goes down.
Were they pretty close before this? Kind of a mean-spirited competition if you ask me...
Creepy. The guys who had one gushed about how "life-like" the dolls felt.
All I kept thinking was, "Wow! All the fun of necrophilia with none of the hassle!"
Blegh! Something Awful commented on this phenom recently.
What are these guys thinking (while hosing them out)?
True, he criticized their interpretation of the texts but not the law itself.
Then we agree :)
I was responding more to the fellow that insisted someone prove they are Jedi and being critical of those who hypocritically attack a religion other than their own. And I agree with you. No one can _be_ Jesus but they can aspire to be like him. Having a mere sliver of the compassion portrayed by Jesus would be worthwhile but people tend to disregard the lessons and focus on Original Sin as if it gives them license to squirm out of responsibility.
Much of the gospels is Jesus arguing with Jewish leaders on the interpretation of Scripture. They tended not to like him very much.
Ok fine.
Than as a Christian, prove you are _like_ Christ.
- Treat all people no matter what their sickness or sexual conduct as God's children.
- Suspend your criticism of other's sins unless you are without
- Put other's well-being before your own
- Live a life of spirituality, not wealth
- Openly critize the leaders of your religion and texts
- Refrain from any anger at any time except in the case when someone is profiting from your religion
- Be willing to sacrifice yourself for what you believe in
Lots of people claim to be Christians. How many really are?
I am not a great programmer and I have written my fair share of kludge code. Perhaps the things I coded might have been done better in other languages and by more qualified people.
That said, PHP has served me and my university (Appalachian State) very well. When I started here I was given a "Beginning PHP" book and asked to write a job board program. It was finished within 3 weeks. I'm not boasting, it is just that easy to learn.
Since then, students and staff have written phpWebSite and MANY modules both private and public. One module took two years to code and is massive. It will end up saving a campus department several thousand dollars a year. One talented developer (not I) replaced a workorder system (previously costing $50k) within months.
We have PHP, MySQL, Apache and Linux to thank for all of this. PHP is hardly an "abomination" and far from being "crap". For many people, it gets the job done quite well.
Here's to 10 more years!
"You" (the person who was killed) wouldn't know anything. "You" would be dead. The copy of you wouldn't realize anything however. I'm sure I am going to be torn a new one by someone more qualified though.