Interesting...I used to neither care nor know about sports until I played someone else's sports video game and gained an insterest in the sport to some degree. It's happened with Mario Golf/Golf and Madden 2005/Football.
I thought I was the only person who got into sports through games rather than the other way around.
1) No, only in British English, which I don't speak. Color is correct and is much closer to how it's actually pronounced. The extraneous "u" and the silly "re" thing come from French and serve no purpose in English as it's pronounced (at least by people I hear) today.
2) I would pronounce it cuhl-OAR, as that's how it looks. The word has no "u" sound, sorry.
I'm a native American, meaning I was born on one of the American continents. I'm not an aboriginal American, however, as my ancestors relatively recently (in the grand scheme of human history) came over from Europe.
The same reason that horrible shit-pile of a movie House of the Dead was called House of the Dead while having nothing to do with the game except that zombies and guns were involved. And the same reason Bloodrayne, being made by the same braindead director (Uwe Boll) is going to have nothing to do with the game.
In other words, I have no idea.
One slightly good thing I can say about what I read about Doom is that they're at least trying to make it a horror movie with similar atmosphere (according to the article) whereas HotD didn't even get that right and tried to make a gothic, dark, moody game into an uber-hip matrix inspired crap-a-thon.
Dawn of the Dead zombies weren't really from hell, that's just one character's thoughts (based on his religious beliefs). In the remake, it's never stated, but it wouldn't make sense if they were occult rather than pseudo-scientifically animated. I'm pretty sure a virus was to blame in the remake as well as the original. Occult zombies are the kind that usually just rise from their graves and don't need to mess with biting to spread the zombism. And yes, I am a zombie nut.
Now, about the Doom movie, something similar was done in the Doom novels, except the demons became aliens, rather than mutants, which was the main reason I didn't like the books. Doom without the literal forces of hell isn't Doom. Period.
I prefer realism over balance any day. Of course, HL2 is far from realistic, but that's not the point.
First, it's magazine, not clip, and it's sub-machine gune, not machine gun. You may think that's nitpicking, but there are *major* differences between those two pairs of terms. SMGs generally shoot 9mm rounds, which aren't that powerful (they're the minimum size that's generally used in any sort of combat/defense role). Magnums, on the other hand are *quite* powerful.
Now, I'm not arguing that HL2 is realistic by any means, just that I'd rather it be more realistic, even at the expense of balance.
There are at least 20 other and mostly better games that are tactical. Get out of the mid-90s. CS may have been cool then, but there are many other games that do the tactical thing much better. And they don't have quite as many 12 year-olds either.
Well, for the record, had I known about these issues, I would not have bought the game. I had heard of the fact that you needed Steam, but I didn't know that the installer was very buggy and that it would take 5 hours to install and then another day to get it unlocked so I could play it. I also had no idea that the CDs had no case and there was no manual in the box.
In fact, after I spent an hour or two without even getting the install program to start, and then getting it to start and then lock up the system, I strongly considered taking it back, but the fact that the store wasn't open at the time led me to keep struggling until I got it to run and forgot momentarily about the huge pain in the ass that getting this game to work was.
Don't forget that it (the boxed version) comes with neither a manual nor a case for the CDs. The only other game I've gotten that came with paper sleeves was a minor niche-game, not a big, mainstream, hugely anticipated game like HL2. I've never bought a game that came with no manual. I can't even find a PDF or HTML manual on the hard drive anywhere--maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?
So for $55, I got a box with a quick reference card, an advertisement for a Video card, and some CDs in cheap paper sleeves which contained a game that took 5 (five) hours to install and required me to sign up for an account and run some crappy program in the background *every* time I run the single-player game. I haven't even touched the CS component and I'm not going to, as the games I play online have enough 12 year-olds playing.
So despite how awesome the game is once it is actually playable, I don't think I'll be purchasing any Valve games in the future. And for the record, I pay for *all* the games I play, except for demos, obviously.
Well, It took me well over 5 hours to get it installed and ready to play. I had to take some Excedrin Tension Headache pills as well.
The CD would lock up the computer until I figured out how to mess around with the CD drive opening and closing to get it to even start the install program. Then it wouldn't get past the DirectX-doesn't-need-to-be-updated screen, and after about 30 minutes of searching online, I found out that that's because I don't have enough hard drive space. This is the first installation program that I've seen that can't just *tell you* that you don't have enough space. Then I found that the installation would get locked up about halfway through if you chose not to install Counter-Strike, which I chose not to. I would think that as long as it took to get this game finished, they could have gotten the installation program working. I'm seeing a *lot* of people bitching about all kinds of installation issues on forums, so hopefully whoever is responsible will get an earfull.
I finally got to play a few hours last night and I must admit, it's quite an amazing game. I'm not quite ready to say it was worth it just yet, but I'm very close to admiting it.
I can tell you, however, that I really resent paying $55 for this game (at EB) and not getting a manual, not getting a proper case for the CDs and having to download and sign up for some stupid online program to play a single player game. Steam also can't be uninstalled until HL2 is. Why can't they make the singleplayer game standalone? I've never seen such utter stupidity.
In fact, he's the most decorated in the shortest period of time in US history (3 months). Doesn't that seem a little suspicious to you? Three Purple Hearts in three months is just unheard of. His purple hearts were not deserved. He didn't spend any time in hospitals or anything.
I'm an ardent atheist and I voted for Bush also. His over-religiousness does bother me, but I'm more worried about terrorism than that right now. And Kerry is/was a joke.
Most successful eh? I guess all of those countries with lower unemployment rates, longer life expectancies, and shorter work weeks are just green with envy.
Yeah, especially since they're probably paying about 75% or more in taxes.
Also, according to this site, and others I checked, the USA has lower unemployment than most European countries, so I'm not sure which countries you're talking about.
Because people have no clue what "goth" means. If someone has more than 2 piercings, they apparently think they're goth.
I personally would like to see more "goth" looking chicks there. Most range from pseudo-punk to punk. If you look at their music and the like, the vast majority like punk, followed by goth, industrial, etc. I personally am not a big fan of piercings and tattoos on women. I can handle some, but some of the girls on SG are a little excessive. There is enough variety, however, that I like it.
The thing is, the girls here are real, girl next door types. Most "goth" porn sites I see just have your typical models with black makeup and cheesy halloween costumes on.
It's also one of sites with the cheapest memberships I've seen. Individual months are $10, and it goes down from there the more months you get at a time, down to $4 a month.
I think that this goes to show that these people aren't just politically motivated--as is the common belief--they're mainly motivated by a very dangerous religious fanatacism. As far as I know, the US has nothing to do with Russian and Chechnya. But then, why are they crossing our borders?
I don't condone downloading illegal copies of games, but I do agree that anything more than inserting the CD(s) and entering a CD code is too invasive. Particularly for singleplayer.
Most games I have played aren't bad. At the worst, for some games you have to set up an account, but most games just require a CD code and you're ready to play.
Singleplayer, however, should not require internet access at all. This is ridiculous, and I may just not get HL2 because of it.
However, that means I will do without it rather than downloading it. Unlike many people, I learned that you either pay for something or do without. Getting games is not a right.
Try reading the quote that you quoted. I never said anything about them causing us to invade. The sooner they start acting in a civilized manner and stop killing everyone, the sooner we are likely to leave. The point is, if terrorists are killing their own government, military and police, we can't exactly leave. A civil war would result and the country would probably end up a fundementalist terrorist state.
You'd be funny if this wasn't so sad. You take a quote, change the meaning and then start a rant about American Indians and lions. Good job.
I agree that insurgent is not the correct word. The correct word would be terrorist.
I'm sorry you believe the romanticized "they're just defending themselves" crap. Why are these terrorists attacking Iraqi government, military and police about as much if not more than they're attacking allied forces? Why are they kidnapping and slowly beheading civilians while chanting to allah? That's not the behavior of people who are just trying to defend their country. In fact, the sooner they start acting like human beings, the sooner we're likely to leave.
I agree, but a minor nitpick: Clausewitz was around in more like the 18th or 19th centuries.
Speaking of which, I need to find and read a real copy of his On War. The book I bought was edited by a leftie intellectual who, in his infinite wisdom, removed the parts about Military strategy and tried to make the rest into an anti-war treatise. As I bought the book mainly because of my interest in military strategy, I was sorely disappointed, to say the least.
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Interesting...I used to neither care nor know about sports until I played someone else's sports video game and gained an insterest in the sport to some degree. It's happened with Mario Golf/Golf and Madden 2005/Football.
I thought I was the only person who got into sports through games rather than the other way around.
1) No, only in British English, which I don't speak. Color is correct and is much closer to how it's actually pronounced. The extraneous "u" and the silly "re" thing come from French and serve no purpose in English as it's pronounced (at least by people I hear) today.
2) I would pronounce it cuhl-OAR, as that's how it looks. The word has no "u" sound, sorry.
What's the point of all those extra "u"s you put in all those words that don't need them? "Color" means "Colour" and it's shorter and easier to type.
That, and "burgle" sounds funny to me.
Not really.
I'm a native American, meaning I was born on one of the American continents. I'm not an aboriginal American, however, as my ancestors relatively recently (in the grand scheme of human history) came over from Europe.
So I think Aboriginal American is more correct.
The same reason that horrible shit-pile of a movie House of the Dead was called House of the Dead while having nothing to do with the game except that zombies and guns were involved. And the same reason Bloodrayne, being made by the same braindead director (Uwe Boll) is going to have nothing to do with the game.
In other words, I have no idea.
One slightly good thing I can say about what I read about Doom is that they're at least trying to make it a horror movie with similar atmosphere (according to the article) whereas HotD didn't even get that right and tried to make a gothic, dark, moody game into an uber-hip matrix inspired crap-a-thon.
Dawn of the Dead zombies weren't really from hell, that's just one character's thoughts (based on his religious beliefs). In the remake, it's never stated, but it wouldn't make sense if they were occult rather than pseudo-scientifically animated. I'm pretty sure a virus was to blame in the remake as well as the original. Occult zombies are the kind that usually just rise from their graves and don't need to mess with biting to spread the zombism. And yes, I am a zombie nut.
Now, about the Doom movie, something similar was done in the Doom novels, except the demons became aliens, rather than mutants, which was the main reason I didn't like the books. Doom without the literal forces of hell isn't Doom. Period.
I prefer realism over balance any day. Of course, HL2 is far from realistic, but that's not the point.
First, it's magazine, not clip, and it's sub-machine gune, not machine gun. You may think that's nitpicking, but there are *major* differences between those two pairs of terms. SMGs generally shoot 9mm rounds, which aren't that powerful (they're the minimum size that's generally used in any sort of combat/defense role). Magnums, on the other hand are *quite* powerful.
Now, I'm not arguing that HL2 is realistic by any means, just that I'd rather it be more realistic, even at the expense of balance.
There are at least 20 other and mostly better games that are tactical. Get out of the mid-90s. CS may have been cool then, but there are many other games that do the tactical thing much better. And they don't have quite as many 12 year-olds either.
Well, for the record, had I known about these issues, I would not have bought the game. I had heard of the fact that you needed Steam, but I didn't know that the installer was very buggy and that it would take 5 hours to install and then another day to get it unlocked so I could play it. I also had no idea that the CDs had no case and there was no manual in the box.
In fact, after I spent an hour or two without even getting the install program to start, and then getting it to start and then lock up the system, I strongly considered taking it back, but the fact that the store wasn't open at the time led me to keep struggling until I got it to run and forgot momentarily about the huge pain in the ass that getting this game to work was.
Don't forget that it (the boxed version) comes with neither a manual nor a case for the CDs. The only other game I've gotten that came with paper sleeves was a minor niche-game, not a big, mainstream, hugely anticipated game like HL2. I've never bought a game that came with no manual. I can't even find a PDF or HTML manual on the hard drive anywhere--maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?
So for $55, I got a box with a quick reference card, an advertisement for a Video card, and some CDs in cheap paper sleeves which contained a game that took 5 (five) hours to install and required me to sign up for an account and run some crappy program in the background *every* time I run the single-player game. I haven't even touched the CS component and I'm not going to, as the games I play online have enough 12 year-olds playing.
So despite how awesome the game is once it is actually playable, I don't think I'll be purchasing any Valve games in the future. And for the record, I pay for *all* the games I play, except for demos, obviously.
Well, It took me well over 5 hours to get it installed and ready to play. I had to take some Excedrin Tension Headache pills as well.
The CD would lock up the computer until I figured out how to mess around with the CD drive opening and closing to get it to even start the install program. Then it wouldn't get past the DirectX-doesn't-need-to-be-updated screen, and after about 30 minutes of searching online, I found out that that's because I don't have enough hard drive space. This is the first installation program that I've seen that can't just *tell you* that you don't have enough space. Then I found that the installation would get locked up about halfway through if you chose not to install Counter-Strike, which I chose not to. I would think that as long as it took to get this game finished, they could have gotten the installation program working. I'm seeing a *lot* of people bitching about all kinds of installation issues on forums, so hopefully whoever is responsible will get an earfull.
I finally got to play a few hours last night and I must admit, it's quite an amazing game. I'm not quite ready to say it was worth it just yet, but I'm very close to admiting it.
I can tell you, however, that I really resent paying $55 for this game (at EB) and not getting a manual, not getting a proper case for the CDs and having to download and sign up for some stupid online program to play a single player game. Steam also can't be uninstalled until HL2 is. Why can't they make the singleplayer game standalone? I've never seen such utter stupidity.
Ok, rant over.
"Metroid 2"?!? "The first one"?!?
Do you think that the Metroid series just sprung into being a few years ago??
I hope you just forgot to put "Prime" in there.
Geez.
In fact, he's the most decorated in the shortest period of time in US history (3 months). Doesn't that seem a little suspicious to you? Three Purple Hearts in three months is just unheard of. His purple hearts were not deserved. He didn't spend any time in hospitals or anything.
I'm an ardent atheist and I voted for Bush also. His over-religiousness does bother me, but I'm more worried about terrorism than that right now. And Kerry is/was a joke.
Actually, about 70% of Ohio used plain old punchcards.
Sorry to ruin your little conspiracy theory.
Most successful eh? I guess all of those countries with lower unemployment rates, longer life expectancies, and shorter work weeks are just green with envy.
Yeah, especially since they're probably paying about 75% or more in taxes.
Also, according to this site,
and others I checked, the USA has lower unemployment than most European countries, so I'm not sure which countries you're talking about.
Well, I don't. And I never will. I have the other two current consoles, but not an Xbox.
Uh, I won't be playing. I really don't get what the big deal about Halo is, anyway.
Because people have no clue what "goth" means. If someone has more than 2 piercings, they apparently think they're goth.
I personally would like to see more "goth" looking chicks there. Most range from pseudo-punk to punk. If you look at their music and the like, the vast majority like punk, followed by goth, industrial, etc. I personally am not a big fan of piercings and tattoos on women. I can handle some, but some of the girls on SG are a little excessive. There is enough variety, however, that I like it.
The thing is, the girls here are real, girl next door types. Most "goth" porn sites I see just have your typical models with black makeup and cheesy halloween costumes on.
It's also one of sites with the cheapest memberships I've seen. Individual months are $10, and it goes down from there the more months you get at a time, down to $4 a month.
You obviously haven't seen many Suicide Girls. Most are white, yes, but there are quite a few that are definately not skinny.
Especially with Checheny which is right now mostly a russian problem.
Really, now? What do you think about this?
I think that this goes to show that these people aren't just politically motivated--as is the common belief--they're mainly motivated by a very dangerous religious fanatacism. As far as I know, the US has nothing to do with Russian and Chechnya. But then, why are they crossing our borders?
I don't condone downloading illegal copies of games, but I do agree that anything more than inserting the CD(s) and entering a CD code is too invasive. Particularly for singleplayer.
Most games I have played aren't bad. At the worst, for some games you have to set up an account, but most games just require a CD code and you're ready to play.
Singleplayer, however, should not require internet access at all. This is ridiculous, and I may just not get HL2 because of it.
However, that means I will do without it rather than downloading it. Unlike many people, I learned that you either pay for something or do without. Getting games is not a right.
Try reading the quote that you quoted. I never said anything about them causing us to invade. The sooner they start acting in a civilized manner and stop killing everyone, the sooner we are likely to leave. The point is, if terrorists are killing their own government, military and police, we can't exactly leave. A civil war would result and the country would probably end up a fundementalist terrorist state.
You'd be funny if this wasn't so sad. You take a quote, change the meaning and then start a rant about American Indians and lions. Good job.
I agree that insurgent is not the correct word. The correct word would be terrorist.
I'm sorry you believe the romanticized "they're just defending themselves" crap. Why are these terrorists attacking Iraqi government, military and police about as much if not more than they're attacking allied forces? Why are they kidnapping and slowly beheading civilians while chanting to allah? That's not the behavior of people who are just trying to defend their country. In fact, the sooner they start acting like human beings, the sooner we're likely to leave.
I agree, but a minor nitpick: Clausewitz was around in more like the 18th or 19th centuries.
Speaking of which, I need to find and read a real copy of his On War. The book I bought was edited by a leftie intellectual who, in his infinite wisdom, removed the parts about Military strategy and tried to make the rest into an anti-war treatise. As I bought the book mainly because of my interest in military strategy, I was sorely disappointed, to say the least.