He's probably aware of it. He's just using a tactic to evoke more response out of his audience (from the article "at a recent women's forum at Dartmouth College"). He didn't tell a lie, just didn't tell the whole truth. And by doing so, he evoked a response and furthered his agenda. People do this with statistics ALL the time in the media.
You don't really need a joystick for Melee. Almost all the moves are pulled off by pressing a direction along with either the A or B button. The rest of the buttons are used for jumping and blocking, mostly. The standard controller works fine for it.
I wouldn't know for the PS2, but you've missed out on Project Gotham 2, Crimson Skies, Top Spin Tennis, Rainbow Six 3, and who knows what else because I've been way too busy playing those (and that's only what came out last November, even). The replay value on those is astronomical thanks to perfectly balanced with tons of options online gameplay. Of your list, the only games that have come anywhere close to the addictiveness of the above games (for me, at least) are F-Zero and Viewtiful Joe.
Also, if you like turn based strategy, at all, you should pick up Gladius immediately. It starts off a little slow, but once you pick up a peltast and buying abilities with job points it picks up, and once you get channelers and summoners and start going up against class restrictions, statues that attack anything in radius, etc. I've got it for Xbox, but it's out for Gamecube also.
Re: article excerpt It took Namco 4 years to come out with the sequel to Soul Calibur (and if you ask me, it doesn't look like it gained a whole lot from those four years, but that's another story). At that rate, if they got Namco to make an exclusive Soul Calibur, we wouldn't see it until well into the next generation of consoles anyway, so it wouldn't do a whole lot of good for Nintendo anyway.
Pirates
Try Tortuga (or Pirate Hunter, I think they renamed it to that on release). It just came out recently, and while it's not the exact same game as Pirates, it's obviously heavily influenced by it. In fact, except for the lack of man to man sword fights, I'd say it could pass as a modern sequel to the game.
Judging by the information and screenshots from the above poster, Speedball's spiritual successor seems to be Deathrow for Xbox. Here's an excellent review for the game from gamefaqs that should give you an idea of the gameplay. It's an excellent game, a blast to play 4 players against each other or even against the CPU (it's the first sports video game I've ever played where everyone actually works together as a team, as opposed to trying to get the ball to be a glory hog, since hanging back and kicking the crap out of the point guard and flicking him off after you KO him is just as satisfying as scoring).
Your Meta network sounds very interesting. I hope it's successful. I especially like the idea of being able to authenticate who you are anywhere on the network, but only if you wanted to. Wish the current internet had that ability.
It'd be interesting to see what type of content is available, but alas, I'm from the U.S.
Can't say I'd care too much. I never could get into Enterprise. I'd say let it die and try again with a new series. Next Gen and Deep Space were soooo much better. I'll just keep watching them instead, for now.
In fact, I've been to a few casinos where they do deal the cards face up to the players. At those casinos the players have a sense of collaboration and often give advice to each other on what they should do with a given hand. Not that they're always the most intelligent suggestions, mind you....
Yeah, the USB ports don't work on my workplace desktop. It was annoying when I discovered that, as I purchased a USB flash drive for precisely that purpose, transferring files I work on during breaks to and from home. Although I still circumvented it by writing a script on my home PC that allows me to transfer just about anything between the two. Go figure.
Wow. At my university it only cost us $50 per semester, uncapped. Napster was blocked though (yeah, this was about three years ago). Scour and CuteMX (god I miss that program) were getting 700KB/s+ downloads, though. I was so spoiled getting DIVX movies in 20 minutes and scanning the network for unprotected homework and hilarious, cheesy love letters. That was a great year.
Now I've got Verizon DSL for $35 a month, uncapped (at least to my knowledge, and I download about 10GB/week on average, with an occasional month when i'm constantly d/l at ~100KB/sec 24/7). My comp's always on and I'm always online, but I only share if I'm currently downloading, and only on apps that force you to. I only avoid it because if I upload at more than 8KB/sec my ability to surf the net is nerfed, and it acts as if I'm on a 2600 baud modem.
Sure... click here.
Looks just like DKC, except perhaps rendered in-game as opposed to pre-rendered sprites. Which is alright, but the interface is pretty ugly.
...but I think DDR and Samba de Amigo were better ideas. Both are more physical, with Samba requiring you to shake maracas vigorously in different positions and DDR making you spin, jump, and tap all over the place. With drums you're just striking a stationary object repeatedly, (oh, and clapping apparently). DDR and Samba also have the advantage of being much more stylish than Donkey Konga is (judging by the current screenshots). I have a feeling the song selections will be better in those games too, once the full song list comes in (yes I know, Mamba No. 5 was in Samba).
It'd be pretty funny to "Konga" to that horrendous Kong Rap, though.
I don't think you read till the very end of my original post, so here it is again.
If you shot it straight up, it should have the same velocity as the point it was fired from the gun when it got back to ground level (not accounting for air resistance, of course).
So while it's true it'd be slower thanks to the effects of air resistance and terminal velocity, it should still be fast enough to "hurt someone", which the grandparent believed it would not do.
Of course, I haven't done the math (nor have time to), but I remember doing similar problems with bullets in Physics a few years ago and coming to the same conclusions.
That being said, Quake 2 is playable on a 650MHz slot 1 with crummy old pc133 sdram. Playable, but "not that great"
I find that hard to belive, since I have the same specs on my laptop with a generic video card and I used to play multiplayer Quake 3 and Unreal Tourny on it all the time. Granted I didn't get 140+fps on it or any crap like that, but it was certainly "Playable". My biggest problem, actually, was aiming with the touchpad.
Would you be happy carrying no id cards, credit cards, library cards, employee cards etc but instead everywhere type in a pin or similar secret?
Yes, I think I would. Beats getting mugged and have to go through the fun of getting new IDs/charge-stopping my CC's and Debit Card.
If you shot it straight up, it should have the same velocity as the point it was fired from the gun when it got back to ground level (not accounting for air resistance, of course).
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He's probably aware of it. He's just using a tactic to evoke more response out of his audience (from the article "at a recent women's forum at Dartmouth College"). He didn't tell a lie, just didn't tell the whole truth. And by doing so, he evoked a response and furthered his agenda. People do this with statistics ALL the time in the media.
You don't really need a joystick for Melee. Almost all the moves are pulled off by pressing a direction along with either the A or B button. The rest of the buttons are used for jumping and blocking, mostly. The standard controller works fine for it.
I wouldn't know for the PS2, but you've missed out on Project Gotham 2, Crimson Skies, Top Spin Tennis, Rainbow Six 3, and who knows what else because I've been way too busy playing those (and that's only what came out last November, even). The replay value on those is astronomical thanks to perfectly balanced with tons of options online gameplay. Of your list, the only games that have come anywhere close to the addictiveness of the above games (for me, at least) are F-Zero and Viewtiful Joe.
Also, if you like turn based strategy, at all, you should pick up Gladius immediately. It starts off a little slow, but once you pick up a peltast and buying abilities with job points it picks up, and once you get channelers and summoners and start going up against class restrictions, statues that attack anything in radius, etc. I've got it for Xbox, but it's out for Gamecube also.
Re: article excerpt
It took Namco 4 years to come out with the sequel to Soul Calibur (and if you ask me, it doesn't look like it gained a whole lot from those four years, but that's another story). At that rate, if they got Namco to make an exclusive Soul Calibur, we wouldn't see it until well into the next generation of consoles anyway, so it wouldn't do a whole lot of good for Nintendo anyway.
Pirates Try Tortuga (or Pirate Hunter, I think they renamed it to that on release). It just came out recently, and while it's not the exact same game as Pirates, it's obviously heavily influenced by it. In fact, except for the lack of man to man sword fights, I'd say it could pass as a modern sequel to the game.
Why not just remake Adventures of Lolo instead? :) I enjoyed that series better than KC, though KC was well made.
Judging by the information and screenshots from the above poster, Speedball's spiritual successor seems to be Deathrow for Xbox. Here's an excellent review for the game from gamefaqs that should give you an idea of the gameplay. It's an excellent game, a blast to play 4 players against each other or even against the CPU (it's the first sports video game I've ever played where everyone actually works together as a team, as opposed to trying to get the ball to be a glory hog, since hanging back and kicking the crap out of the point guard and flicking him off after you KO him is just as satisfying as scoring).
Your Meta network sounds very interesting. I hope it's successful. I especially like the idea of being able to authenticate who you are anywhere on the network, but only if you wanted to. Wish the current internet had that ability.
It'd be interesting to see what type of content is available, but alas, I'm from the U.S.
Can't say I'd care too much. I never could get into Enterprise. I'd say let it die and try again with a new series. Next Gen and Deep Space were soooo much better. I'll just keep watching them instead, for now.
Goatse.cx lives on, kinda, under the new Goat.cx, albeit with a disclaimer immediately above the image.
In response to Microsoft's offer, Mike Rowe should have offered to buy Microsoft's domain name for $10.
In fact, I've been to a few casinos where they do deal the cards face up to the players. At those casinos the players have a sense of collaboration and often give advice to each other on what they should do with a given hand. Not that they're always the most intelligent suggestions, mind you....
Butterfinger was another sponsor in Jet Moto.
I can't believe I still remember that. Damn, they're right.
Yeah, the USB ports don't work on my workplace desktop. It was annoying when I discovered that, as I purchased a USB flash drive for precisely that purpose, transferring files I work on during breaks to and from home. Although I still circumvented it by writing a script on my home PC that allows me to transfer just about anything between the two. Go figure.
...until I release my MySQL source code to the open source community. Then that 6x multiplier will drop down to 2x.
Yeah, it's really that bad. Gets the job done, though. Hell to maintain. Probably would've helped if I documented any of it.
Maybe I should read that Code Complete book I keep meaning to read sometime.
Wow. At my university it only cost us $50 per semester, uncapped. Napster was blocked though (yeah, this was about three years ago). Scour and CuteMX (god I miss that program) were getting 700KB/s+ downloads, though. I was so spoiled getting DIVX movies in 20 minutes and scanning the network for unprotected homework and hilarious, cheesy love letters. That was a great year.
Now I've got Verizon DSL for $35 a month, uncapped (at least to my knowledge, and I download about 10GB/week on average, with an occasional month when i'm constantly d/l at ~100KB/sec 24/7). My comp's always on and I'm always online, but I only share if I'm currently downloading, and only on apps that force you to. I only avoid it because if I upload at more than 8KB/sec my ability to surf the net is nerfed, and it acts as if I'm on a 2600 baud modem.
Same thing happens to me. Anybody know the techno reason for this?
Sure... click here. Looks just like DKC, except perhaps rendered in-game as opposed to pre-rendered sprites. Which is alright, but the interface is pretty ugly.
...but I think DDR and Samba de Amigo were better ideas. Both are more physical, with Samba requiring you to shake maracas vigorously in different positions and DDR making you spin, jump, and tap all over the place. With drums you're just striking a stationary object repeatedly, (oh, and clapping apparently). DDR and Samba also have the advantage of being much more stylish than Donkey Konga is (judging by the current screenshots). I have a feeling the song selections will be better in those games too, once the full song list comes in (yes I know, Mamba No. 5 was in Samba).
It'd be pretty funny to "Konga" to that horrendous Kong Rap, though.
I don't think you read till the very end of my original post, so here it is again.
If you shot it straight up, it should have the same velocity as the point it was fired from the gun when it got back to ground level (not accounting for air resistance, of course).
So while it's true it'd be slower thanks to the effects of air resistance and terminal velocity, it should still be fast enough to "hurt someone", which the grandparent believed it would not do.
Of course, I haven't done the math (nor have time to), but I remember doing similar problems with bullets in Physics a few years ago and coming to the same conclusions.
That being said, Quake 2 is playable on a 650MHz slot 1 with crummy old pc133 sdram. Playable, but "not that great" I find that hard to belive, since I have the same specs on my laptop with a generic video card and I used to play multiplayer Quake 3 and Unreal Tourny on it all the time. Granted I didn't get 140+fps on it or any crap like that, but it was certainly "Playable". My biggest problem, actually, was aiming with the touchpad.
Would you be happy carrying no id cards, credit cards, library cards, employee cards etc but instead everywhere type in a pin or similar secret? Yes, I think I would. Beats getting mugged and have to go through the fun of getting new IDs/charge-stopping my CC's and Debit Card.
If you shot it straight up, it should have the same velocity as the point it was fired from the gun when it got back to ground level (not accounting for air resistance, of course).
Bootlegs are not illegal if the concert was never recorded for distribution purposes. It's one of the requirements for copyright infringement.
Because it's bad for business.
Students aren't prisoners, they're customers, and if you're going to inconvenience them, they'll take their money elsewhere.
Sometimes schools like to conveniently forget that, though.