Well, it serves a purpose to do so. I have no reason to even have Linux installed, ATM, since between 10-minute/. sessions, I'm just gaming (If I'm in front of the machine at all). In order to even justify the hard drive space for a Linux install, I'd need to be able to play a lot of games on it, and more than the ones Cedega officially supports. I know the supported ones run, at least, they'd damn well better. It's the unsupported ones that are worth a look.
I didn't mention Caine specifically. He's good, but he seems to just do whatever seems fun when it comes to roles. That's the impression that I got from some Goldmember-related interviews.
Also keep in mind that a lot of great actors, particularly British ones, as far as I can see, tend to be very reluctant to sign on to movies with bad scripts. And from what I know of the characters, the casting is quite good, as long as they're like the old versions. And the director seems talented enough to me (Memento). Indeed. High hopes, high hopes.
The writer did some bad stuff, that's clear/ But he also did Dark City, which is in many ways very similar to what this movie (IMO, of course) should be, and is really quite good, I think.
Some of the other stuff on his resume scares me a little, but none of it (that I saw, at least) was all that terrible.
Posting the rest of the cast kind of kills your point. There are a number of fantastic actors on there...Freeman, Wilkinson, Caine...not so much Neeson anymore *cough cough*. Freeman alone is enough to give me high hopes for any movie. Bale absolutely shines in dark roles. Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai) and Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later) aren't well known (not in America, at least) but are also both extremely talented. And I always like a movie with Oldman in it a little more because of it.
And come on. Rutger Hauer! Blade Runner! "Six! Seven! Go to Hell or go to Heaven!" What kind of geek are you?
That non-linearity (without resorting to overwhelming Morrowind-levels) is what made many Black Isle games (namely Fallout) great. Since KoTOR has such a touted non-linear plot (which it doesn't, really, as everybody's pointed out) it makes sense to me that this 'new Black Isle' would do something a bit like that.
Argh, you're one of those idiots that crosses your eyes for the 3D "Magic Eye" pictures, aren't you? You don't cross them! You have them both look perfectly straight! Unfocused!
Note that it would be nearly impossible to play a game like that, it's like only watching in peripheral vision. Visual Boy was better since that wasn't an issue.
...because two hojillion megahertz are clearly superior to one hojillion megahertz. Logically, this machine must be exactly twice as much fun as a handheld game with only one hojillion megahertz.
I can barely control my excitement, because it is a given that Sony will eventually release the PSP2 with four hojillion megahertz. That amount of fun is sure to explode the heads of children and the elderly.
(The prediction in mine is more realistic, and yet more asinine. Wee.)
That looks pretty sweet, and from the little I can see, it does what you say with the differentiation and such. I really do hope that consistancy thing works out for you, because I'm sure you know as well as everybody else that the other two aren't really going to cut it.
Best of luck, I'll look into buying it when it comes out.
Exactly. People seem to forget that his depression is all a big accident, and that he wasn't designed that way. He was designed....well, to be just like Eddie, I suppose.
Well, as for the TV show, it may have been unfunny because it just turned out really, really bad. Though I did actually enjoy the even-cheesy-at-the-time special effects for the guide, Trillian ruined that whole damn thing for me.
Striving for realism is the key. You can't complain when a 2D picture looks realistic. It isn't trying to, and the game immerses you through other means. When a game gets more realistic, it starts to use those flashier graphics as immersion tools. Then every graphical imperfection can actually lead to less enjoyment of gameplay.
You can do remarkable strange things in 2D that would just look stupid in 3D. I can't really think of any stand-out examples right now, but I'm sure you all understand what I mean.
Or, if a person is merely matter, no transfer is possible. That's how I see it, at least.
As an example (I considered this only when somebody ELSE brought it up, by the way, and it was my girlfriend's philosophy professor) I think that Star Trek transporters kill the people every time they're used. The matter is dissassembled, the person dies. The matter is reassembled into a new person that's exactly the same. It's impossible to tell that the person died, however, since the person is exactly the same, from the point of view of others and even from the person themselves.
I don't think transfer of consiousness is possible, though this is more a philosophical question than a scientific one (for now!). Memories and personalities are just data. Consciousness is more ambiguous.
There's some religion mixed in with this question, of course. I'm a pure atheist, and believe that humans are nothing more than machines. I believe that 'consciousness,' really, is just an illusion, created by intensely complex mental processes. I do not believe that there is any fundamental difference between a computer and a human brain. Granted, the human brain is organized very, very differently, and it's far more powerful yet less precise. But I think a present-day computer is just as 'conscious' as a person is, if much less self-aware.
Duplication of the brain seems just as useless, from my perspective. It's just like having a clone of yourself. Sure, there's somebody who's just like you, yes, and nobody ELSE can tell the difference. But you, yourself, died. And you know what? Nobody would ever be able to prove it! The new person doesn't know it, because it remembers the old you's life. That's pretty creepy, I think.
I agree completely. I really am stunned that so many people believe for even a second that it isn't a advertising ploy, enough that they then have to post about how they don't think it's really hacked. Well, no shit, Mr. Holmes.
Also, I can't understand the people that are getting so upset about it. It's advertising, yes, but advertising that hooks you by being interesting, not by being intrusive. This is the only kind of advertising I like more than movie trailers, really.
I'm just gonna have fun with it as long as it lets me. I'm not even gonna buy Halo 2, one way or the other.
That implies that they become numerous. They don't, see. There's still just two. What they do is take revenge on the Jedi Order that wiped them out, by...well, wiping them out. It's quite fitting.
It is kind of upsetting. The Boba Fett described in the novels is a hell of a character. Strong values and sense of morality. Respect for authority, no matter who has it. Uncommon traits for a bounty hunter.
The person he's turned into in the movies is just your everyday bounty hunter. Those bounty hunters in Chronicles of Riddick have better characters than this guy.
Not all ifs are equal. Most businesses face ifs that are like, say, betting in poker. There's a risk, but you might profit.
With the XBox, it's a little different. It's more like...say...if you hang out at a freshly-post-meltdown nuclear reactor site, it's not exactly safe, but what if the radiation mutates your DNA and gives you the ability to shoot mind bullets!?!?
Well, maybe not, I don't know if mainstream usa is ready for final fantasy yet.
Well, there's your answer. I wouldn't personally say that your statement is true, but I bet a lot of people think it is. Basically, all the fantasy elements were stripped out of the movie. No magic! The most fantastic things were a bunch of alien ghosts.
I think a real Final Fantasy would have done fine, myself...certainly not worse. LotR (while I highly doubt a FF movie would approach those numbers) proved that America can suck up fantasy if it's presented well.
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Well, it serves a purpose to do so. I have no reason to even have Linux installed, ATM, since between 10-minute /. sessions, I'm just gaming (If I'm in front of the machine at all). In order to even justify the hard drive space for a Linux install, I'd need to be able to play a lot of games on it, and more than the ones Cedega officially supports. I know the supported ones run, at least, they'd damn well better. It's the unsupported ones that are worth a look.
I didn't mention Caine specifically. He's good, but he seems to just do whatever seems fun when it comes to roles. That's the impression that I got from some Goldmember-related interviews.
Also keep in mind that a lot of great actors, particularly British ones, as far as I can see, tend to be very reluctant to sign on to movies with bad scripts. And from what I know of the characters, the casting is quite good, as long as they're like the old versions. And the director seems talented enough to me (Memento). Indeed. High hopes, high hopes.
The writer did some bad stuff, that's clear/ But he also did Dark City, which is in many ways very similar to what this movie (IMO, of course) should be, and is really quite good, I think.
Some of the other stuff on his resume scares me a little, but none of it (that I saw, at least) was all that terrible.
Posting the rest of the cast kind of kills your point. There are a number of fantastic actors on there...Freeman, Wilkinson, Caine...not so much Neeson anymore *cough cough*. Freeman alone is enough to give me high hopes for any movie. Bale absolutely shines in dark roles. Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai) and Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later) aren't well known (not in America, at least) but are also both extremely talented. And I always like a movie with Oldman in it a little more because of it.
And come on. Rutger Hauer! Blade Runner! "Six! Seven! Go to Hell or go to Heaven!" What kind of geek are you?
That non-linearity (without resorting to overwhelming Morrowind-levels) is what made many Black Isle games (namely Fallout) great. Since KoTOR has such a touted non-linear plot (which it doesn't, really, as everybody's pointed out) it makes sense to me that this 'new Black Isle' would do something a bit like that.
I'm very optimistic about this game, really.
Argh, you're one of those idiots that crosses your eyes for the 3D "Magic Eye" pictures, aren't you? You don't cross them! You have them both look perfectly straight! Unfocused!
Note that it would be nearly impossible to play a game like that, it's like only watching in peripheral vision. Visual Boy was better since that wasn't an issue.
...because two hojillion megahertz are clearly superior to one hojillion megahertz. Logically, this machine must be exactly twice as much fun as a handheld game with only one hojillion megahertz.
I can barely control my excitement, because it is a given that Sony will eventually release the PSP2 with four hojillion megahertz. That amount of fun is sure to explode the heads of children and the elderly.
(The prediction in mine is more realistic, and yet more asinine. Wee.)
Quantity may not equal quality, but it sure as hell seems to equal insane sales numbers.
i may have to learn Japanese and import it if they don't release it here
And just hope the program allows you to make the game itself in English.
That looks pretty sweet, and from the little I can see, it does what you say with the differentiation and such. I really do hope that consistancy thing works out for you, because I'm sure you know as well as everybody else that the other two aren't really going to cut it.
Best of luck, I'll look into buying it when it comes out.
Not always. Just putting things where they don't belong is half of what makes HHGG funny. Like...well, the whale. Obviously.
Exactly. People seem to forget that his depression is all a big accident, and that he wasn't designed that way. He was designed....well, to be just like Eddie, I suppose.
Well, as for the TV show, it may have been unfunny because it just turned out really, really bad. Though I did actually enjoy the even-cheesy-at-the-time special effects for the guide, Trillian ruined that whole damn thing for me.
Um...did you just say you wanted HHGG to not have anything in it that doesn't make any sense? Did you really just say that?
It would have to be about five minutes long!
Striving for realism is the key. You can't complain when a 2D picture looks realistic. It isn't trying to, and the game immerses you through other means. When a game gets more realistic, it starts to use those flashier graphics as immersion tools. Then every graphical imperfection can actually lead to less enjoyment of gameplay.
You can do remarkable strange things in 2D that would just look stupid in 3D. I can't really think of any stand-out examples right now, but I'm sure you all understand what I mean.
Or, if a person is merely matter, no transfer is possible. That's how I see it, at least.
As an example (I considered this only when somebody ELSE brought it up, by the way, and it was my girlfriend's philosophy professor) I think that Star Trek transporters kill the people every time they're used. The matter is dissassembled, the person dies. The matter is reassembled into a new person that's exactly the same. It's impossible to tell that the person died, however, since the person is exactly the same, from the point of view of others and even from the person themselves.
I don't think transfer of consiousness is possible, though this is more a philosophical question than a scientific one (for now!). Memories and personalities are just data. Consciousness is more ambiguous.
There's some religion mixed in with this question, of course. I'm a pure atheist, and believe that humans are nothing more than machines. I believe that 'consciousness,' really, is just an illusion, created by intensely complex mental processes. I do not believe that there is any fundamental difference between a computer and a human brain. Granted, the human brain is organized very, very differently, and it's far more powerful yet less precise. But I think a present-day computer is just as 'conscious' as a person is, if much less self-aware.
Duplication of the brain seems just as useless, from my perspective. It's just like having a clone of yourself. Sure, there's somebody who's just like you, yes, and nobody ELSE can tell the difference. But you, yourself, died. And you know what? Nobody would ever be able to prove it! The new person doesn't know it, because it remembers the old you's life. That's pretty creepy, I think.
Maybe I'm wrong. Nobody knows. Possibly, nobody ever will. Oh well.
I agree completely. I really am stunned that so many people believe for even a second that it isn't a advertising ploy, enough that they then have to post about how they don't think it's really hacked. Well, no shit, Mr. Holmes.
Also, I can't understand the people that are getting so upset about it. It's advertising, yes, but advertising that hooks you by being interesting, not by being intrusive. This is the only kind of advertising I like more than movie trailers, really.
I'm just gonna have fun with it as long as it lets me. I'm not even gonna buy Halo 2, one way or the other.
That implies that they become numerous. They don't, see. There's still just two. What they do is take revenge on the Jedi Order that wiped them out, by...well, wiping them out. It's quite fitting.
It is kind of upsetting. The Boba Fett described in the novels is a hell of a character. Strong values and sense of morality. Respect for authority, no matter who has it. Uncommon traits for a bounty hunter.
The person he's turned into in the movies is just your everyday bounty hunter. Those bounty hunters in Chronicles of Riddick have better characters than this guy.
We can lack lives together.
Yes. I probably am.
Most of the time when Americans eat, it's out of habit, not because we truly need the energy.
Hey, don't speak for me. I eat when I start to have difficulty standing. Just because I'm that fucking lazy.
Not all ifs are equal. Most businesses face ifs that are like, say, betting in poker. There's a risk, but you might profit.
With the XBox, it's a little different. It's more like...say...if you hang out at a freshly-post-meltdown nuclear reactor site, it's not exactly safe, but what if the radiation mutates your DNA and gives you the ability to shoot mind bullets!?!?
Well, maybe not, I don't know if mainstream usa is ready for final fantasy yet.
Well, there's your answer. I wouldn't personally say that your statement is true, but I bet a lot of people think it is. Basically, all the fantasy elements were stripped out of the movie. No magic! The most fantastic things were a bunch of alien ghosts.
I think a real Final Fantasy would have done fine, myself...certainly not worse. LotR (while I highly doubt a FF movie would approach those numbers) proved that America can suck up fantasy if it's presented well.