So really what should happen is that games should be based on movies that were released long ago.. For instance, take the Star Wars games. The old ones (Dark Forces, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, etc.), were great and were also released independant of and movie release. The newer SW games, however seem to be released around the same time as the new movies, and they blow. Same thing with Blade Runner. That was released years after the movie. It turned out well. Enter the Matrix, however, well, we all know how that went.
How about games made from book licenses? I think there's more untapped potential there. It leaves more to the developers' imaginations, gives them more creative license. In particular, a MMORPG based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld would be awesome. I know there is one out there, but with a concurrent user limit of 300, I'm not sure it woudl qualify as an MMORPG. A higher tech commercial offereing would be pretty sweet. That's one I would be willing to plunk down $10 a month for.
I apologize, this was supposed to be in reply to the "Kike Thomas" story. (The first one, not the second, third, fourth, or even any in between that and the sixth one.)
I think the coolest thing is that even though we will have an ice age, there will be a regular "spring" during this ice age, where things will not be so ice-agey.
I agree about the names, "splink" seemed like a racial slur gone horribly wrong... I was thinking some good ones would be "killuffalo" and "battlecattle".
I was watching animal planet's show about this tonight, and was not all that impressed. They seemed to have a lot of information that they could not back up with respect to how evolution would take place, and why for certain species and not others. I found many holes in their "plots", including the fact that they did not account for any technology that humans would leave behind when they left the planet. It was as if they (we)had left and taken all traces of their (our) existence with them...
Screw "possible scientific research." This is awesome. The people at NASA didn't care about research, they just wanted to have some fun with their toy in its last moments, true to the hacker spirit
Yea, and checking out who's using Napster to download illegal mp3's, who's running a pirated ersion of Windows, that sort of thing. Also, all those junkmail companies have a new way of gathering statistics on people, no more buying mailing lists for them.
I'd be willing to bet that this whole plan was devised and implemented by hackers hired by directTV. Who else woudl be able to do something as clever as that?
It doesn't have to be this way. Remember, we are the ones with the real knowledge, so we are the ones with the real power. We have an army, and we could bring down the governement. Everything that the country is built upon is dependant upon us hackers. The President is merely a figurehead. No matter how hard he tries, he'll never succeed in bringing down equality and democracy in America.
In another case of misplacd blame, many prominennt former supporters of Ralph Nader are blaming Ralph for the loss of this election. How can we blame him? For presenting voters with a chance to vote for a person who they would actually want to be their president? They obviously aren't looking for progress, but just trying to maintain the status quo. Why would they support him in the first place if they really didn't want him to become president? This whole situation is ludicrous. Democrats have to face the facts: The candidate that they picked, Al Gore, was not fit to be president of the United States. When Ralph Nader ran for president 4 years ago, he didn't cost the democrats the presidency. Why is this? Because the democratic candidate was not a complete failure. Clinton was a well liked president, despite a couple of problems regarding his morals, and Ralph nader presnted no challenge to him winning the presidency. Nader didn't take this election away from the democrats, Gore did.
Al Gore should NOT start working on 2004. I guarantee you that Al Gore will never again be nominated for presidency. His campaign was horrendous. Blame Nader all you want for his loss, but the reason Al Gore lost this election is simple: Al Gore is an asshole.
I don't even look at online documentation. It's a pain in the ass to try and run an application and try and figure out how to use it on the same screen. I have to be able to look at both at once.
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So really what should happen is that games should be based on movies that were released long ago.. For instance, take the Star Wars games. The old ones (Dark Forces, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, etc.), were great and were also released independant of and movie release. The newer SW games, however seem to be released around the same time as the new movies, and they blow. Same thing with Blade Runner. That was released years after the movie. It turned out well. Enter the Matrix, however, well, we all know how that went.
How about games made from book licenses? I think there's more untapped potential there. It leaves more to the developers' imaginations, gives them more creative license. In particular, a MMORPG based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld would be awesome. I know there is one out there, but with a concurrent user limit of 300, I'm not sure it woudl qualify as an MMORPG. A higher tech commercial offereing would be pretty sweet. That's one I would be willing to plunk down $10 a month for.
I apologize, this was supposed to be in reply to the "Kike Thomas" story. (The first one, not the second, third, fourth, or even any in between that and the sixth one.)
... yet another argument to add to the many that advocate the end of "anonymous coward" postings.
Probably because the dolphins knew what was good for them and decided to up and leave long before us humans did.
I think the coolest thing is that even though we will have an ice age, there will be a regular "spring" during this ice age, where things will not be so ice-agey.
The post that this post is in reply to makes only slightly less sense than the show on Animal Planetabout evolution.
It's unfortunate that they didn't tell more of the story of the stray probe that ended up in the Hoth system...
I agree about the names, "splink" seemed like a racial slur gone horribly wrong... I was thinking some good ones would be "killuffalo" and "battlecattle".
I was watching animal planet's show about this tonight, and was not all that impressed. They seemed to have a lot of information that they could not back up with respect to how evolution would take place, and why for certain species and not others. I found many holes in their "plots", including the fact that they did not account for any technology that humans would leave behind when they left the planet. It was as if they (we)had left and taken all traces of their (our) existence with them...
If you could fight any celebrity, who would it be?
Screw it, I've given up DNS. I just sit there with the list and resolve the addresses myself.
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Screw "possible scientific research." This is awesome. The people at NASA didn't care about research, they just wanted to have some fun with their toy in its last moments, true to the hacker spirit
Yea, and checking out who's using Napster to download illegal mp3's, who's running a pirated ersion of Windows, that sort of thing. Also, all those junkmail companies have a new way of gathering statistics on people, no more buying mailing lists for them.
StarOffice by Sun Microsystems can read and write .doc
I'd be willing to bet that this whole plan was devised and implemented by hackers hired by directTV. Who else woudl be able to do something as clever as that?
It doesn't have to be this way. Remember, we are the ones with the real knowledge, so we are the ones with the real power. We have an army, and we could bring down the governement. Everything that the country is built upon is dependant upon us hackers. The President is merely a figurehead. No matter how hard he tries, he'll never succeed in bringing down equality and democracy in America.
In another case of misplacd blame, many prominennt former supporters of Ralph Nader are blaming Ralph for the loss of this election. How can we blame him? For presenting voters with a chance to vote for a person who they would actually want to be their president? They obviously aren't looking for progress, but just trying to maintain the status quo. Why would they support him in the first place if they really didn't want him to become president? This whole situation is ludicrous. Democrats have to face the facts: The candidate that they picked, Al Gore, was not fit to be president of the United States. When Ralph Nader ran for president 4 years ago, he didn't cost the democrats the presidency. Why is this? Because the democratic candidate was not a complete failure. Clinton was a well liked president, despite a couple of problems regarding his morals, and Ralph nader presnted no challenge to him winning the presidency. Nader didn't take this election away from the democrats, Gore did.
Al Gore should NOT start working on 2004. I guarantee you that Al Gore will never again be nominated for presidency. His campaign was horrendous. Blame Nader all you want for his loss, but the reason Al Gore lost this election is simple: Al Gore is an asshole.
Incompetent people are citizens too, and are therefore protected by the constitution, which guarantees them the right to vote.
Well, I guess that assumption was imminent, however, it is congress, not the president who decides to give federal workers raises.
I don't even look at online documentation. It's a pain in the ass to try and run an application and try and figure out how to use it on the same screen. I have to be able to look at both at once.