You do know that playing a 2d platformer on said machine doesn't prevent you from also playing the Ghost Recon game? I hope you're not using the web bowser on your $4000 whizbang device. The machine is a little byeond IE or Firefox.
"all sufficiently different as to give Damon credit as a good actor."
Out of those movies, the only one I haven't seen is Bagger Vance. I guess you are entitled to your opinion but I certainly do not share it. In every instance you mentioned above except for maybe the Bourne movies, I've always felt like I'm watching Matt Damon as character X instead of just watching character X.
The fact that you don't even remember Affleck's part in Shakespeare in Love is proof that he doesn't have that same sore thumb affect though he is certainly a lesser actor.
"Good Will Hunting was exactly like Bourne Identity and Dogma?"
No, Matt Damon's acting is painfully identical in Good Will Hunting, Bourne Identity, and Dogma, despite the character being very different in all three movies.
"Besides Damon will make at least as good a Kirk as Val Kilmer was Batman."
Somehow that doesn't make me feel any better about the decision. Maybe if Damon would make as good a Kirk as Kilmer made a Chris Knight...
"It easily worked out if McCoy is relatively-new instructor at the Academy,... Spock and Kirk, needless to say, have to take this class."
If that's the storyline, then it's too bad Sean Penn is too old to play young Kirk and Ray Walston is too dead to play young McCoy. Then all you'd need is a few Pat Benatar lookalikes and a naked Pheobe Cates to have a very watchable movie.
No, Matt by himself plays one good role and he plays it in every frickin movie he's ever been in. He's like John Wayne or Kevin Costner (sans Bull Durham). You model your screenplay around Damon, not the other way around. And knowing the Damon part, I have my doubts as to how good a Capt Kirk he can be.
Affleck on the other hand is a bordeline decent actor and can play different roles to some degree but like Chevy Chase, he doesn't seem to know how to turn down a part.
I can't remember if it was a needed item, but it certainly made Mario Clash a lot more playable. You threw with one directional and moved with the other. It made it possible to throw in a direction you weren't already moving in instead of facing you character and then pressing the button.
Fair enough. I imagine there will be quite a few folks here and there that have to work around horsepower issues; however, console developers have been dealing with such issues for a long time now. Many of them find rather inventive ways to get a game to do what they want it to with the hardware provided.
Does anyone get the idea that someone just took a stack of circa-1994 EGM and Gamepro magazines and just picked out random ads to put here? I mean, some of these are bad, but they're hardly the worst I've seen. In fact, these ads seem to me to be par for the course in that era. And to be honest, I thought the Lords of Thunder ad was decent even if their math was a bit lacking. I wasn't in awe over it but I don't remember thinking it entirely stupid when I first saw it.
"According to Technology Review, the $100 laptop intended for children in the developing world will be powered in much the same way that you might start an outboard motor on a boat."
I used to start my old outboard by priming the fuel bulb, choking a bit and starting it with the electric starter. Seems like a lot of steps just to turn on a computer. Then again, it was a lot of steps just to start a boat so I got one with eletric fuel pump, choke, and starter. Now I just turn the key.
I used to spend about as much time playing Dune II as the current crop of WoW players spend playing. I seem to remember a bunch of the older PC games requiring massive amounts of time and effort to finish or even to get tired of. Maybe we're just back to that point in the cycle of things that PC gamers prefer a massive time sink over a bunch Max Payne-ish games that are fun but short. The industry would certainly respond to that by producing fewer games but at the same time, they'd have to pack those games with a lot of content to be competitive. That sort of thing won't neccessarily lead to the doom and gloom of less innovation and sequel churning that you expect simply because every game released really has to count.
No, they did not. They released a dumbed down version of the original SMB2 for American and European audiences. From the Wiki:
"Neither of these rereleased versions [SMB All Stars and SMB Deluxe] of the game are absolutely true to the original. Aside from the save feature and improved graphics, extra power-ups and 1-ups were peppered throughout the levels, and hidden power-ups were placed in plain sight. Red Piranha Plants, which would originally come out even if Mario or Luigi were next to or on the edge of the pipe, would not emerge if the player was standing on the center of the pipe."
If you've ever played the Famicom version of SMB2, you WILL notice the differences after a few levels.
Did anyone else read "Torchwood" instead of "Touchwood" at first glance? No wonder they were being so secretive about the project. I thought for a second Infinium Labs was working with alien technology provided by the British government.
Shouldn't CS be exciting enough as it is if you're planning on persuing it as a degree? I went through the CS program at UGA back in the late 90's when everbody and their brother was looking to get a CS degree because of the dot com boom. There were a lot of people who just didn't belong in the program. They were folks who just weren't excited about computer science. They would moan and complain when they had to do assignments that required any real though and they'd never try out anything being taught in class that wasn't specifically assigned. They just shouldn't have been there. They would've been happier in some other major. And these were folks who were swayed by the prospect of a high paying career. Imagine the quality of folks you'd sway by offering a shiny robot.
Most of my CS professors just assigned books that would be helpful to have on your professional bookshelf and taught us what they pleased. I have plenty of $80+ books (never a $100 though) that I've never needed for class but have helped out a lot since then. The most important IMHO being my Algorithms textbook.
How is Zzyzzyxx not on the list but Bad Dudes vs. Drangon Ninja is? Bad Dudes was a sweet name on an awesome (at the time) game. Zzyzzyxx wasn't even pronounceable. How were you supposed to talk to your friends about it (not that it was worth talking about).
"if it runs the same software, a lot of vendors may not see any reason for an open-source, Linux-compatible, etc. version of their product"
I'm getting tired of this argument. There's not a lot of Linux-compatible, open-source, etc. versions of most software now. Do you really think there's about to be this massive amount of previously windows-only commercial software GPLd as long that darn ReactOS doesn't come around and screw things up?
It means that when the game is rushed out the door unfinished in order to meet a deadline, at least the portions that are completed will actually work.
There are still some real hardware hackers out there but it's getting harder to casually hack hardware nowadays. Radio Shack is a bleedin cell phone store now. Home Depot and Lowe's have picked up some of the slack but to go out and casually play with hardware is a lot harder than it used to be. I still remember my first hardware hack. I made my NES a top loader by taking a Game Genie (for the socket), a ton of wire, a soldering iron, and some screws and removing that stupid ZIF socket once and for all. My parents were mortified that I would do that to my 6 month old $150 toy. I later did a similar front-loader fix mod for a friend where I soldered the zif connectors together and epoxied a dowel in place to keep him from pushing down the cart and breaking the solder points. All the functionality without any of the parental mortification. Those were the days. Nowadays, I spend my time "hacking" on non-computer equipment. I build my own brewing equipment and just got finished building a wakeboard pylon for my boat. I think a lot of people are moving their hacking into those sorts of hobbyist areas.
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You do know that playing a 2d platformer on said machine doesn't prevent you from also playing the Ghost Recon game? I hope you're not using the web bowser on your $4000 whizbang device. The machine is a little byeond IE or Firefox.
"all sufficiently different as to give Damon credit as a good actor." Out of those movies, the only one I haven't seen is Bagger Vance. I guess you are entitled to your opinion but I certainly do not share it. In every instance you mentioned above except for maybe the Bourne movies, I've always felt like I'm watching Matt Damon as character X instead of just watching character X. The fact that you don't even remember Affleck's part in Shakespeare in Love is proof that he doesn't have that same sore thumb affect though he is certainly a lesser actor.
"Good Will Hunting was exactly like Bourne Identity and Dogma?"
No, Matt Damon's acting is painfully identical in Good Will Hunting, Bourne Identity, and Dogma, despite the character being very different in all three movies.
"Besides Damon will make at least as good a Kirk as Val Kilmer was Batman."
Somehow that doesn't make me feel any better about the decision. Maybe if Damon would make as good a Kirk as Kilmer made a Chris Knight...
Since they won the lawsuit, the pizza isn't free. That's a good thing though because I hear the pizza was really just an empty box.
The characters are wildy different but the acting is brutally similar.
"It easily worked out if McCoy is relatively-new instructor at the Academy,... Spock and Kirk, needless to say, have to take this class."
If that's the storyline, then it's too bad Sean Penn is too old to play young Kirk and Ray Walston is too dead to play young McCoy. Then all you'd need is a few Pat Benatar lookalikes and a naked Pheobe Cates to have a very watchable movie.
"Matt, by himself, is a good actor."
No, Matt by himself plays one good role and he plays it in every frickin movie he's ever been in. He's like John Wayne or Kevin Costner (sans Bull Durham). You model your screenplay around Damon, not the other way around. And knowing the Damon part, I have my doubts as to how good a Capt Kirk he can be.
Affleck on the other hand is a bordeline decent actor and can play different roles to some degree but like Chevy Chase, he doesn't seem to know how to turn down a part.
I can't remember if it was a needed item, but it certainly made Mario Clash a lot more playable. You threw with one directional and moved with the other. It made it possible to throw in a direction you weren't already moving in instead of facing you character and then pressing the button.
Fair enough. I imagine there will be quite a few folks here and there that have to work around horsepower issues; however, console developers have been dealing with such issues for a long time now. Many of them find rather inventive ways to get a game to do what they want it to with the hardware provided.
No, not "some developers." A developer as in the singular tense is all you've linked to here.
Also check out the Alien Vs. Predator Jaguar ad that's in the related videos from your link. That was probably the best ad Atari ever did.
Does anyone get the idea that someone just took a stack of circa-1994 EGM and Gamepro magazines and just picked out random ads to put here? I mean, some of these are bad, but they're hardly the worst I've seen. In fact, these ads seem to me to be par for the course in that era. And to be honest, I thought the Lords of Thunder ad was decent even if their math was a bit lacking. I wasn't in awe over it but I don't remember thinking it entirely stupid when I first saw it.
I'm not sure but I'm pretty sure I've been getting emails telling me how I can make it bigger and/or longer.
"According to Technology Review, the $100 laptop intended for children in the developing world will be powered in much the same way that you might start an outboard motor on a boat."
I used to start my old outboard by priming the fuel bulb, choking a bit and starting it with the electric starter. Seems like a lot of steps just to turn on a computer. Then again, it was a lot of steps just to start a boat so I got one with eletric fuel pump, choke, and starter. Now I just turn the key.
I used to spend about as much time playing Dune II as the current crop of WoW players spend playing. I seem to remember a bunch of the older PC games requiring massive amounts of time and effort to finish or even to get tired of. Maybe we're just back to that point in the cycle of things that PC gamers prefer a massive time sink over a bunch Max Payne-ish games that are fun but short. The industry would certainly respond to that by producing fewer games but at the same time, they'd have to pack those games with a lot of content to be competitive. That sort of thing won't neccessarily lead to the doom and gloom of less innovation and sequel churning that you expect simply because every game released really has to count.
"They DID release the original Mario Bros. 2,"
No, they did not. They released a dumbed down version of the original SMB2 for American and European audiences. From the Wiki:
"Neither of these rereleased versions [SMB All Stars and SMB Deluxe] of the game are absolutely true to the original. Aside from the save feature and improved graphics, extra power-ups and 1-ups were peppered throughout the levels, and hidden power-ups were placed in plain sight. Red Piranha Plants, which would originally come out even if Mario or Luigi were next to or on the edge of the pipe, would not emerge if the player was standing on the center of the pipe."
If you've ever played the Famicom version of SMB2, you WILL notice the differences after a few levels.
Dude, that's not your Grandpa! It's a Cyberman.
Did anyone else read "Torchwood" instead of "Touchwood" at first glance? No wonder they were being so secretive about the project. I thought for a second Infinium Labs was working with alien technology provided by the British government.
Shouldn't CS be exciting enough as it is if you're planning on persuing it as a degree? I went through the CS program at UGA back in the late 90's when everbody and their brother was looking to get a CS degree because of the dot com boom. There were a lot of people who just didn't belong in the program. They were folks who just weren't excited about computer science. They would moan and complain when they had to do assignments that required any real though and they'd never try out anything being taught in class that wasn't specifically assigned. They just shouldn't have been there. They would've been happier in some other major. And these were folks who were swayed by the prospect of a high paying career. Imagine the quality of folks you'd sway by offering a shiny robot.
Most of my CS professors just assigned books that would be helpful to have on your professional bookshelf and taught us what they pleased. I have plenty of $80+ books (never a $100 though) that I've never needed for class but have helped out a lot since then. The most important IMHO being my Algorithms textbook.
How is Zzyzzyxx not on the list but Bad Dudes vs. Drangon Ninja is? Bad Dudes was a sweet name on an awesome (at the time) game. Zzyzzyxx wasn't even pronounceable. How were you supposed to talk to your friends about it (not that it was worth talking about).
I'm BAD! This list, however, is not.
"if it runs the same software, a lot of vendors may not see any reason for an open-source, Linux-compatible, etc. version of their product"
I'm getting tired of this argument. There's not a lot of Linux-compatible, open-source, etc. versions of most software now. Do you really think there's about to be this massive amount of previously windows-only commercial software GPLd as long that darn ReactOS doesn't come around and screw things up?
It means that when the game is rushed out the door unfinished in order to meet a deadline, at least the portions that are completed will actually work.
There are still some real hardware hackers out there but it's getting harder to casually hack hardware nowadays. Radio Shack is a bleedin cell phone store now. Home Depot and Lowe's have picked up some of the slack but to go out and casually play with hardware is a lot harder than it used to be. I still remember my first hardware hack. I made my NES a top loader by taking a Game Genie (for the socket), a ton of wire, a soldering iron, and some screws and removing that stupid ZIF socket once and for all. My parents were mortified that I would do that to my 6 month old $150 toy. I later did a similar front-loader fix mod for a friend where I soldered the zif connectors together and epoxied a dowel in place to keep him from pushing down the cart and breaking the solder points. All the functionality without any of the parental mortification. Those were the days. Nowadays, I spend my time "hacking" on non-computer equipment. I build my own brewing equipment and just got finished building a wakeboard pylon for my boat. I think a lot of people are moving their hacking into those sorts of hobbyist areas.
That's why the Gamecube comes in all those colors.