After a point though everything gets to be the same just with different characters, then I got bored and went back to fragging in Team Fortress 2 or exploring more stuff in Fallout: New Vegas.
New Vegas keeps me engaged just like Fallout 3 did, I still haven't played all the content yet and there are still parts on my map I've never been to (not counting DLC). TF2 is a twitch game I can pick up and play for an hour.
LA Noire kinda wedges in the middle, I like investigating / chasing / shooting idea and I like the context / story but damn, it's like one of those films where there is no pacing and my interest just falls out midway through.
I guess that's the down side to story-driven stuff, if there is no pacing it's gonna fall flat. Likewise with Portal 2 (loved it but) once you've been through the story there's not much point playing it again, moreso than Portal because in the original it seemed like the puzzles were a little more flexible in that you could solve them in more creative ways. I don't know why this seems to be, but it is.
I'm not up on my recording history but if memory serves there was no amplification, so you had to yell into a funnel to make the cylinder etching device leave an impression in the wax master.
I've been reading/watching a lot of old sci-fi lately and one of the features that keeps popping up is the idea of a Lagrange point making a moon/mars trip possible.
I mean if you wanted to go to Mars, land and come back you wouldn't do it quite like a trip to the moon. Ideally you build the ship in space at a Lagrange point then shuttle the fuel, men and equipment up there. Then send a ship with a lander capable of breaking Mars orbit AND either a decent sized orbiter for the trip back or park another Lagrange point in relation to Mars before you even go, stop there and gas up and leave.
Expensive and time consuming maybe but I think more dependable.
Well, they're probably more diverse than the crowd that used to come over and talk shop, I will grant you that, but people did come over and talk shop. This was not a rarity.
Again, I can understand the impetus to do so in an urban setting, I don't understand the self-applied labels though.
Now see that makes sense, I bet there are a lot of people who'd like to get started tinkering but don't know the basics, that's a great way to link people together.
I'll probably feel the burn for this one but I have lots of karma...
I understand that people living in large cities may not get the chance to own a house with a spare room or a garage but is it really necessary to badge themselves? By the loose definition here I know a great "hacker" and I've been to an awesome "hackerspace" (he's my dad, and it's his garage).
At what point did building stuff on your own become something so rare?
I understand the fun in building something yourself, designing/making something new or just tinkering around with something old or broken and making it work but I just call myself a "regular person".
I don't know why being creative in the "industrial arts" has gained hipster status...
I bought a new TV and it didn't have SD hookups, given that I've had my DVD player since '99 I figured it was time to upgrade.
I could care less about the BluRay player, the feature that had me interested was the fact that it can stream MKVs over my network. I've taken the Herculean task of ripping my current DVD collection to MKV so that I don't have to play detective and look for missing/misplaced discs anymore.
That said, I have a couple of BluRay discs now, a couple came in those DVD/BluRay combo packs, I actually purchased "Dark City" (finally a good transfer!).
I think I'm getting done purchasing disc media altogether, it's bulky and largely pointless. Especially digging through the collection and asking myself "why did I buy this?".
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To be fair, it's a personal depth record of that particular submersible.
Still, pretty cool, lots of stuff to see down there still I bet.
Was set by the Trieste on January 23, 1960 at a depth of 10,911 meters (35,797 ft).
I suspect it means that consoles will have some kind of "suck it" flag which excludes them from hosted content.
Meanwhile PC modders will continue having fun.
Well then I would suspect that the orbit is dangerously low and the last message would likely read: "Ack!"
I liked LA Noire for about the first two thirds.
After a point though everything gets to be the same just with different characters, then I got bored and went back to fragging in Team Fortress 2 or exploring more stuff in Fallout: New Vegas.
New Vegas keeps me engaged just like Fallout 3 did, I still haven't played all the content yet and there are still parts on my map I've never been to (not counting DLC). TF2 is a twitch game I can pick up and play for an hour.
LA Noire kinda wedges in the middle, I like investigating / chasing / shooting idea and I like the context / story but damn, it's like one of those films where there is no pacing and my interest just falls out midway through.
I guess that's the down side to story-driven stuff, if there is no pacing it's gonna fall flat. Likewise with Portal 2 (loved it but) once you've been through the story there's not much point playing it again, moreso than Portal because in the original it seemed like the puzzles were a little more flexible in that you could solve them in more creative ways. I don't know why this seems to be, but it is.
Rough notes were flogged into the backs of peasants
I'm not up on my recording history but if memory serves there was no amplification, so you had to yell into a funnel to make the cylinder etching device leave an impression in the wax master.
I seeEE you!
For me there isn't enough contrast. Gray text on black doesn't stand out.
I wouldn't have had an issue with it if it was configurable, but it isn't.
It's not the tool, it's the people who use it.
From reading the FAQ, no.
Well, that's the joy of science. You work using models you can't disprove, until they are disproved, then you work under new models.
I finally upgraded my home equipment to at least support IPV6 the problem though is that my provider doesn't support it.
So I have the boat now I'm just waiting for the sea to fill up around me.
The word "arm" conveys several meanings, one of which is branch or division.
We've tried nothin' and we're all out of ideas...
Seriously, next batch of research missions should be various cleaning devices to see what they can do and how well they do it.
That would be way more hilarious heh!
"Trollspace": where Trolls troll Trolls
Trolls usually equip themselves with multiple accounts, I think they'd figure that little goodie out rather quickly
Or LEO with a super-cannon...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP
I've been reading/watching a lot of old sci-fi lately and one of the features that keeps popping up is the idea of a Lagrange point making a moon/mars trip possible.
I mean if you wanted to go to Mars, land and come back you wouldn't do it quite like a trip to the moon. Ideally you build the ship in space at a Lagrange point then shuttle the fuel, men and equipment up there. Then send a ship with a lander capable of breaking Mars orbit AND either a decent sized orbiter for the trip back or park another Lagrange point in relation to Mars before you even go, stop there and gas up and leave.
Expensive and time consuming maybe but I think more dependable.
That makes a lot of sense, wish I could mod you up :)
Well, they're probably more diverse than the crowd that used to come over and talk shop, I will grant you that, but people did come over and talk shop. This was not a rarity.
Again, I can understand the impetus to do so in an urban setting, I don't understand the self-applied labels though.
Now see that makes sense, I bet there are a lot of people who'd like to get started tinkering but don't know the basics, that's a great way to link people together.
I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned in the article.
I'll probably feel the burn for this one but I have lots of karma...
I understand that people living in large cities may not get the chance to own a house with a spare room or a garage but is it really necessary to badge themselves? By the loose definition here I know a great "hacker" and I've been to an awesome "hackerspace" (he's my dad, and it's his garage).
At what point did building stuff on your own become something so rare?
I understand the fun in building something yourself, designing/making something new or just tinkering around with something old or broken and making it work but I just call myself a "regular person".
I don't know why being creative in the "industrial arts" has gained hipster status...
*blip* We have signs of life!!
Oh no, wait, sorry, cat just ran by the television and caught the peripheral vision of the subject...
I bought a new TV and it didn't have SD hookups, given that I've had my DVD player since '99 I figured it was time to upgrade.
I could care less about the BluRay player, the feature that had me interested was the fact that it can stream MKVs over my network. I've taken the Herculean task of ripping my current DVD collection to MKV so that I don't have to play detective and look for missing/misplaced discs anymore.
That said, I have a couple of BluRay discs now, a couple came in those DVD/BluRay combo packs, I actually purchased "Dark City" (finally a good transfer!).
I think I'm getting done purchasing disc media altogether, it's bulky and largely pointless. Especially digging through the collection and asking myself "why did I buy this?".