Small size - Gameboy
More games - Gameboy
Loyalty of fans to games like mario, metriod, double dragon, Zelda, etc - Gameboy
Combine that with the better battery life, and you see that there's more to the gameboy's success than just power. The Game Gear had a lot of bells and whistles, but the gameboy had the core elements of lots of good games with solid gameplay and a long battery. Why would you trade those items for things like a TV tuner? You don't buy a portable game system to do things other than play games (look at the N-Gage).
I should never go down there, because I would probably torment the penguins. Am I the only one who's curious about what it would be like to run through a flock of penguins to see if it would it be anything like running through a flock of pigeons?
Back in the exploration days of Columbus, the native Americans were infected by diseases from Europe and Europe got a few bugs in return. These people were living on the same planet and managed to be isolated from each other so that they didn't have the diseases that the other group had. So looking at that, it doesn't seem likely that the earth would be protected from martian bacteria just because some interplanetary rocks have reached earth in the past. If bacteria can't find a natural way to cross the atlantic ocean without a carrier, I'll wager that they'll have a harder time crossing the vacuum of space without a carrier.
The internet will give you what you want: games, news (domestic or international, biased or unbiased, depending on your preference), pr0n, sports info on your favorite team, shopping, news for nerds, stuff that matters, etc. Whatever you want you can get on demand on the internet. Meanwhile, TV sucks. TV tells you what you should be watching (Look, reality shows, craptacular sitcoms!!), and they make you watch it on their schedule, and they blitz you with overhyped flavor of the month celebrities and commercials every 5 minutes. That's why things like TIVO are becoming very popular. TV sucks, so people are getting a life outside of TV, but there will still be 2 or 3 shows you'll watch all the time, but it's stupid when I have to say "Well, I would like to go out this evening, but I really want to see Enterprise." TV is losing it's grip over the population because we now have an alternative to having to just accept whatever they choose to give us.
I've always thought that this kind of hacking would not be a problem once internet technology gets suitably advanced. Once everyone has super fast internet connections, you wouldn't need to have the program stored on your own system where punks can work at hacking it. All you would do is buy an account, and then everytime you wanted to play, you would download a fresh copy of the program. You play for however you want, and then you log off, and the program is ereased off your computer (or maybe if you're afraid of having a remote computer deleting programs, it can stay on your hard drive). Then the next time you want to play, you download the program again, thus ensuring that you and everyone else is always playing with a non-hacked version of the program. Your character and his equipment would be stored on the server, so that couldn't be hacked either. So the elimination of punks is only a matter of time.
An advance copy of the script show that the movie starts out with Indy three days away from retiring as professor of archeology when he's sent on a quest to retrive the Talisman of Zohoma. After negotiating the traps of the temple and narrowly avoiding being blown up by a neo-nazi patrol, Indy comments on how he's "Getting too old for this shit."
Am I the only one who heard the "Breeeep" sound and saw a giant exclamation point over the moniter when I read the headline? These video game movies don't have a very good track record, and I'm afraid of how they're going to change Solid Snake to fit the hollywood cookie cutter hero mold.
The problem with the current brand of video game movies is that hollywood is trying to cater to everyone at the same time, because that's what will potentially make the big bucks (Look at pixar, they make movies that appeal to kids, teenagers, and adults, so they rake in tons of cash). The problem is that the video games that we love are tailored to appeal to the gamers of the world. Hollywood then gets their claws into it, and applies their own brand of bastardization to it, things like "all male characters must have a love interest", or "Colorful props and cheezy acting will sell a video game movie". Lets say they try to make a Legend of Zelda movie, the hollywood monkeys will probably say things like this.
Hollywood Monkey - "Instead of Link being a young man, let's make him a 40-something former hero who's called out of retirement because Zelda has been captured by Gannandorf again. Instead of a green tunic, lets make him wear white chain mail armor. Swords have been overdone, so lets make him weild the "master spear". Also, we'll write in a 20 minute love scene between him and Zelda."
Nintendo - "Ummm, I don't think that's so great. You're changing Link from the character we've created and made a dozen games from. While we hinted at a relationship between Link and Zelda, we never actually played it out."
Hollywood Monkey - "Great, people will be looking forward to their scene. Now, for actors. I see Steven Segal as Link, Tim Curry as Gannon, and (Insert supermodel flavor of the week) as Zelda."
Nintendo - "Ummm, I suppose, I guess. What about the Triforce. That's a big part of the Zelda series."
Hollywood Monkey - "Tri-what-now? It doesn't matter, it'll just get in the way."
And the meeting will only go downhill from there. Now, when this movie is released, the gamers out there will be like "WTF? This isn't the legend of Zelda that I love. What happened?" and the regular people will be like "Man, this movie sucks. It's based of a video game, so it obviously must suck to, and gamers who like that game must suck." and then the gamers are like "No, this isn't our game. We hate the movie too, but the game really is awesome." and Hollywood is like "Man, video games suck, you can't make a decent movie out of them." and so forth. There's also something to be said about the inherant problems of taking video games which are built around player interaction, and trying to make a movie out of them, which is meant to just be watched. The stories would have to be fundamentally different to make them work.
It reminds me of a story I read in some "World's dumbest criminals" book. The cops picked up a burgler and took him to a room for questioning. They took a colendar and glued some wires to it, and glued the other end of the wires to a copy machine. Inside the copy machine, they placed a sheet of paper with the words "HE'S LYING" written on it. They sat the crook down in front of the machine with the colendar strapped to his head and questioned him. Whenever the cops suspected his answers were full of BS, they pushed the copy button and it spit out a page that said "HE'S LYING". The crook believing it was a legit lie detector then confessed to the crime.
Games like call of duty don't get flak because the characters are nameless and faceless. It's not a big deal when you have a generic allied soldier killing a generic nazi soldier. This though is specifically about a well known and respected leader of our country. As for reinactments on the history channel, that's telling you the facts of a tragic event in our history. This game is more about seeing how many different ways you can kill Kennedy, and like all other FPS's, it'll inevitablly be followed by a video of someone running over to the convoy and humping his body. To bring a more modern context to the game, how would you feel about a flight simulator game where you had to fly a 747 into the World Trade centers, or the pentagon?
I'm just worried they will try to give Master Chief a romantic interest
That's true, but there is a way they could work it in. MC is a pretty awesome dude, so it's quite possible that a female protagonist would develop a crush on him. Things would be ruined though if MC started getting all romantic and junk, since that's just not his style. Here's the best way a love scene could work out.
Blondie McBigrack- "I love you Master Chief"
Master Chief- "I know" (Master Chief whips out machine gun, spends next 20 minutes killing covenant grunts)
If I recall correctly, it was this topic which killed talks on the Half Life movie. When the hollywood producers started talking about Gordon's love interest, that's when the Half Life guys said "That's enough, we're not going there with Gordon, that's not who he is" and ended the discussions.
While the situation with these programmers is obviously pretty bad, why is everyone so appalled at the concept of putting in long hours at the end of a project? The so called "crunch time" has been around forever. When we were in college, how often were we given a paper to write with a deadline in two weeks, but we procrastinated for 12 days and then spend the last two days burried in the library cursing the professor for giving us this craptastic assignment? How would this be any different? I have a feeling that at the beginning of a 2 year project for a game, the first year is spent with with all the abstract concept designing and tooling around with a game engine, and taking it easy and not "really" getting stuff done. Then with a year to go, and management clammoring to make sure you get the game out before christmas, and everyone suddenly has to work a lot harder, everyone's like "WTF?". So it's the difference between if they had been giving 100% all the time, rather than starting with 50% and then having to end with 150%.
So I take it that you've never used antibiotics to fight an infection. You can't use "survival of the fittest" as a law of nature. The quote was actually made by an economist describing the buisness climate of the early 1900's, not by Darwin describing his theory of evolution. The two just have superficial similarities which is why people equate the two together. Remember, "fit" is a relative term compared to the environment at the time.
No, a game like that would just end up costing $800, and plus the sheer joy and awesomeness of that game would end up killing you when you OD on endorphins. Kinda like that monty python sketch where people laughed themselves to death over the world's funniest joke, and the allies had it translated into German so the troops could yell it out in German during combat and not know what it meant, but the Germans would all die laughing.
Can an invunerable man commit suicide? What could he do to himself that supervillans couldn't?
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Graham: Galstaff, you have entered the door to the North, you are now by yourself standing in a dark room. The pungent smell of mildew emanates from the wet dungeon walls
2: WHERE ARE THE CHEETOS?!?!
Graham: They're right next to you
Galstaff: I cast a spell
2: Where's the mountain dew?
Graham: In the fridge, DUH!
Galstaff: I wanna cast a spell!
2: CAN I HAVE A MOUNTAIN DEW?!?!
Graham: Yes, you can have a mountain dew just go get it
Galstaff: I can cast any of these right, on the list?
Graham: Yes, any of the first level ones
2: I'M GOING TO GET A SODA, ANYONE WANT ONE?!?! HEY GRAHAM I'M NOT IN THE ROOM RIGHT?
Graham: What room?
Galstaff: I want to cast MAGIC MISSILE
2: THE ROOM WHERE HE'S CASTING ALL THESE SPELLS FROM!
Graham: He hasn't cast anything yet
Galstaff: I am though if you'd listen- I'm casting MAGIC MISSILE.
Graham: Why are you casting magic missile? There's nothing to attack here.
Galstaff: I... I'm attacking the darkness!
(LAUGHTER FROM ALL)
Graham: Fine, fine... you attack the darkness. There's an elf in front of you
4: WHOA! That's me right?
Graham: He's wearing a brown tunic, and he has gray hair and blue eyes
4: No I don't, I have gray eyes
Graham: Let me see that sheet
4: Well it says I have... well it says I have blue but I decided I want gray eyes
Graham: Whatever... Okay, you guys can talk to each other now if you want
Galstaff: Hello
4: Hello
Galstaff: I am Galstaff, sorcerer of light!
4: Then how come you had to cast magic missile?
(LAUGHTER FROM ALL)
Graham: You guys are being attacked
2: DO I SEE THAT HAPPENING?!?!
Graham: No, you're outside by the Tavern
2: COOL, I GET DRUNK
Graham: Sigh... there are seven ogres surrounding you
Galstaff: How could they surround us? I had Mordenkainen's Magical Watchdog cast
Graham: No you didn't!
2: I'M GETTING DRUNK, ARE THERE ANY GIRLS THERE?
Galstaff: I totally did! You asked me if I wanted any equipment before this adventure and I said no, but I need material components for all of my spells, so I cast Mordenkaiden's Faithful Watchdog.
Graham: But you never actually cast it
2: ROLL THE DICE TO SEE IF I'M GETTING DRUNK!
Graham: Arghhhh... yeah, you are
2: ARE THERE ANY GIRLS THERE?
Graham: Yeah...
Galstaff: I did though- I completely said when you asked me...
Graham: NO YOU DIDN'T. You didn't actually say that you were casting the spell so now there's Ogres okay?
2: OGRES? MAN, I'VE GOT AN OGRE-SLAYING KNIFE, IT'S GOT A +9 AGAINST OGRES!
Graham: YOU'RE NOT THERE! You're getting drunk!
2: OKAY, BUT IF THERE ARE ANY GIRLS THERE I WANT TO DO THEM!
35% of internet traffic is BitTorrent
50% is pr0n
10% is SPAM
4% is actual content
And the remaining 1% is slashdot talking about the 4% of legit websites
Out of curiosity, why would anything evolve so poorly? Any evidence of a poor Creator, is direct evidence of poor evolution
Evolution is not meant to make everything good, it's only meant to improve reproductive viability. Evolution has worked a pretty good system where people stay pretty healthy and their parts don't fail while you're less than 35 years old or so. Evolution ensures that organisms that are best suited to reproduce do so. It doesn't have any kind of influence over parts of your life that happen after your reproductive prime. So your body is in its prime to reproduce, and then you take your chances for how it degrades afterwards, since it doesn't matter how you die after you have your kids as far as evolution is concerned. Your kids will be fit and healthy until they have their kids, and then they'll face the ravages of age too. Evolution improves the system only so far as letting you reproduce, and not any further.
Am I the only one who sees voting in state or national elections utterly pointless? Am I the only one not buying into the hype that my vote can make a difference? Thanks to the electoral college, one vote hardly matters, since all a candidate has to do is to get a majority of votes in a state to get the electoral votes, and after that the individual breakdown of the state doesn't matter. If the race within the state does happen to be close where the winner could be decided by a dozen votes, it's just going to be decided by the courts anyway, so one vote will never ever matter. Case in point, I live in massachussets, a state where Kerry will without a doubt win the electorate, but given the bible thumping heartland this country currently has, Bush will win overall. So if I were to vote for the president, here's all the possible outcomes.
I vote for Kerry - Kerry wins Mass - Bush wins the election.
I vote for Bush - Kerry wins Mass - Bush wins the election
I vote for Nader - Kerry Wins Mass - Bush wins the election
I don't vote - Kerry Wins Mass - Bush wins the election.
Why is it that third world nations have it where one person gets one vote and whoever has the most number of votes wins, whereas the US has the most perverted system out there? I don't see anyone suggesting a system in Iraq where you tell people "You can vote, but since you live in western Iraq, your votes don't count as much as the votes cast by people in the more populated eastern provinces". So I'm not voting, but I still plan on bitching, because there nothing I can do about it. I'm a Yankees fan, so I didn't like the outcome of the ALCS this year. I didn't play in the game, I didn't attend the games, and I didn't even watch games 4 and 5 on TV, but I couldn't do anything about the outcome, so I'm going to complain about it. I'll end my ranting by recalling the scene from "The Matrix - Reloaded" where Neo is talking to the Architect about the Matrix. The Architect said how people would only accept the system if they believed they had a choice. It didn't matter what it was, but as long as people felt that they were being given a choice about their own matters, they would willingly accept their situation rather than fight against it. That's what the elections are, the government is giving us a token choice to make over who we believe should be president, even though the system is set up so that it doesn't matter what choice we make since the outcome will be the same either way, but as long as we believe that our choice affected the outcome, we will be satiated with the outcome.
(Note : I do not care for either candidate. As far as I'm concerned, whoever wins the election, it will be America who loses. It is a sad state of affairs where a president must be "chosen" not on the basis of who is a better leader, but who is a lesser idiot.)
I wonder... Does Sir Humphrey Applebey read Slashdot?
Unfortunately, Nigel Hawthorne died a few years ago. He had a heart attack while battling pancreatic cancer. He was a great actor. Interestingly, he was also one of the first openly gay actors in Hollywood.
Slashdot Mirror
Small size - Gameboy
More games - Gameboy
Loyalty of fans to games like mario, metriod, double dragon, Zelda, etc - Gameboy
Combine that with the better battery life, and you see that there's more to the gameboy's success than just power. The Game Gear had a lot of bells and whistles, but the gameboy had the core elements of lots of good games with solid gameplay and a long battery. Why would you trade those items for things like a TV tuner? You don't buy a portable game system to do things other than play games (look at the N-Gage).
Too bad Polar Bears are only in the arctic. The only place you'll polar bears and penguins together are in a zoo.
I should never go down there, because I would probably torment the penguins. Am I the only one who's curious about what it would be like to run through a flock of penguins to see if it would it be anything like running through a flock of pigeons?
Back in the exploration days of Columbus, the native Americans were infected by diseases from Europe and Europe got a few bugs in return. These people were living on the same planet and managed to be isolated from each other so that they didn't have the diseases that the other group had. So looking at that, it doesn't seem likely that the earth would be protected from martian bacteria just because some interplanetary rocks have reached earth in the past. If bacteria can't find a natural way to cross the atlantic ocean without a carrier, I'll wager that they'll have a harder time crossing the vacuum of space without a carrier.
The internet will give you what you want: games, news (domestic or international, biased or unbiased, depending on your preference), pr0n, sports info on your favorite team, shopping, news for nerds, stuff that matters, etc. Whatever you want you can get on demand on the internet. Meanwhile, TV sucks. TV tells you what you should be watching (Look, reality shows, craptacular sitcoms!!), and they make you watch it on their schedule, and they blitz you with overhyped flavor of the month celebrities and commercials every 5 minutes. That's why things like TIVO are becoming very popular. TV sucks, so people are getting a life outside of TV, but there will still be 2 or 3 shows you'll watch all the time, but it's stupid when I have to say "Well, I would like to go out this evening, but I really want to see Enterprise." TV is losing it's grip over the population because we now have an alternative to having to just accept whatever they choose to give us.
Step 1 - Get laid off from job, live in cardboard box on street.
Step 2 - Convince media that this is the future of housing materials.
Step 3 - Profit!
I've always thought that this kind of hacking would not be a problem once internet technology gets suitably advanced. Once everyone has super fast internet connections, you wouldn't need to have the program stored on your own system where punks can work at hacking it. All you would do is buy an account, and then everytime you wanted to play, you would download a fresh copy of the program. You play for however you want, and then you log off, and the program is ereased off your computer (or maybe if you're afraid of having a remote computer deleting programs, it can stay on your hard drive). Then the next time you want to play, you download the program again, thus ensuring that you and everyone else is always playing with a non-hacked version of the program. Your character and his equipment would be stored on the server, so that couldn't be hacked either. So the elimination of punks is only a matter of time.
An advance copy of the script show that the movie starts out with Indy three days away from retiring as professor of archeology when he's sent on a quest to retrive the Talisman of Zohoma. After negotiating the traps of the temple and narrowly avoiding being blown up by a neo-nazi patrol, Indy comments on how he's "Getting too old for this shit."
Am I the only one who heard the "Breeeep" sound and saw a giant exclamation point over the moniter when I read the headline? These video game movies don't have a very good track record, and I'm afraid of how they're going to change Solid Snake to fit the hollywood cookie cutter hero mold.
The problem with the current brand of video game movies is that hollywood is trying to cater to everyone at the same time, because that's what will potentially make the big bucks (Look at pixar, they make movies that appeal to kids, teenagers, and adults, so they rake in tons of cash). The problem is that the video games that we love are tailored to appeal to the gamers of the world. Hollywood then gets their claws into it, and applies their own brand of bastardization to it, things like "all male characters must have a love interest", or "Colorful props and cheezy acting will sell a video game movie". Lets say they try to make a Legend of Zelda movie, the hollywood monkeys will probably say things like this.
Hollywood Monkey - "Instead of Link being a young man, let's make him a 40-something former hero who's called out of retirement because Zelda has been captured by Gannandorf again. Instead of a green tunic, lets make him wear white chain mail armor. Swords have been overdone, so lets make him weild the "master spear". Also, we'll write in a 20 minute love scene between him and Zelda."
Nintendo - "Ummm, I don't think that's so great. You're changing Link from the character we've created and made a dozen games from. While we hinted at a relationship between Link and Zelda, we never actually played it out."
Hollywood Monkey - "Great, people will be looking forward to their scene. Now, for actors. I see Steven Segal as Link, Tim Curry as Gannon, and (Insert supermodel flavor of the week) as Zelda."
Nintendo - "Ummm, I suppose, I guess. What about the Triforce. That's a big part of the Zelda series."
Hollywood Monkey - "Tri-what-now? It doesn't matter, it'll just get in the way."
And the meeting will only go downhill from there. Now, when this movie is released, the gamers out there will be like "WTF? This isn't the legend of Zelda that I love. What happened?" and the regular people will be like "Man, this movie sucks. It's based of a video game, so it obviously must suck to, and gamers who like that game must suck." and then the gamers are like "No, this isn't our game. We hate the movie too, but the game really is awesome." and Hollywood is like "Man, video games suck, you can't make a decent movie out of them." and so forth. There's also something to be said about the inherant problems of taking video games which are built around player interaction, and trying to make a movie out of them, which is meant to just be watched. The stories would have to be fundamentally different to make them work.
It reminds me of a story I read in some "World's dumbest criminals" book. The cops picked up a burgler and took him to a room for questioning. They took a colendar and glued some wires to it, and glued the other end of the wires to a copy machine. Inside the copy machine, they placed a sheet of paper with the words "HE'S LYING" written on it. They sat the crook down in front of the machine with the colendar strapped to his head and questioned him. Whenever the cops suspected his answers were full of BS, they pushed the copy button and it spit out a page that said "HE'S LYING". The crook believing it was a legit lie detector then confessed to the crime.
Well, looks like it's back to cutting out newspaper headlines to make my blackmail notes.
Games like call of duty don't get flak because the characters are nameless and faceless. It's not a big deal when you have a generic allied soldier killing a generic nazi soldier. This though is specifically about a well known and respected leader of our country. As for reinactments on the history channel, that's telling you the facts of a tragic event in our history. This game is more about seeing how many different ways you can kill Kennedy, and like all other FPS's, it'll inevitablly be followed by a video of someone running over to the convoy and humping his body. To bring a more modern context to the game, how would you feel about a flight simulator game where you had to fly a 747 into the World Trade centers, or the pentagon?
I'm just worried they will try to give Master Chief a romantic interest
That's true, but there is a way they could work it in. MC is a pretty awesome dude, so it's quite possible that a female protagonist would develop a crush on him. Things would be ruined though if MC started getting all romantic and junk, since that's just not his style. Here's the best way a love scene could work out.
Blondie McBigrack- "I love you Master Chief"
Master Chief- "I know" (Master Chief whips out machine gun, spends next 20 minutes killing covenant grunts)
If I recall correctly, it was this topic which killed talks on the Half Life movie. When the hollywood producers started talking about Gordon's love interest, that's when the Half Life guys said "That's enough, we're not going there with Gordon, that's not who he is" and ended the discussions.
While the situation with these programmers is obviously pretty bad, why is everyone so appalled at the concept of putting in long hours at the end of a project? The so called "crunch time" has been around forever. When we were in college, how often were we given a paper to write with a deadline in two weeks, but we procrastinated for 12 days and then spend the last two days burried in the library cursing the professor for giving us this craptastic assignment? How would this be any different? I have a feeling that at the beginning of a 2 year project for a game, the first year is spent with with all the abstract concept designing and tooling around with a game engine, and taking it easy and not "really" getting stuff done. Then with a year to go, and management clammoring to make sure you get the game out before christmas, and everyone suddenly has to work a lot harder, everyone's like "WTF?". So it's the difference between if they had been giving 100% all the time, rather than starting with 50% and then having to end with 150%.
the weak are supposed to die out
So I take it that you've never used antibiotics to fight an infection. You can't use "survival of the fittest" as a law of nature. The quote was actually made by an economist describing the buisness climate of the early 1900's, not by Darwin describing his theory of evolution. The two just have superficial similarities which is why people equate the two together. Remember, "fit" is a relative term compared to the environment at the time.
No, a game like that would just end up costing $800, and plus the sheer joy and awesomeness of that game would end up killing you when you OD on endorphins. Kinda like that monty python sketch where people laughed themselves to death over the world's funniest joke, and the allies had it translated into German so the troops could yell it out in German during combat and not know what it meant, but the Germans would all die laughing.
I want minesweeper to be as non-funny as possible. Can you imagine if it was a practical joker?
"There's only 1 mine next to this spot."
(click)
BOOM!!!!!!
"Fooled you!! There were two. Hahahahaha"
Can an invunerable man commit suicide? What could he do to himself that supervillans couldn't?
Graham: Galstaff, you have entered the door to the North, you are now by yourself standing in a dark room. The pungent smell of mildew emanates from the wet dungeon walls
2: WHERE ARE THE CHEETOS?!?!
Graham: They're right next to you
Galstaff: I cast a spell
2: Where's the mountain dew?
Graham: In the fridge, DUH!
Galstaff: I wanna cast a spell!
2: CAN I HAVE A MOUNTAIN DEW?!?!
Graham: Yes, you can have a mountain dew just go get it
Galstaff: I can cast any of these right, on the list?
Graham: Yes, any of the first level ones
2: I'M GOING TO GET A SODA, ANYONE WANT ONE?!?! HEY GRAHAM I'M NOT IN THE ROOM RIGHT?
Graham: What room?
Galstaff: I want to cast MAGIC MISSILE
2: THE ROOM WHERE HE'S CASTING ALL THESE SPELLS FROM!
Graham: He hasn't cast anything yet
Galstaff: I am though if you'd listen- I'm casting MAGIC MISSILE.
Graham: Why are you casting magic missile? There's nothing to attack here.
Galstaff: I... I'm attacking the darkness!
(LAUGHTER FROM ALL)
Graham: Fine, fine... you attack the darkness. There's an elf in front of you
4: WHOA! That's me right?
Graham: He's wearing a brown tunic, and he has gray hair and blue eyes
4: No I don't, I have gray eyes
Graham: Let me see that sheet
4: Well it says I have... well it says I have blue but I decided I want gray eyes
Graham: Whatever... Okay, you guys can talk to each other now if you want
Galstaff: Hello
4: Hello
Galstaff: I am Galstaff, sorcerer of light!
4: Then how come you had to cast magic missile?
(LAUGHTER FROM ALL)
Graham: You guys are being attacked
2: DO I SEE THAT HAPPENING?!?!
Graham: No, you're outside by the Tavern
2: COOL, I GET DRUNK
Graham: Sigh... there are seven ogres surrounding you
Galstaff: How could they surround us? I had Mordenkainen's Magical Watchdog cast
Graham: No you didn't!
2: I'M GETTING DRUNK, ARE THERE ANY GIRLS THERE?
Galstaff: I totally did! You asked me if I wanted any equipment before this adventure and I said no, but I need material components for all of my spells, so I cast Mordenkaiden's Faithful Watchdog.
Graham: But you never actually cast it
2: ROLL THE DICE TO SEE IF I'M GETTING DRUNK!
Graham: Arghhhh... yeah, you are
2: ARE THERE ANY GIRLS THERE?
Graham: Yeah...
Galstaff: I did though- I completely said when you asked me...
Graham: NO YOU DIDN'T. You didn't actually say that you were casting the spell so now there's Ogres okay?
2: OGRES? MAN, I'VE GOT AN OGRE-SLAYING KNIFE, IT'S GOT A +9 AGAINST OGRES!
Graham: YOU'RE NOT THERE! You're getting drunk!
2: OKAY, BUT IF THERE ARE ANY GIRLS THERE I WANT TO DO THEM!
35% of internet traffic is BitTorrent
50% is pr0n
10% is SPAM
4% is actual content
And the remaining 1% is slashdot talking about the 4% of legit websites
Out of curiosity, why would anything evolve so poorly? Any evidence of a poor Creator, is direct evidence of poor evolution
Evolution is not meant to make everything good, it's only meant to improve reproductive viability. Evolution has worked a pretty good system where people stay pretty healthy and their parts don't fail while you're less than 35 years old or so. Evolution ensures that organisms that are best suited to reproduce do so. It doesn't have any kind of influence over parts of your life that happen after your reproductive prime. So your body is in its prime to reproduce, and then you take your chances for how it degrades afterwards, since it doesn't matter how you die after you have your kids as far as evolution is concerned. Your kids will be fit and healthy until they have their kids, and then they'll face the ravages of age too. Evolution improves the system only so far as letting you reproduce, and not any further.
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Am I the only one who sees voting in state or national elections utterly pointless? Am I the only one not buying into the hype that my vote can make a difference? Thanks to the electoral college, one vote hardly matters, since all a candidate has to do is to get a majority of votes in a state to get the electoral votes, and after that the individual breakdown of the state doesn't matter. If the race within the state does happen to be close where the winner could be decided by a dozen votes, it's just going to be decided by the courts anyway, so one vote will never ever matter. Case in point, I live in massachussets, a state where Kerry will without a doubt win the electorate, but given the bible thumping heartland this country currently has, Bush will win overall. So if I were to vote for the president, here's all the possible outcomes.
I vote for Kerry - Kerry wins Mass - Bush wins the election.
I vote for Bush - Kerry wins Mass - Bush wins the election
I vote for Nader - Kerry Wins Mass - Bush wins the election
I don't vote - Kerry Wins Mass - Bush wins the election.
Why is it that third world nations have it where one person gets one vote and whoever has the most number of votes wins, whereas the US has the most perverted system out there? I don't see anyone suggesting a system in Iraq where you tell people "You can vote, but since you live in western Iraq, your votes don't count as much as the votes cast by people in the more populated eastern provinces". So I'm not voting, but I still plan on bitching, because there nothing I can do about it. I'm a Yankees fan, so I didn't like the outcome of the ALCS this year. I didn't play in the game, I didn't attend the games, and I didn't even watch games 4 and 5 on TV, but I couldn't do anything about the outcome, so I'm going to complain about it. I'll end my ranting by recalling the scene from "The Matrix - Reloaded" where Neo is talking to the Architect about the Matrix. The Architect said how people would only accept the system if they believed they had a choice. It didn't matter what it was, but as long as people felt that they were being given a choice about their own matters, they would willingly accept their situation rather than fight against it. That's what the elections are, the government is giving us a token choice to make over who we believe should be president, even though the system is set up so that it doesn't matter what choice we make since the outcome will be the same either way, but as long as we believe that our choice affected the outcome, we will be satiated with the outcome.
(Note : I do not care for either candidate. As far as I'm concerned, whoever wins the election, it will be America who loses. It is a sad state of affairs where a president must be "chosen" not on the basis of who is a better leader, but who is a lesser idiot.)
I wonder... Does Sir Humphrey Applebey read Slashdot?
Unfortunately, Nigel Hawthorne died a few years ago. He had a heart attack while battling pancreatic cancer. He was a great actor. Interestingly, he was also one of the first openly gay actors in Hollywood.