Gas prices too expensive? Turns out that when your car runs of gas, it's more cost effective to simply trash your current car and buy a new one. Dealers will commonly give you the car with a full tank of gas.
Having the game set in the TNG era doesn't necessarily mean they'll be using time travel. At the time of TNG, you could also have missions from DS9 and Voyager, since they all occured at the same time. They might not have a day for day overlap, but for a game, I could consider it acceptable to treat those three as if they were happening simultaneously.
I always wished that you could get a demo of MMORPG's to play before comitting to buying a $50 game and then having to spend more on the monthly fees (though most games do come with a free month). I thought that a good demo would have been to allow full, unrestricted access to the one newbie zone, like Atlas Park in City of Heroes. You can't leave the zone for other higher enemy areas, but within that area you can do anything the regular players can. You can play until you level up a few times, but soon you won't get anywhere beating up on the low level enemies, and by then you can get an idea of whether you want to get the full version. Also, you could also limit the demo players to 1 or 2 classes or whatever. I think this kind of fear to pull the trigger on spending large amounts of money on a game you have to make a decision on by nothing but reviews or other people.
Scene: Mother walking through Wal-Mart with 1-3 eight year old brats in tow.
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "OK!! OK!! Just STFU!!" (Que other shop patrons looking agast at loud use of foul language.)
Checkout Clerk - "Ma'am, do you know that Grand Theft Auto 3 is a mature rated game, more suitable for kids in their mid to late teens?"
Mother - "Whatever, as long as they aren't having sex with hookers and then beating the hookers up, it's fine"
Checkout Clerk - "Well, actually, you..."
Mother (interupting) - "Tyler, put that lamp down this instant" (runs off with merchandise).
I hope they also upgrade the sound as well. They can do so much with the scores to Zelda or Metroid if they can escape the limitations of the original NES and its midi sounds.
I wouldn't want to live forever. Having 200 years of experience may be cool, but having a 200 year old body will definately not be cool. Now, if this technology could be used to transplant my brain into an android body, then I could see perhaps hanging around for a few hundred years.
able to cultivate a massive fanbase like Everquest or Mario
Mario has been successful because it has evolved and maintained/expanded its fanbase, not because its fans carried "the same damn game" for the past 15 years. Super Mario Bros was revolutionary in the platform style and gameplay. Mario 2 had a different style (I think its a fine game, despite some varying opinions on the subject). Mario 3 was arguably the flagship product of the NES, and was yet another evolution with racoon tails, and non-linear level progression and all the other things that made Mario 3 awesome. Mario World was Mario 3 in Super Sayen mode. Then there was Mario RPG, Mario 64, Paper Mario, Mario Sunshine, and of course all the mario sports games. Every game has not only been a differnt version of mario, but practically every game has been as good as or better than its predecesor. Nintendo has delivered to its fans, and that's why its popular, not because the Fanboys (including me) have been blindly loyal to it.
A lightsaber is a Jedi's weapon. They whip it out in any occasion where someone like Han Solo would whip out a blaster.
I think a more intresting point is the ubiquitous use of Jedi deflecting blaster bolts, considering that in Episodes 4-6, Luke deflected a total of 3 blaster bolts, all within a span of 5 seconds. The Jedi didn't seem to have any kind of ranged attack other than reflecting blaster bolts back at the shooter. Sith could shoot lightning, but the Jedi had an effective kill zone of only about 2 meters. I always wondered why they didn't use some non-deflectable weapon, like a flame thrower or something, to take down the Jedi.
First news that the Super Mario Brothers Super Show is being released on DVD, now this. Next think you'll be telling me is that they're bringing back crystal pepsi. Oh damn, just thinking about that makes me feel tingly...
Yeah, but the Dogstation wasn't for a handheld system. With Nintendogs, you can play with it for a few minutes at a time on the bus or waiting in line or whatever. It seems like this kind of pet sim game works better in short doses where 100% attention isn't required. If you're playing on the bus and get bumped by someone or have to get off the bus, you don't risk losing life on your character becuase you lost focus for a second or something, so it's a kind of game which works well in a crazy hustle bustle of being in transit or whatever. Plus it's ultra-cute, so it plays well in public compared to playing Ultra Gore Fest 4.
The quality of the answers was directly related to how dumb her questions were.
That was the point of the article. They were playing out the senario of girlfriend wants to buy her boyfriend a video game system, but she doesn't know an X-Box from a transistor radio; how is she treated?
The real lesson should be that you don't need a college degree to be successful..... but it helps. Stories like this spur people on to believe things like "School is for suckers, I'm going to go make it on my own". For every Steve Jobs, there's a million people who end up working menial jobs at a pathetic salary because they didn't persue their education. Getting an education and getting a good job isn't going to make you a millionare, but more likely than not it'll keep you from being destitue.
College degrees today are quickly becoming what high school degrees were 40 years ago. Advancement in your job is linked to how much education you've gotten. Whether you know more or not is irrelevant, but having degrees count. I have a friend who is a Lt in the Air Force. He's been telling me how a masters degree is quickly becoming a requirement in order to advance into the higher ranks in his department (He's not in R&D or a repair unit or anything like that either). Another example, a few years back another friend of mine was working a summer job for the county doing road maintainence (AKA, scooping up roadkill). Since he wasn't a total screwball like the other full-timers, he got along well with his supervisor. They were discussing my friend's future at some point. My friend wanted to (and did) go to music school, but the supervisor said that if he wanted, after graduation from college, he could recommend him for a supervisor's job working for the county. When my friend asked how a degree in Music Education would be useful working for the county, the supervisor said the degree itself didn't matter, just that you had it. His own degree was in agracultural sciences. So for most mainstream people, a college degree is the best course of action. Maybe you don't have to go into your major's field, but overall you'll be better of having it.
I don't have HDTV, and as far as I know I've never watched anything on an HDTV either, aside from maybe a few seconds while walking through Best Buy. But my question is will HDTV make video games all that much better? Sure movies and TV shows might benefit from improved clarity and resolution, but do video games need it? Would Super Mario Sunshine look any better if it had a few more pixels? How about Halo? It seems that enhanced resolution would only be useful for hyper-realistic pre-rendered movies with millions of surfaces and shading and the like. It seems like if Link were made with an extra 10000 pixels, nobody could tell the difference (except those with HDTV, who want to justify that they can "see" the difference in their video games).
I always felt that when showing the movies to someone who's never seen the movies at all and doesn't know about Luke's father (though most people do know about Vader, since that line is so engrained in pop culture), the proper order should be 4-5-1-2-3-6. Thus you get the story of Darth Vader who's this magic "Force" weilding goon for the empire, and of Luke, this farm boy from a desert planet who also learns of the force from Crazy Old Obi-Wan (Who tells him that Vader killed his father), and then rescues the pricess, joins the rebellion, and kicks ass. Then he goes to learn more of the force from Crazy Green Yoda, but leaves too early to finish his training, gets his butt kicked, and then learns that Vader is his father. Now, start in Episode 1 where you learn how Aniken became a Jedi, how the empire began, and how Aniken became Vader. Now, a small problem with this is that you learn that Leia is Luke's sister right at the end of 3, but that's not so big a deal since Yoda hints at there being another in 5, and you find out about Leia pretty early in 6 anyway. Then after seeing the prequills, you watch ROTJ to see how everything resolves and how Luke redeems Vader and defeats the empire.
While culture may be different in Japan, I don't think there's going to be a market for PSPorn in the US. I believe there are some laws against viewing pornographic material in public or something to that effect. Even it there isn't or it isn't enforced all that much, the bracket of people who are going to have a PSP aren't going to be the ones who are going to be watching porn on the bus or in the subway. People with $300 to drop on a PSP probably don't want it getting around the office that they were watching porn on the subway. And when you are at home or in private, you'd probably want to watch porn on your TV or computer screen rather than a little 3x5 screen.
Do the Mario!
Swing your arms from side to side
Come on it's time to go
Do the Mario!
Take one step
And then again
Let's do the Mario
All together now!
You got it!
It's the Mario!
Do the Mario!
Swing your arms from side to side
Come on it's time to go
Do the Mario!
Take one step
And then again
Let's do the Mario
All together now!
Come on now!
Just like that!
In regards to breathing Tibanna gas, I think that a plausable reason for being to breath the atmosphere is that when inhailed, Tibanna gas is broken down by some enzymatic reaction into molecular oxygen and some inert byproduct which is exhailed, thus allowing tibanna to be breathable. I would presume that since the gas is used in blasters, it's a high energy compound so it would provide the necessary energy to drive the reaction.
The problem isn't that they don't have enough english speakers, the problem is that they don't have enough spanish, italian, french, german, etc speakers. English is very prevelant over there. My parents have told me that their highschool classes were taught in english. My father is constantly asked if he was born in England based upon his diction and pronouncation.
Can someone explain to me why Sony has such a huge problem with this? The stores are moving the merchandise. Is some guy at Sony HQ going "Damn them all. Don't they know we want the DS to get MORE market penetration in Europe before we launch the PSP there?"
I'm wondering what might happen if some bacteria decides to come around and injest this single molecule? True, the bacteria would probably get a bad case of indigestion, but there are some pretty nasty enzymes in bacteria that are good at breaking down molecules.
My calculus teacher in highschool had an intersting philosophy when it came to homework. He would assign homework and would check to see if you'd done it (just to see if you had done it, he didn't collect and grade it). He would record how many homeworks you hadn't done, and then applied a peanalty to your average for the quarter. If you had above a 90% average for the quarter, there was no homework peanalty since you were obviously studying and knew your stuff. If it was between 80 and 89.9, then you lost half a point off your average for each homework you didn't do, 1 point per homework if your average was between 70 and 79.9, etc. Thus, the more you understood, the less homework you had to do. My teacher was fair about it too, the exams were quite fair (All the questions came from old AP exams). For those people who were having trouble understanding the material, they did the homework because they needed the repetition to learn the material, but those who got it weren't burdened with hours of partial fraction expansions and integration by parts.
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Gas prices too expensive? Turns out that when your car runs of gas, it's more cost effective to simply trash your current car and buy a new one. Dealers will commonly give you the car with a full tank of gas.
Having the game set in the TNG era doesn't necessarily mean they'll be using time travel. At the time of TNG, you could also have missions from DS9 and Voyager, since they all occured at the same time. They might not have a day for day overlap, but for a game, I could consider it acceptable to treat those three as if they were happening simultaneously.
I always wished that you could get a demo of MMORPG's to play before comitting to buying a $50 game and then having to spend more on the monthly fees (though most games do come with a free month). I thought that a good demo would have been to allow full, unrestricted access to the one newbie zone, like Atlas Park in City of Heroes. You can't leave the zone for other higher enemy areas, but within that area you can do anything the regular players can. You can play until you level up a few times, but soon you won't get anywhere beating up on the low level enemies, and by then you can get an idea of whether you want to get the full version. Also, you could also limit the demo players to 1 or 2 classes or whatever. I think this kind of fear to pull the trigger on spending large amounts of money on a game you have to make a decision on by nothing but reviews or other people.
Scene: Mother walking through Wal-Mart with 1-3 eight year old brats in tow.
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "No"
"Mommy, buy me this" "OK!! OK!! Just STFU!!" (Que other shop patrons looking agast at loud use of foul language.)
Checkout Clerk - "Ma'am, do you know that Grand Theft Auto 3 is a mature rated game, more suitable for kids in their mid to late teens?"
Mother - "Whatever, as long as they aren't having sex with hookers and then beating the hookers up, it's fine"
Checkout Clerk - "Well, actually, you..."
Mother (interupting) - "Tyler, put that lamp down this instant" (runs off with merchandise).
I hope they also upgrade the sound as well. They can do so much with the scores to Zelda or Metroid if they can escape the limitations of the original NES and its midi sounds.
However, government jobs are known to have a remarkable amount of job security, not to mention that at a school, you could be part of a union as well.
I wouldn't want to live forever. Having 200 years of experience may be cool, but having a 200 year old body will definately not be cool. Now, if this technology could be used to transplant my brain into an android body, then I could see perhaps hanging around for a few hundred years.
able to cultivate a massive fanbase like Everquest or Mario
Mario has been successful because it has evolved and maintained/expanded its fanbase, not because its fans carried "the same damn game" for the past 15 years. Super Mario Bros was revolutionary in the platform style and gameplay. Mario 2 had a different style (I think its a fine game, despite some varying opinions on the subject). Mario 3 was arguably the flagship product of the NES, and was yet another evolution with racoon tails, and non-linear level progression and all the other things that made Mario 3 awesome. Mario World was Mario 3 in Super Sayen mode. Then there was Mario RPG, Mario 64, Paper Mario, Mario Sunshine, and of course all the mario sports games. Every game has not only been a differnt version of mario, but practically every game has been as good as or better than its predecesor. Nintendo has delivered to its fans, and that's why its popular, not because the Fanboys (including me) have been blindly loyal to it.
A lightsaber is a Jedi's weapon. They whip it out in any occasion where someone like Han Solo would whip out a blaster.
I think a more intresting point is the ubiquitous use of Jedi deflecting blaster bolts, considering that in Episodes 4-6, Luke deflected a total of 3 blaster bolts, all within a span of 5 seconds. The Jedi didn't seem to have any kind of ranged attack other than reflecting blaster bolts back at the shooter. Sith could shoot lightning, but the Jedi had an effective kill zone of only about 2 meters. I always wondered why they didn't use some non-deflectable weapon, like a flame thrower or something, to take down the Jedi.
First news that the Super Mario Brothers Super Show is being released on DVD, now this. Next think you'll be telling me is that they're bringing back crystal pepsi. Oh damn, just thinking about that makes me feel tingly...
Don't post on slashdot pretending to have a life, nobody will believe you.
Wife. Don't post on slashdot pretending to have a wife, nobody will believe you.
Gotta watch out for those typos man.
Yeah, but the Dogstation wasn't for a handheld system. With Nintendogs, you can play with it for a few minutes at a time on the bus or waiting in line or whatever. It seems like this kind of pet sim game works better in short doses where 100% attention isn't required. If you're playing on the bus and get bumped by someone or have to get off the bus, you don't risk losing life on your character becuase you lost focus for a second or something, so it's a kind of game which works well in a crazy hustle bustle of being in transit or whatever. Plus it's ultra-cute, so it plays well in public compared to playing Ultra Gore Fest 4.
The quality of the answers was directly related to how dumb her questions were.
That was the point of the article. They were playing out the senario of girlfriend wants to buy her boyfriend a video game system, but she doesn't know an X-Box from a transistor radio; how is she treated?
The real lesson should be that you don't need a college degree to be successful ..... but it helps. Stories like this spur people on to believe things like "School is for suckers, I'm going to go make it on my own". For every Steve Jobs, there's a million people who end up working menial jobs at a pathetic salary because they didn't persue their education. Getting an education and getting a good job isn't going to make you a millionare, but more likely than not it'll keep you from being destitue.
College degrees today are quickly becoming what high school degrees were 40 years ago. Advancement in your job is linked to how much education you've gotten. Whether you know more or not is irrelevant, but having degrees count. I have a friend who is a Lt in the Air Force. He's been telling me how a masters degree is quickly becoming a requirement in order to advance into the higher ranks in his department (He's not in R&D or a repair unit or anything like that either). Another example, a few years back another friend of mine was working a summer job for the county doing road maintainence (AKA, scooping up roadkill). Since he wasn't a total screwball like the other full-timers, he got along well with his supervisor. They were discussing my friend's future at some point. My friend wanted to (and did) go to music school, but the supervisor said that if he wanted, after graduation from college, he could recommend him for a supervisor's job working for the county. When my friend asked how a degree in Music Education would be useful working for the county, the supervisor said the degree itself didn't matter, just that you had it. His own degree was in agracultural sciences. So for most mainstream people, a college degree is the best course of action. Maybe you don't have to go into your major's field, but overall you'll be better of having it.
The Tournament will begin at 9:00 AM, and the grand prize will be presented at 9:03 AM.
I don't have HDTV, and as far as I know I've never watched anything on an HDTV either, aside from maybe a few seconds while walking through Best Buy. But my question is will HDTV make video games all that much better? Sure movies and TV shows might benefit from improved clarity and resolution, but do video games need it? Would Super Mario Sunshine look any better if it had a few more pixels? How about Halo? It seems that enhanced resolution would only be useful for hyper-realistic pre-rendered movies with millions of surfaces and shading and the like. It seems like if Link were made with an extra 10000 pixels, nobody could tell the difference (except those with HDTV, who want to justify that they can "see" the difference in their video games).
I always felt that when showing the movies to someone who's never seen the movies at all and doesn't know about Luke's father (though most people do know about Vader, since that line is so engrained in pop culture), the proper order should be 4-5-1-2-3-6. Thus you get the story of Darth Vader who's this magic "Force" weilding goon for the empire, and of Luke, this farm boy from a desert planet who also learns of the force from Crazy Old Obi-Wan (Who tells him that Vader killed his father), and then rescues the pricess, joins the rebellion, and kicks ass. Then he goes to learn more of the force from Crazy Green Yoda, but leaves too early to finish his training, gets his butt kicked, and then learns that Vader is his father. Now, start in Episode 1 where you learn how Aniken became a Jedi, how the empire began, and how Aniken became Vader. Now, a small problem with this is that you learn that Leia is Luke's sister right at the end of 3, but that's not so big a deal since Yoda hints at there being another in 5, and you find out about Leia pretty early in 6 anyway. Then after seeing the prequills, you watch ROTJ to see how everything resolves and how Luke redeems Vader and defeats the empire.
Old and Busted - Homer's "D'OH"
New Hotness - Darth Vader's "NOOOOOOOO!!!"
While culture may be different in Japan, I don't think there's going to be a market for PSPorn in the US. I believe there are some laws against viewing pornographic material in public or something to that effect. Even it there isn't or it isn't enforced all that much, the bracket of people who are going to have a PSP aren't going to be the ones who are going to be watching porn on the bus or in the subway. People with $300 to drop on a PSP probably don't want it getting around the office that they were watching porn on the subway. And when you are at home or in private, you'd probably want to watch porn on your TV or computer screen rather than a little 3x5 screen.
Do the Mario!
Swing your arms from side to side
Come on it's time to go
Do the Mario!
Take one step
And then again
Let's do the Mario
All together now!
You got it!
It's the Mario!
Do the Mario!
Swing your arms from side to side
Come on it's time to go
Do the Mario!
Take one step
And then again
Let's do the Mario
All together now!
Come on now!
Just like that!
In regards to breathing Tibanna gas, I think that a plausable reason for being to breath the atmosphere is that when inhailed, Tibanna gas is broken down by some enzymatic reaction into molecular oxygen and some inert byproduct which is exhailed, thus allowing tibanna to be breathable. I would presume that since the gas is used in blasters, it's a high energy compound so it would provide the necessary energy to drive the reaction.
The problem isn't that they don't have enough english speakers, the problem is that they don't have enough spanish, italian, french, german, etc speakers. English is very prevelant over there. My parents have told me that their highschool classes were taught in english. My father is constantly asked if he was born in England based upon his diction and pronouncation.
Can someone explain to me why Sony has such a huge problem with this? The stores are moving the merchandise. Is some guy at Sony HQ going "Damn them all. Don't they know we want the DS to get MORE market penetration in Europe before we launch the PSP there?"
I'm wondering what might happen if some bacteria decides to come around and injest this single molecule? True, the bacteria would probably get a bad case of indigestion, but there are some pretty nasty enzymes in bacteria that are good at breaking down molecules.
My calculus teacher in highschool had an intersting philosophy when it came to homework. He would assign homework and would check to see if you'd done it (just to see if you had done it, he didn't collect and grade it). He would record how many homeworks you hadn't done, and then applied a peanalty to your average for the quarter. If you had above a 90% average for the quarter, there was no homework peanalty since you were obviously studying and knew your stuff. If it was between 80 and 89.9, then you lost half a point off your average for each homework you didn't do, 1 point per homework if your average was between 70 and 79.9, etc. Thus, the more you understood, the less homework you had to do. My teacher was fair about it too, the exams were quite fair (All the questions came from old AP exams). For those people who were having trouble understanding the material, they did the homework because they needed the repetition to learn the material, but those who got it weren't burdened with hours of partial fraction expansions and integration by parts.