I wouldn't mind a $0.99 game that's entertains me for several minutes. What you need to remember is that with games, it's not just the money you spend, but the time you spend on the game as well. A while back Steam was having a sale in which I bought Luxor 2 and Bejeweled Deluxe for $0.99 each. The former provided me more than enough entertainment for my time and money, while the latter... didn't. I truly wish I had not bought it and had spent that 15 minutes doing something else instead.
Games were also a lot cheaper back then, and there was a lot less marketing and hype involved, so even if a game wasn't all that great it's not like you were out $50-60 and crestfallen because it didn't live up to your hopes.
tell him if he doesn't halt work on nuclear weapons immediately -- including divulging information on these weapons to Iran and Pakistan -- we'll have no other choice than to take him out of the game permanently.
Huh? You do know that Pakistan already has nukes, and has had them for a while now, don't you?
I remember when after a few years I tried to log back into Magic Online and couldn't remember the password. To retrieve the password I was asked the custom security question I'd apparently chosen when creating the account: "What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen Volkswagen Beetle?" Neither "African or European?" nor "I don't know that" worked.... What the hell was I thinking?
Twittering is more like a tiny blog post than a text message. You can potentially have lots of listeners. Or are you talking about texting to some mailing list?
It wasn't about expectations. It was the equivalent of a humongous cliffhanger that doesn't get resolved the next episode. Except unlike TV episodes, it takes a bit longer than a week to wait for the next book. And it didn't help matters that there was almost nothing interesting in book 10 aside from the entertaining Matt & Tuon interactions.
Ok, so it was mentioned, but it MADE NO DIFFERENCE. This was, after all, a VERY BIG THING. After finishing book 9, everyone couldn't wait to find out what VERY BIG CONSEQUENCES resulted from it. And Book 10 instead focuses on some stuff that goes on at the same time.
The ASOIAF equivalent would be if "Winter came" to Westeros and the Others overran half of it in one volume, while the next volume is all about Daenerys, where once in a while someone remarks "it's chilly for this time of year, isn't it?"
The last chapter of Book 9 was where they did the "very big thing", and that chapter almost made up for all of book 8. Unfortunately book 10 made virtually no mention of the "very big thing" and the only good parts of it were the M&T interactions.
Hey, 6 was good, and 9 was awesome. 7 was forgettable. 8 & 10 do not exist. I heard 11 was excellent, but I'm going to wait for Sanderson to finish the series.
You: in this particular story apparently the kid had shot a house up earlier (as in with a firearm) and was trippin acid when the cops Tasered him.
Link: "They tested his system. He was clean of drugs and alcohol. We don't know why unless just being in shock and the whole thing in itself caused him to forget everything," said Hutchinson.
I buy the fact that it wiped out the starships as it would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
I don't buy it. 47 (or was it 37) Klingon Warbirds? Seriously? I'd understand if it were a normal warship from 129 years in the future, but a miner? There must've been a serious pirate problem....
Delta Vega is apparently a moon of Vulcan. Why didn't that moon get destroyed in the black hole?
On the one hand, the black hole should not have been more massive than Vulcan itself. On the other hand, if that were the case the Enterprise would not have been affected, and you wouldn't have that big hole in the starfield. So I'd say, a Q did it.
Where was the Narada when it was drilling Earth? It wasn't Saturn was it? If it was Earth, why didn't Earth (or did it?) get destroyed when the entire mass of the Red Matter destroyed the Narada?
Didn't they warp away to chase Spock before the big showdown?
Personally, my main problem was with the completely absurd idea that a ship swallowed by a black hole is transported through time, when everyone knows that you first have to realign the deflector array in order for that to happen!
After playing Duke 3D, I was very disappointed at Quake. Duke 3d was more fun, at least in single player, and IMO had far more appealing graphics. Quake had far better animation and you swam by looking in the direction of your swimming - thats the only thing it had above Duke for a single player gamer. GLQuake upped the graphics ante of course.
It is ironic that Duke 3D was a hit with an outdated engine..
Outdated? This was months before Quake. There was nothing better. And as far as I'm concerned, Duke 3D looked better than any other game until GLQuake made its appearance. Sure, Descent and Terminator: Future Shock were true 3D, but either those engines had some major limitations, or they weren't used right.
You won't ever notice, and you won't ever age, but I continue to age. I'm an old man now. I would leave a note, but it will be gone when our next event happens. When I die, if I can die, it will be my only salvation. I've tried to die before, but I always wake up in the same place after the event happens again.
See, this part doesn't make sense. If your body ages and keeps memories, that means it keeps your subjective previous day's state. If that state was dead or crippled, this would carry over.
The monotheistic god is given a lot more credit, though. He's not just the creator of man but all existence. As science pushed back the idea of what existence was, not just the borders of the world but the borders of space and time, religious folk were quick to say "Yeah, He did that, too. God is great." By that kind of definition, even Dr. Manhattan would look like a piker.
I've always thought the "indistinguishable" part was from the perspective of an observer who has no clue about what's going on behind the curtain. With sufficiently advanced technology you could fool someone into thinking that you are an all powerful master of space and time. For example, instead of creating a universe, you could create a virtual universe. Make it good enough, and who could tell the difference?
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I wouldn't mind a $0.99 game that's entertains me for several minutes. What you need to remember is that with games, it's not just the money you spend, but the time you spend on the game as well. A while back Steam was having a sale in which I bought Luxor 2 and Bejeweled Deluxe for $0.99 each. The former provided me more than enough entertainment for my time and money, while the latter ... didn't. I truly wish I had not bought it and had spent that 15 minutes doing something else instead.
Games were also a lot cheaper back then, and there was a lot less marketing and hype involved, so even if a game wasn't all that great it's not like you were out $50-60 and crestfallen because it didn't live up to your hopes.
Have you tried accounting for inflation?
tell him if he doesn't halt work on nuclear weapons immediately -- including divulging information on these weapons to Iran and Pakistan -- we'll have no other choice than to take him out of the game permanently.
Huh? You do know that Pakistan already has nukes, and has had them for a while now, don't you?
I remember when after a few years I tried to log back into Magic Online and couldn't remember the password. To retrieve the password I was asked the custom security question I'd apparently chosen when creating the account: "What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen Volkswagen Beetle?" Neither "African or European?" nor "I don't know that" worked.... What the hell was I thinking?
Twittering is more like a tiny blog post than a text message. You can potentially have lots of listeners. Or are you talking about texting to some mailing list?
It wasn't about expectations. It was the equivalent of a humongous cliffhanger that doesn't get resolved the next episode. Except unlike TV episodes, it takes a bit longer than a week to wait for the next book. And it didn't help matters that there was almost nothing interesting in book 10 aside from the entertaining Matt & Tuon interactions.
Ok, so it was mentioned, but it MADE NO DIFFERENCE. This was, after all, a VERY BIG THING. After finishing book 9, everyone couldn't wait to find out what VERY BIG CONSEQUENCES resulted from it. And Book 10 instead focuses on some stuff that goes on at the same time.
The ASOIAF equivalent would be if "Winter came" to Westeros and the Others overran half of it in one volume, while the next volume is all about Daenerys, where once in a while someone remarks "it's chilly for this time of year, isn't it?"
I thought of Farscape as soon as I read the headline. Didn't remember what the agency was called though.
The last chapter of Book 9 was where they did the "very big thing", and that chapter almost made up for all of book 8. Unfortunately book 10 made virtually no mention of the "very big thing" and the only good parts of it were the M&T interactions.
Hey, 6 was good, and 9 was awesome. 7 was forgettable. 8 & 10 do not exist. I heard 11 was excellent, but I'm going to wait for Sanderson to finish the series.
You: in this particular story apparently the kid had shot a house up earlier (as in with a firearm) and was trippin acid when the cops Tasered him.
Link: "They tested his system. He was clean of drugs and alcohol. We don't know why unless just being in shock and the whole thing in itself caused him to forget everything," said Hutchinson.
So who do we believe?
Seriously, that's why all the great Spring Break spots hate the Travel Channel. Oh wait....
I buy the fact that it wiped out the starships as it would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
I don't buy it. 47 (or was it 37) Klingon Warbirds? Seriously? I'd understand if it were a normal warship from 129 years in the future, but a miner? There must've been a serious pirate problem....
Delta Vega is apparently a moon of Vulcan. Why didn't that moon get destroyed in the black hole?
On the one hand, the black hole should not have been more massive than Vulcan itself. On the other hand, if that were the case the Enterprise would not have been affected, and you wouldn't have that big hole in the starfield. So I'd say, a Q did it.
Where was the Narada when it was drilling Earth? It wasn't Saturn was it? If it was Earth, why didn't Earth (or did it?) get destroyed when the entire mass of the Red Matter destroyed the Narada?
Didn't they warp away to chase Spock before the big showdown?
Personally, my main problem was with the completely absurd idea that a ship swallowed by a black hole is transported through time, when everyone knows that you first have to realign the deflector array in order for that to happen!
No, I think he talked to these people.
In that case I believe you have only one option remaining: find the wizard, and stop him from doing it.
Heh, "have great interest in helping others with many things that they can't figure out for themselves",
After playing Duke 3D, I was very disappointed at Quake. Duke 3d was more fun, at least in single player, and IMO had far more appealing graphics. Quake had far better animation and you swam by looking in the direction of your swimming - thats the only thing it had above Duke for a single player gamer. GLQuake upped the graphics ante of course.
It is ironic that Duke 3D was a hit with an outdated engine..
Outdated? This was months before Quake. There was nothing better. And as far as I'm concerned, Duke 3D looked better than any other game until GLQuake made its appearance. Sure, Descent and Terminator: Future Shock were true 3D, but either those engines had some major limitations, or they weren't used right.
Yeah, I'm just waiting for it to show up on gog.com.
You won't ever notice, and you won't ever age, but I continue to age. I'm an old man now. I would leave a note, but it will be gone when our next event happens. When I die, if I can die, it will be my only salvation. I've tried to die before, but I always wake up in the same place after the event happens again.
See, this part doesn't make sense. If your body ages and keeps memories, that means it keeps your subjective previous day's state. If that state was dead or crippled, this would carry over.
It'll need to be smart enough to figure out which brute-forced result is the "smartest" one.
The monotheistic god is given a lot more credit, though. He's not just the creator of man but all existence. As science pushed back the idea of what existence was, not just the borders of the world but the borders of space and time, religious folk were quick to say "Yeah, He did that, too. God is great." By that kind of definition, even Dr. Manhattan would look like a piker.
I've always thought the "indistinguishable" part was from the perspective of an observer who has no clue about what's going on behind the curtain. With sufficiently advanced technology you could fool someone into thinking that you are an all powerful master of space and time. For example, instead of creating a universe, you could create a virtual universe. Make it good enough, and who could tell the difference?
I've always liked JFDuke3d myself.
Any chance we can get him to buy the Washington Times as well?