I know this sounds impossible, but for most of us guys... you know when you're "pretending" to listen to someone you're not really thinking about anything. Or when your girlfriend is ranting about someone at work "yadda yadda yadda", what do you do? Most likely you stop thinking at all.
Just "turn off" your brain and you will likely fall asleep faster. It got me through four years of college without learning much and lets me get my required 6 hours of sleep. Oh, and it also helps if you just go exercise for about an hour before and/or after work. If you are working more than 10 hours a day, all the power to you.
I've been living in Germany for the past 9 months and you see lots of this on TV. They have no problems with showing sex in movies, or liquid soap commercials with a naked chick showering in a waterfall, or Britney's Toxic video, but they have major issues with censoring what would be considered virtual violence. I think our 'puritianistic' American society, which is run by the hypocritical bible-bound asses of politicians, should be a little bit more stringent about violent content on normal TV.
Too many parents rely on the TV as a babysitter. Maybe if we had better parenting in our society censorship wouldn't be as much as a problem!
I'll step down from my soapbox and put my two cents back into my pocket.
LMAO!!! Time to break out those old G.I. Joes and start attaching them to toy motors and 9V batteries! OMG I can't wait to have kids and see what kinds of contraptions they come up with from their old beat-up toys... well, as long as they don't go attaching motors to themselves and try winching themselves onto the deck I think we'll be okay.
The voice module was pretty decent, although I don't think it was too successful, as only three games were released for it: Bomb Squad, Space Spartans, B-17 Bomber.
The voices were quite comical, especially in Bomb Squad. The villian (whom you cannot see) occasionally says "They'll be looking for us" or laugh maniacally, there would be someone else telling you how much time you have left (usually after every 3 minutes), and your helper had a few expressions:
"The code! The code, figure out the code!"
"Cut this one first, this second, this third... etc"
"WRONG PART!"
"Good going!"
and as the bomb nears explsion "Oh noooooo!"
At the time, it was a cool concept and one could understand the voices quite well. For an old system, it was really cool to hear voices in a video game and the quality was decent for computer generated voices (although if I remember correctly the voices were modeled after a couple of the programmers).
I agree. Plus, it's not the same playing it in an emulated form. When BSR released the Intellipack back in the late 90s with four games per pack, it was nice to relive that nostaliga, but you don't get the horribly shaped paddles with it, nor the oversized system with the abnormally long RF converter cable, or get frustrated because your games won't start after the first few tries. I still love my Intellivision and I play it occasionally just to relive my early gaming days. *sigh*
Ah, reminiscing about playing Space Hawk, Bomb Squad, and Burgertime, and Astrosmash. Those games were great. Bomb Squad is still my favorite. The voices alone are enough to make you nervous. The music changes when you cut a wrong wire or solder the wrong part into place. You only get 15 minutes (in normal difficulty, I think) to fix so many circuit boards and figure out the code to disarm the bomb.
Hopefully these guys will start a new company and make games as great as they used to. If they could remake Bomb Squad with an action-movie feel to it that would be awesome. Maybe keep the old gameplay in place as the main character cuts wires and replaces parts as another teammate helps with another set of hands. All this set in the 80s would be awesome, with the soundtrack responding to every cut! Nerve-wracking!
I totally agree. As long as your partner gets satisfied and you do too, it's all good. Who cares about size? Unfortunately primitive instinct tells us that 'bigger is better' and it's allowing SPAMmers to make money off those of us that haven't looked beyond the tips of their penises. Some men have horrible sex lives because they don't know what they're doing, and they think they can redeem themselves by enlargement. It's a good way to lose a relationship.
Forget about the size of it for once and improve your performance. If you are concerned about size, check out Thunder's Palace for a free, safe way to improve your size and and control. It's a free user-forum, but you do need to sign up (no credit card or 'FreeAdultPass' required) to read some of the posts.
As I recall, that same christmas my brother and I were given an SNES. This is when systems came with games and an extra controller so you didn't have to play by yourself or bug mom and dad to get another controller! Oh, besides SMW, we got F-Zero also, which were the two games my bro and I played for that whole year until we got through both games completely.
My chemical engineering buddy's PC got burnt to hell after trying to plug a new HD into his system before turning it off. A capacitor popped on the old one and the motherboard's IDE controller was shot to hell. Doing this before handing in his final project before graduation was a big NO-NO! So, he plugged the old drive into his roommate's computer and needless to say, it didn't work.
So, he took the old case with all the drives and components in it (he wanted to get a new PC anyways - this was his excuse), forcefully hucking it off of our fire escape, down three stories, making it cartwheeling on asphalt, and repeating the process, allowing everyone on our floor to get a throw. Well,
the case's aluminium didn't even bend! So, he got a sledgehammer out of the truck and we all took turns beating the hell out of it - reminiscent of that scene from Office Space - crushing the motherboard and power supply, capacitors flying off the board, plastic and metal shards flying all over the place.
We had several onlookers, then a couple campus police officers came by. Oops. They looked at us and said, "You engineers, always causing a ruckus, can we take a few whacks at it? Bill's wife has been cheating on him."
You are all too funny, arguing about spelling issues between America and England. Granted, english was derived from the Germanic tribes who invaded England back in 1066 A.D., and naturally the language has evolved since then, similar to any other European language.
Dan Quale was the only fool that publically spelled potato with an 'e' and phonetically, can you hear the 'u' in color and 'c' in defense? Therefore, it is useless to use the 'u' and 'c' in said words. But then again, if we spelled everything phonetically, our texts would be almost impossible to read, so our American forefathers (the originals were mostly English, yes?) and their decendants up to modern days have molded the old english into 'Americanized English'.
Unfortunately, England's "the queen's" english hasn't evolved as much as the American's english over the years, IMHO. Granted, American english has been bastardized (yes folks, bastardized with a hard 'z' to differentiate drunkness from soberness) to some extent.
American english has eliminated many of the niceities of proper english, but being an American who knows only a few people from England: they speak so freakin' fast that it's hard to catch the different inflections! If your listening is out of phase by more than several degrees, you miss what they are trying to say! People from New England (I included), are not much better, but that's my biased opinion.
Main point: It's an uphill struggle to argue which English is "proper". Go out to the pub with your American chums, throw back a few pints and get pissed out of your mind!
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I know this sounds impossible, but for most of us guys... you know when you're "pretending" to listen to someone you're not really thinking about anything. Or when your girlfriend is ranting about someone at work "yadda yadda yadda", what do you do? Most likely you stop thinking at all.
Just "turn off" your brain and you will likely fall asleep faster. It got me through four years of college without learning much and lets me get my required 6 hours of sleep. Oh, and it also helps if you just go exercise for about an hour before and/or after work. If you are working more than 10 hours a day, all the power to you.
I've been living in Germany for the past 9 months and you see lots of this on TV. They have no problems with showing sex in movies, or liquid soap commercials with a naked chick showering in a waterfall, or Britney's Toxic video, but they have major issues with censoring what would be considered virtual violence. I think our 'puritianistic' American society, which is run by the hypocritical bible-bound asses of politicians, should be a little bit more stringent about violent content on normal TV.
Too many parents rely on the TV as a babysitter. Maybe if we had better parenting in our society censorship wouldn't be as much as a problem!
I'll step down from my soapbox and put my two cents back into my pocket.
LMAO!!! Time to break out those old G.I. Joes and start attaching them to toy motors and 9V batteries! OMG I can't wait to have kids and see what kinds of contraptions they come up with from their old beat-up toys... well, as long as they don't go attaching motors to themselves and try winching themselves onto the deck I think we'll be okay.
The voice module was pretty decent, although I don't think it was too successful, as only three games were released for it: Bomb Squad, Space Spartans, B-17 Bomber.
The voices were quite comical, especially in Bomb Squad. The villian (whom you cannot see) occasionally says "They'll be looking for us" or laugh maniacally, there would be someone else telling you how much time you have left (usually after every 3 minutes), and your helper had a few expressions:
"The code! The code, figure out the code!"
"Cut this one first, this second, this third... etc"
"WRONG PART!"
"Good going!"
and as the bomb nears explsion "Oh noooooo!"
At the time, it was a cool concept and one could understand the voices quite well. For an old system, it was really cool to hear voices in a video game and the quality was decent for computer generated voices (although if I remember correctly the voices were modeled after a couple of the programmers).
I agree. Plus, it's not the same playing it in an emulated form. When BSR released the Intellipack back in the late 90s with four games per pack, it was nice to relive that nostaliga, but you don't get the horribly shaped paddles with it, nor the oversized system with the abnormally long RF converter cable, or get frustrated because your games won't start after the first few tries. I still love my Intellivision and I play it occasionally just to relive my early gaming days. *sigh*
Ah, reminiscing about playing Space Hawk, Bomb Squad, and Burgertime, and Astrosmash. Those games were great. Bomb Squad is still my favorite. The voices alone are enough to make you nervous. The music changes when you cut a wrong wire or solder the wrong part into place. You only get 15 minutes (in normal difficulty, I think) to fix so many circuit boards and figure out the code to disarm the bomb.
Hopefully these guys will start a new company and make games as great as they used to. If they could remake Bomb Squad with an action-movie feel to it that would be awesome. Maybe keep the old gameplay in place as the main character cuts wires and replaces parts as another teammate helps with another set of hands. All this set in the 80s would be awesome, with the soundtrack responding to every cut! Nerve-wracking!
I totally agree. As long as your partner gets satisfied and you do too, it's all good. Who cares about size? Unfortunately primitive instinct tells us that 'bigger is better' and it's allowing SPAMmers to make money off those of us that haven't looked beyond the tips of their penises. Some men have horrible sex lives because they don't know what they're doing, and they think they can redeem themselves by enlargement. It's a good way to lose a relationship.
Forget about the size of it for once and improve your performance. If you are concerned about size, check out Thunder's Palace for a free, safe way to improve your size and and control. It's a free user-forum, but you do need to sign up (no credit card or 'FreeAdultPass' required) to read some of the posts.
As I recall, that same christmas my brother and I were given an SNES. This is when systems came with games and an extra controller so you didn't have to play by yourself or bug mom and dad to get another controller! Oh, besides SMW, we got F-Zero also, which were the two games my bro and I played for that whole year until we got through both games completely.
Ah those were the days.
Yes, and you can "Bite my shiny metal ass, Bond! All the alcohol is for me, fool!"
Although I've dreamed about creating a Bender-like bartending robot, maybe creating a real alcoholic robot isn't such a good idea.
Wow, it survived thrrough that?
My chemical engineering buddy's PC got burnt to hell after trying to plug a new HD into his system before turning it off. A capacitor popped on the old one and the motherboard's IDE controller was shot to hell. Doing this before handing in his final project before graduation was a big NO-NO! So, he plugged the old drive into his roommate's computer and needless to say, it didn't work.
So, he took the old case with all the drives and components in it (he wanted to get a new PC anyways - this was his excuse), forcefully hucking it off of our fire escape, down three stories, making it cartwheeling on asphalt, and repeating the process, allowing everyone on our floor to get a throw. Well,
the case's aluminium didn't even bend! So, he got a sledgehammer out of the truck and we all took turns beating the hell out of it - reminiscent of that scene from Office Space - crushing the motherboard and power supply, capacitors flying off the board, plastic and metal shards flying all over the place.
We had several onlookers, then a couple campus police officers came by. Oops. They looked at us and said, "You engineers, always causing a ruckus, can we take a few whacks at it? Bill's wife has been cheating on him."
"Pass the sledgehammer!"
You are all too funny, arguing about spelling issues between America and England. Granted, english was derived from the Germanic tribes who invaded England back in 1066 A.D., and naturally the language has evolved since then, similar to any other European language.
Dan Quale was the only fool that publically spelled potato with an 'e' and phonetically, can you hear the 'u' in color and 'c' in defense? Therefore, it is useless to use the 'u' and 'c' in said words. But then again, if we spelled everything phonetically, our texts would be almost impossible to read, so our American forefathers (the originals were mostly English, yes?) and their decendants up to modern days have molded the old english into 'Americanized English'.
Unfortunately, England's "the queen's" english hasn't evolved as much as the American's english over the years, IMHO. Granted, American english has been bastardized (yes folks, bastardized with a hard 'z' to differentiate drunkness from soberness) to some extent.
American english has eliminated many of the niceities of proper english, but being an American who knows only a few people from England: they speak so freakin' fast that it's hard to catch the different inflections! If your listening is out of phase by more than several degrees, you miss what they are trying to say! People from New England (I included), are not much better, but that's my biased opinion.
Main point: It's an uphill struggle to argue which English is "proper". Go out to the pub with your American chums, throw back a few pints and get pissed out of your mind!