On the one hand, I almost feel compelled to call the Seattle PD (local for me) and plead with them not to take any action based on Mr. Thompson's ludicrous and exaggerated claims; on the other hand, I can't imagine anyone taking that man seriously after all the negative press he has been receiving. It's almost as though the more he gets ragged on, the more intense he gets about beating the video games industry into the ground.
I do love Penny Arcade as much as the next guy (perhaps moreso if the next guy doesn't like them:P), but this situation with Jack Thompson reminds me vividly of the classic bully/attention-whore syndrome in elementary school. The more flak people give this guy, especially negative, he's just going to keep coming back for more. You know what would really hurt him? Neglect and disregard. If somehow everyone was able to see what a boisterous gasbag this man is and just learn to ignore everything he barks, he will lose his bite. So for Mike and Jerry, while reading about their antics of antagonizing Mr. Thompson are often hilarious and eye-opening, they may be just making the matter worse for most involved.
In any event, this too shall pass; I just hope it passes before our friends at Penny Arcade get slapped with a real-yet-bogus lawsuit by this litigation-happy doofus.
I've had this game roughly since it came out and find that I still put it in the ol' Xbox to play, despite the other top-notch games in my collection (Halo 2, MechAssault 2, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow). The graphics, gameplay, cars are all designed with quality in mind by people who obviously have a passion for gaming. The included EA Trax could definitely use the old "heave-ho," but otherwise I am very impressed with this game.
The most amazing thing about this game, however, does not stem from its AI or unmatched feeling of speed or even its dazzling visuals when coupled with an HD-ready TV. The most amazing thing is:
My wife can't get enough of it.
The only other game that my wife has even remotely enjoyed playing on my (now our) Xbox is Fusion Frenzy, which gives me bad-voice-acting-induced headaches and nightmares of ascending the threads of an infinite corkscrew, jumping and ducking to save my life, all to the tune of bad techno. Needless to say, when my wife picked up and played Burnout 3 with unmatched fervor, I couldn't have been more happy. You know, thought I, maybe this will be my wife's "gateway game"; I'll have her hooked on Halo 2 in no time! *evil laugh*
Of course, it was I who got hooked on Burnout 3, and gaming with her has never been better.
Thanks, Criterion Software and EA... well, maybe just Criterion Software.;)
Since the XBox uses a graphics core based on the Geforce 3, this may explain how Microsoft plans to include backward compatibility for the XBox in the XBox2.
This doesn't take into account the fact that the Xbox 2 has been announced to use a brand-new ATI video chipset. As near as I can tell, this has nothing to do with cross-compatibility between ATI and nVidia, which it would have to be if there's any relation to Xbox 2 backwards-compatibility. Just thought I'd mention it.
Bungie has officially placed the Halo 2 release date as November 9th, 2004. When it comes to any information direct from Bungie, fans often count it as canonical. So the ilovebees countdown must be referring to something else.
Not to be persnickety, but the rules of Going Nowhere Fast required that the runs be completed on Xbox, not Halo PC. Thus making it much more likely that all runs would be comparable based on the same hardware running the show.
I've played at PokerRoom.com a few times on my Mac with both Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird and it works fine (especially the modes sporting low-bandwidth graphics). My roommates have played extensively on Windows/IE, so it seems pretty compatible cross-platform. Also, both play and real money are possible--the former being more to my liking.;-)
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"... then as long as you can follow a recipe you can probably build a reasonably good kernel tailored for your system."
Generally, when I'm following recipes, this isn't the way I do it:
"Eggs. Do I need eggs? No. Powdered products: flour. Do I need flour? Yes. Sugar. Do I need sugar? Heck yes. Sodium Benzoate? What the fizzle?"
*Googles*
"Hmmm, that doesn't help much... Fine, module."
On the one hand, I almost feel compelled to call the Seattle PD (local for me) and plead with them not to take any action based on Mr. Thompson's ludicrous and exaggerated claims; on the other hand, I can't imagine anyone taking that man seriously after all the negative press he has been receiving. It's almost as though the more he gets ragged on, the more intense he gets about beating the video games industry into the ground.
:P), but this situation with Jack Thompson reminds me vividly of the classic bully/attention-whore syndrome in elementary school. The more flak people give this guy, especially negative, he's just going to keep coming back for more. You know what would really hurt him? Neglect and disregard. If somehow everyone was able to see what a boisterous gasbag this man is and just learn to ignore everything he barks, he will lose his bite. So for Mike and Jerry, while reading about their antics of antagonizing Mr. Thompson are often hilarious and eye-opening, they may be just making the matter worse for most involved.
I do love Penny Arcade as much as the next guy (perhaps moreso if the next guy doesn't like them
In any event, this too shall pass; I just hope it passes before our friends at Penny Arcade get slapped with a real-yet-bogus lawsuit by this litigation-happy doofus.
Fin.
I've had this game roughly since it came out and find that I still put it in the ol' Xbox to play, despite the other top-notch games in my collection (Halo 2, MechAssault 2, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow). The graphics, gameplay, cars are all designed with quality in mind by people who obviously have a passion for gaming. The included EA Trax could definitely use the old "heave-ho," but otherwise I am very impressed with this game.
;)
The most amazing thing about this game, however, does not stem from its AI or unmatched feeling of speed or even its dazzling visuals when coupled with an HD-ready TV. The most amazing thing is:
My wife can't get enough of it.
The only other game that my wife has even remotely enjoyed playing on my (now our) Xbox is Fusion Frenzy, which gives me bad-voice-acting-induced headaches and nightmares of ascending the threads of an infinite corkscrew, jumping and ducking to save my life, all to the tune of bad techno. Needless to say, when my wife picked up and played Burnout 3 with unmatched fervor, I couldn't have been more happy. You know, thought I, maybe this will be my wife's "gateway game"; I'll have her hooked on Halo 2 in no time! *evil laugh*
Of course, it was I who got hooked on Burnout 3, and gaming with her has never been better.
Thanks, Criterion Software and EA... well, maybe just Criterion Software.
Since the XBox uses a graphics core based on the Geforce 3, this may explain how Microsoft plans to include backward compatibility for the XBox in the XBox2.
This doesn't take into account the fact that the Xbox 2 has been announced to use a brand-new ATI video chipset. As near as I can tell, this has nothing to do with cross-compatibility between ATI and nVidia, which it would have to be if there's any relation to Xbox 2 backwards-compatibility. Just thought I'd mention it.
Bungie has officially placed the Halo 2 release date as November 9th, 2004. When it comes to any information direct from Bungie, fans often count it as canonical. So the ilovebees countdown must be referring to something else.
Not to be persnickety, but the rules of Going Nowhere Fast required that the runs be completed on Xbox, not Halo PC. Thus making it much more likely that all runs would be comparable based on the same hardware running the show.
I've played at PokerRoom.com a few times on my Mac with both Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird and it works fine (especially the modes sporting low-bandwidth graphics). My roommates have played extensively on Windows/IE, so it seems pretty compatible cross-platform. Also, both play and real money are possible--the former being more to my liking. ;-)