I'm not interested.
Heck, if there is any PVP considerations that have any impact upon the PVE game, I'm not interested.
No, I don't want a game with "PVP done right".
The only way I wouldn't mind PVP is if somehow it excluded the PVP crowd, or at least the ones who complain on forums to the point where they make changes and ruin the rest of the game.
I have played over ten MMORPGs, I can only think of one that wasn't poisoned by PVP (ATITD).
In Roger Zelazny's classic Hugo award winning novel Lord of Light, the Brainscan was a key part of the tech that cemented the power of the faux Hindu Gods on a distant colony planet modeled after India....
They would use it to review people up for reincarantion (dying, aged, etc) before transferring their consciousness to a new body and life, one assigned based on the results of said brain scan...
I know this is nowhere near that, just found it ironic such a thing would surface in India.
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Hey, wonder if it can determine if you saw or committed an act in a past life...
Just the perfect thing to store my collection of M. Night Shyamalan DVDs...
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How can they spend £2.6 billion and have control screens that look like a ZX spectrum?
The control screens are high-res, 32-million colors.
The 16-bit colors you see are a side effect of the LHC Process. The effect started there and has been spreading outwards... they said not to worry, that we won't know the difference once it hits.
There's a location near here that is in a park and often used for weddings. A company provides a service in which at which they release a bunch of white doves at the appropriate moment of the marriage ceremony. Very beautiful and touching.
Well as they were doing this at a recent ceremony, everything went perfectly until the doves were released, at which point red-shouldered hawk swooped down and took the first dove in flight just as it crossed in front of the altar. An ominous omen to be sure...
The guy from the company that released the doves was upset. When trying to console him over the odds of such a freak assurance happening again, he responded that this had been going on at every ceremony they do in this park for some time, the hawk figured out that wedding ceremony = doves, and even figured out the timing of the ceremony to know when they would be released...
I have a Hauppage HVR-1600.. and used it to receive OTA HD signals just fine with an old (not specifically HD or ATSC) antenna, a Terk TV-2.
However, I recently switched to a monitor that had a tuner (samsung 260HD). It doesn't have PIP, so I figured I'd still commonly use the HVR-1600 to have my OTA signals in a window when I was doing other things and toggle to fullscreen when I wanted to.
However, I noticed the image quality I get when feeding the antenna directly to the samsung's tuner is far superior to what I get via the HVR-1600, even at full screen. The colors are far more vibrant.. at first I thought it was something to do with the monitor default settings, but I've experimented and can't get it to look anywhere near as good via the HVR-1600. Either the monitor is incapable of using the same color settings when viewing input over the DVI connector (don't have HDMI outputs on my card) or the tuner on the tv is just better. Not sure which. As it is now it doesn't matter that much in a small window, I just channge input source instead of making it full screen when I toggle. Just have to make sure the other sound feed is muted, otherwise their off by a fraction of a second (despite same signal, same antenna) which creates an 'echo' effect...
Still using the same Terk TV2. Its a non-powered indoor antenna, and reception is flawless.
If you identify objects on collision course in time, only a very minor adjustment in its trajectory will result in it missing by a very wide (and safe) margin.
So its big controversy is that something is not mentioned in the "remaining fragments"? There would then presumably much that is said in the non-remaining fragments, no?
Bender's Big Score had many awesome moments, but it made me realize Futurama is better in shorter installments, it begins to wear at the interest after awhile. BBS is best watched in pieces IMO. of course straight-to-dvd you're free to do that. But I'd take a series of tales over a single long one I think.
I do hope for another episode of "Everyone loves Hypnotoad" on the extras though.
Quite honestly, its why I have a Zune, I want the freedom to not care about what I'm downloading. I go to get a song there may be 4 versions of it plus a half dozen live ones, what the hell, grab them all and decide later which ones I want to delete from it. I'd agonize endlessly over each purchase if I did it in any other way.
I've already calculated, despite paying the $14.95 monthly fee for about a year and a half now i'm way way way ahead paying for it this way given the amount I've grabbed without worrying about it.
Banana trees do the same. After they flower & produce fruit, they pretty much die. Not immediately so you usually just cut them down when harvesting it. But if you leave them up, they die and rot.
I think this technology has obvious military applications.
When fighting enemy warships, a kite ship can get close enough to fire a shot, then the kite kicks in and they move away, out of range of the pursuing enemy ship, all the while firing shots at them. Using this tactic they could easily draw an enemy warship far from their lines and away from possible assistance to an area of the sea where additional friendly warships can be brought to bear upon it.
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You misunderstand. Its not the PVP ruleset I despise. Its the PVP playerbase.
I'm not interested. Heck, if there is any PVP considerations that have any impact upon the PVE game, I'm not interested. No, I don't want a game with "PVP done right". The only way I wouldn't mind PVP is if somehow it excluded the PVP crowd, or at least the ones who complain on forums to the point where they make changes and ruin the rest of the game. I have played over ten MMORPGs, I can only think of one that wasn't poisoned by PVP (ATITD).
Thankfully none of the planets or planetoids have embarrassing pronunciations in english.
In Roger Zelazny's classic Hugo award winning novel Lord of Light, the Brainscan was a key part of the tech that cemented the power of the faux Hindu Gods on a distant colony planet modeled after India....
They would use it to review people up for reincarantion (dying, aged, etc) before transferring their consciousness to a new body and life, one assigned based on the results of said brain scan...
I know this is nowhere near that, just found it ironic such a thing would surface in India. ------- Hey, wonder if it can determine if you saw or committed an act in a past life...
Just the perfect thing to store my collection of M. Night Shyamalan DVDs...
How can they spend £2.6 billion and have control screens that look like a ZX spectrum?
The control screens are high-res, 32-million colors. The 16-bit colors you see are a side effect of the LHC Process. The effect started there and has been spreading outwards... they said not to worry, that we won't know the difference once it hits.
The OJFS people will be happy for the recommendation, I'm sure.
Its not a magpie but still an amusing story...
There's a location near here that is in a park and often used for weddings. A company provides a service in which at which they release a bunch of white doves at the appropriate moment of the marriage ceremony. Very beautiful and touching.
Well as they were doing this at a recent ceremony, everything went perfectly until the doves were released, at which point red-shouldered hawk swooped down and took the first dove in flight just as it crossed in front of the altar. An ominous omen to be sure...
The guy from the company that released the doves was upset. When trying to console him over the odds of such a freak assurance happening again, he responded that this had been going on at every ceremony they do in this park for some time, the hawk figured out that wedding ceremony = doves, and even figured out the timing of the ceremony to know when they would be released...
I have a Hauppage HVR-1600.. and used it to receive OTA HD signals just fine with an old (not specifically HD or ATSC) antenna, a Terk TV-2. However, I recently switched to a monitor that had a tuner (samsung 260HD). It doesn't have PIP, so I figured I'd still commonly use the HVR-1600 to have my OTA signals in a window when I was doing other things and toggle to fullscreen when I wanted to. However, I noticed the image quality I get when feeding the antenna directly to the samsung's tuner is far superior to what I get via the HVR-1600, even at full screen. The colors are far more vibrant.. at first I thought it was something to do with the monitor default settings, but I've experimented and can't get it to look anywhere near as good via the HVR-1600. Either the monitor is incapable of using the same color settings when viewing input over the DVI connector (don't have HDMI outputs on my card) or the tuner on the tv is just better. Not sure which. As it is now it doesn't matter that much in a small window, I just channge input source instead of making it full screen when I toggle. Just have to make sure the other sound feed is muted, otherwise their off by a fraction of a second (despite same signal, same antenna) which creates an 'echo' effect...
Still using the same Terk TV2. Its a non-powered indoor antenna, and reception is flawless.
The divergence will have been 666k years ago.
If you identify objects on collision course in time, only a very minor adjustment in its trajectory will result in it missing by a very wide (and safe) margin.
Then the nielsen ratings could tell us who watches The Watchmen.
So its big controversy is that something is not mentioned in the "remaining fragments"? There would then presumably much that is said in the non-remaining fragments, no?
I always suspected they were going to port Age of Conan (AOC) for consoles....
Aside from where their labor is done, we just had an article on here recently detailing how apple pays its employees LESS than its competitors..."
Why? Because people are willing to pay it. If they weren't, then they would lower their prices until they were.
It has nothing to do with the technology or anything else other than a business decision, aimed at making more money.
What better way to create an ecological preserve than by nuking it?
Bender's Big Score had many awesome moments, but it made me realize Futurama is better in shorter installments, it begins to wear at the interest after awhile. BBS is best watched in pieces IMO. of course straight-to-dvd you're free to do that. But I'd take a series of tales over a single long one I think. I do hope for another episode of "Everyone loves Hypnotoad" on the extras though.
Quite honestly, its why I have a Zune, I want the freedom to not care about what I'm downloading. I go to get a song there may be 4 versions of it plus a half dozen live ones, what the hell, grab them all and decide later which ones I want to delete from it. I'd agonize endlessly over each purchase if I did it in any other way. I've already calculated, despite paying the $14.95 monthly fee for about a year and a half now i'm way way way ahead paying for it this way given the amount I've grabbed without worrying about it.
and you have no need for a return rocket.
Patent Trolls have fast healing 7... the judge tried using some acid to make sure it stayed down but I'm not sure...
Banana trees do the same. After they flower & produce fruit, they pretty much die. Not immediately so you usually just cut them down when harvesting it. But if you leave them up, they die and rot.
as it would mean crossing the picket lines.
Until the writer's strike is resolved, we have no choice but to boycott Len....
oh.
LenoVO.
never mind.
Chindgu to the rescue....
Surely this is easily remediable with some kind of "heavy" controller.
Heck, even duct tape them to hand weights.... they did the same thing with telephone handsets awhile back...
I think this technology has obvious military applications.
When fighting enemy warships, a kite ship can get close enough to fire a shot, then the kite kicks in and they move away, out of range of the pursuing enemy ship, all the while firing shots at them. Using this tactic they could easily draw an enemy warship far from their lines and away from possible assistance to an area of the sea where additional friendly warships can be brought to bear upon it.