If changing the ink pad, be aware that the inks used in inkjet printers are mildly corrosive. Try and clean up any spills immediately. Oddly enough,the product I found most effective for cleaning up ink spills was Amway LOC.
I read this article and the first thing I thought of was BADD (Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons), an organisation set up by Patricia Pulling, a mother of a son who committed suicide and who blamed his playing D&D on why he committed suicide.
Details can be found here, called the Stackpole Report.
This 'store' is run by a friend of mine with severe CFS and a cocktail of other problems. You might be interested in some of the shirts or their slogans.
We get great food in Australia (an amazing range of fresh ingredients plus an enourmous range of different cultural influences) - but I would have to admit that chip butties are a weakness of mine on occasion...
Some rappers (and Scatmen for that matter) need to quickly enunciate quite difficult lyrics. As such they could be good at delivering machine gun dialog in a film.
I don't IM, so I'll try to explain it more clearly.
The TV series was a BBC production - BBC stands for Britsh Broadcasting Corporation.
Australia is a member of the British Commonwealth, and our public broadcaster (ABC) has strong ties with the UK public broadcaster (BBC)
In Australia, the ABC have their own retail outlets which stock ABC and BBC productions. Other retail outlets, such as JB HiFI or Collins Booksellers also stock ABC/BBC productions. You can walk into one of these stores and buy the DVDs off the shelf.
Not being a resident of the UK, I am unaware as to whether they have a similar setup for a BBC store, however the online retailer SendIt does sell BBC products. In fact I purchased my copy of the H2G2 DVDs through them when it was released. They ship overseas, so you could purchase it online through them from pretty much anywhere in the world.
Why does the general populace think GTA is nothing but some kind of hooker-killing sim?/i>
Probably because they have bought into the whole madonna/whore diachotomy and believe on some level that the 'dirty' whores' deserve it. After all, having sex with someone, either for money or not, is obviously much worse than killing people. It must be or the ratings systems would be totally different from what they currently are where even implied sex will get you banned but explicit violence will get you awards.
*sigh* And we wonder why society has fucked up attitudes to sex?
On a purely anacdotal basis, I've known more people who are non-gamers who have tried or succeeded to commit suicide than gamers who have tried or succeeded to commit suicide.
Video game player are not confused about the lines of reality and fantasy.
Perhaps this should read: the majority of individuals are not confused about the lines of realitity anf fantasy. But if someone was, it would not matter if they played video games, watched television or read books, they would still get violent imput if they sought it out.
When this sort of crap happens, it's about the individual and their response to the toal sum of their environment - not just a single factor within it.
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I suspect it's all about the community feeling of play WITH other people. We routinely get 100+ players at the Warhammer comp at on our local gaming cons. In fact they have to limit the number of WH entries based on available space.
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Given how long it takes to play out a game of Talisman with 'all' the boards in play, they probably figured there was no market - everyone either has ADD or is already playing a game and keep getting a new ending in the middle.
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The 'new' rules for DnD 3E (and 3.5E) significantly rely on physical location for resolving combat scenarios, and running combats are greatly simplified by using real 3d minis over trying to resolve I wasn't near that chest--my character was on the other side of the room spiking that door, remember? type disputes ad hoc.
The descriptions of Dirk aren't particularly telegenic - Robbie Coltraine (Cracker) could possibly do it, but I'm not sure how far a movie would go in Hollywood where the lead character really has virtually no chance of being involved in a romantic entanglement.
In games it's not the destination, it's the journey. I mean for single player games I could just order my system to play the ending sequence and be done with it. Well that's not the reason to have them, the reason is for the entertainment that leads up to that ending. It's just a minor payoff. I don't play a game because it has an awesome ending, with nothing inbetween, I play it because it's a fun ride, and if the ending sucks oh well.
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If changing the ink pad, be aware that the inks used in inkjet printers are mildly corrosive. Try and clean up any spills immediately. Oddly enough,the product I found most effective for cleaning up ink spills was Amway LOC.
If you RTA you will see that they specifically excluded the lightbulb as being a component of a larger device (an electric light fitting).
The flush toilet is an example of another item that would be excluded by their definition of gadget - portable and smaller than a bread box.
Surveyors use a sextant - which was on the list. It's just on a tripod now.
The things you've listed are generally important inventions, but not necesarily gadgets.
Unfortunately, neither of those devices meet the 'gadget' requirement of being smaller than a breadbox.
I'm biased. Xerox.
disclaimer - poster works for Fuji Xerox
*nod*
I read this article and the first thing I thought of was BADD (Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons), an organisation set up by Patricia Pulling, a mother of a son who committed suicide and who blamed his playing D&D on why he committed suicide.
Details can be found here, called the Stackpole Report.
I have this friend who lives by the axiom: Pizza is like sex, because, you know, even bad pizza is pretty good.
I think that this just says he hasn't had enough sex or pizza - as personally I would rather avoid bad versions of either.
[quote]Depends on what kind of electronic entertainment you mean... /one ticket to hell, please.[/quote]
Mmmm.... Rez....
This 'store' is run by a friend of mine with severe CFS and a cocktail of other problems. You might be interested in some of the shirts or their slogans.
AT LEAST 8 or 9 weeks behind them.
They're currently screening last year's West Wing here currently, and it keeps getting premepted for sport.
I haven't even bothered to start watching Lost on free-to-air, we will watch it from downloads in a block instead, then probably buy it on DVD later.
We get great food in Australia (an amazing range of fresh ingredients plus an enourmous range of different cultural influences) - but I would have to admit that chip butties are a weakness of mine on occasion...
Whadaya expect from a country that has FOUR channels?!
You forgot SBS and (in Melbourne) Channel 31...
Some rappers (and Scatmen for that matter) need to quickly enunciate quite difficult lyrics. As such they could be good at delivering machine gun dialog in a film.
I don't IM, so I'll try to explain it more clearly.
The TV series was a BBC production - BBC stands for Britsh Broadcasting Corporation.
Australia is a member of the British Commonwealth, and our public broadcaster (ABC) has strong ties with the UK public broadcaster (BBC)
In Australia, the ABC have their own retail outlets which stock ABC and BBC productions. Other retail outlets, such as JB HiFI or Collins Booksellers also stock ABC/BBC productions. You can walk into one of these stores and buy the DVDs off the shelf.
Not being a resident of the UK, I am unaware as to whether they have a similar setup for a BBC store, however the online retailer SendIt does sell BBC products. In fact I purchased my copy of the H2G2 DVDs through them when it was released. They ship overseas, so you could purchase it online through them from pretty much anywhere in the world.
Does this explain it?
Why does the general populace think GTA is nothing but some kind of hooker-killing sim?/i>
Probably because they have bought into the whole madonna/whore diachotomy and believe on some level that the 'dirty' whores' deserve it. After all, having sex with someone, either for money or not, is obviously much worse than killing people. It must be or the ratings systems would be totally different from what they currently are where even implied sex will get you banned but explicit violence will get you awards.
*sigh* And we wonder why society has fucked up attitudes to sex?
On a purely anacdotal basis, I've known more people who are non-gamers who have tried or succeeded to commit suicide than gamers who have tried or succeeded to commit suicide.
Video game player are not confused about the lines of reality and fantasy.
Perhaps this should read: the majority of individuals are not confused about the lines of realitity anf fantasy. But if someone was, it would not matter if they played video games, watched television or read books, they would still get violent imput if they sought it out.
When this sort of crap happens, it's about the individual and their response to the toal sum of their environment - not just a single factor within it.
I suspect it's all about the community feeling of play WITH other people. We routinely get 100+ players at the Warhammer comp at on our local gaming cons. In fact they have to limit the number of WH entries based on available space.
Given how long it takes to play out a game of Talisman with 'all' the boards in play, they probably figured there was no market - everyone either has ADD or is already playing a game and keep getting a new ending in the middle.
The 'new' rules for DnD 3E (and 3.5E) significantly rely on physical location for resolving combat scenarios, and running combats are greatly simplified by using real 3d minis over trying to resolve I wasn't near that chest--my character was on the other side of the room spiking that door, remember? type disputes ad hoc.
The descriptions of Dirk aren't particularly telegenic - Robbie Coltraine (Cracker) could possibly do it, but I'm not sure how far a movie would go in Hollywood where the lead character really has virtually no chance of being involved in a romantic entanglement.
If in Australia, try any ABC shop or JB Hifi.
If in the UK, it's bound to be available where any good BBC product is sold
If from elsewhere, Amazon Uk or sendit.co.uk could be a good starting place.
Anyway: Did he sound like an American rapper in the original radio show? No.
No, but he did have very fast delivery of quite complex dialog. For that reason, a rapper could be a very good bit of casting.
In games it's not the destination, it's the journey. I mean for single player games I could just order my system to play the ending sequence and be done with it. Well that's not the reason to have them, the reason is for the entertainment that leads up to that ending. It's just a minor payoff. I don't play a game because it has an awesome ending, with nothing inbetween, I play it because it's a fun ride, and if the ending sucks oh well.
Exactly!
Many of the early HP LaserJets also used canon engines (e.g. LJ 4)
From memory, the rebranded hardware was as follows: