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Halo 2 Expansion?
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the multiplayer aspect of the game was completely fine at launch
I would agree that despite the bugs, it was fun and playable, but to make an unqualified statement of that nature is simply untrue. Dummying, no grenade hopping off host, broken teleporters, flag bouncing, sword flying (two kinds), inconsistent elevator physics, reload animations that don't always trigger, being able to jump hundreds of feet into the air, and being able to grab flags through walls are all problems. Now, they aren't all as much of a big deal as people make them out to be, but to say that something is completely fine (emphasis yours) in spite of all these things is not true. Halo 2 would be perfectly acceptable for a PC game, but it isn't They only had one pretty homogenous platform to target (and it manages even to perform inconsistently there).
Maybe you think that I am holding them to too high a standard (though I doubt it). However, I think a pretty reasonable standard would be Halo 1. After all, Halo 2 wasn't written from scratch, it was based on Halo 1 which was already finished. I found more bugs in the first month of Halo 2 than in the first year of Halo 1. I really do love Halo 2, but that doesn't blind me to the fact that Bungie has really not met up to their previous standards of quality. I hope that the bugfix will ameliorate this, and if so I'll be perfectly contented.
A true troll is subtle, and may even exhibit wit. It must be capable of upsetting people because they disagree, but feel that your position is tenable enough that you actually hold it. As Lao Tzu would say, the true troll is the unknowable troll.
What I meant was that making a Silmarillion movie would be much less practical than making one of its chapters into a movie. Think of the trailer, that deep voice guy saying, "In a time of legend, a man destined to fight alongside the gods challenged his own fate..."
Of course a Hobbit movie would fare ever better, and seems pretty likely actually to happen.
I'd rather have a Túrin Turumbar movie. Or a Beren and Lúthien movie. Both would be much more practical to make, and would actually have some appeal to non-geeks.
I too have doubts, but part of his decision was his frustration at the fact that he would probably never get a chance to attempt to reclaim his title of World Champion. Besides, if he returned after a few years, he would no longer be number 1, and that wouldn't sit well with him.
The man says that three groups are out to get him. The Jews, the CIA, and the Secret Jews. George H.W. Bush gets to be a Secret Jew by the way, which is odd because I always thought he was head of the CIA. He claims that if he is extradited to the U.S., he will be jailed (true), tortured (okay, maybe less unlikely than it used to be), and executed (I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "probably not").
His support for the September 11 attacks is controversial (and certainly won't make him any friends) but I agree that it does not make him crazy. Being delusional, however, does indeed make him crazy.
True, but they released a bugfix for Halo 2. And frankly, they really messed up with allowing Halo 2 to be released so buggy, but all things considered it's probably best that they do forgo their policy and fix it. They are going to release far more bugfixes in about a month, albiet along with new content.
WinFS is indeed more revolutionary than Spotlight, but to end users it makes no difference if something is implemented at such a low level as the filesystem. What does make a difference is if it ever actually gets released. By the way,
I agree with what you're saying, but to be fair, Jack Thompson makes a living off of this crap yet he knows less about it than some random webcomic artist.
I am not a doctor. I am not an acupuncturist. I cannot tell you whether or not acupuncture works. But frankly, neither can an acupuncturist. It might have value as a valid form of scientific, Western medicine. But it is not practiced as such, and thus should not be taken seriously unless or until it is. Maybe it does release chemicals, but this has nothing to do with "chi" or any of that nonsense. Chiropractors might make your back feel better, too, but they aren't going to fix anything by eliminating "subluxations."
I'm sure Thompson would agree to ban golf. After all, it involves hitting objects which reinforces violent pathways in the brain. Only whores would golf. Golf bad.
Does age or sex play a factor in violent, aggressive behavior?
Sure, the sex and violence centers of the brain overlay one another, which is why the increasing mix of sex and violence is troubling. Armies have been known to go on rape rampages after battles because the violence stimulates sexual aggression. How lovely that GTA weds sex and violence in the same game. We are training a generation of teens to combine sex with violence, just what America needs.
Does this man not understand that in the English language, "sex" can refer to gender? What does he write on forms that ask his sex? "Yes, please?" Probably, "Goodness, no!" actually.
By the way, I'd like to know where these "sex and violence centers of the brain" are. Maybe we could just lobotomize everyone and cure all our ills.
Letting someone arbitrary overturn convictions is not nearly the same as letting someone arbitrarily convict people. In cases where juries act egregiously (although that doesn't really seem to be the case here from what I've gleaned) and unfairly punish people, it seems sane to have a check on that power.
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I would agree that despite the bugs, it was fun and playable, but to make an unqualified statement of that nature is simply untrue. Dummying, no grenade hopping off host, broken teleporters, flag bouncing, sword flying (two kinds), inconsistent elevator physics, reload animations that don't always trigger, being able to jump hundreds of feet into the air, and being able to grab flags through walls are all problems. Now, they aren't all as much of a big deal as people make them out to be, but to say that something is completely fine (emphasis yours) in spite of all these things is not true. Halo 2 would be perfectly acceptable for a PC game, but it isn't They only had one pretty homogenous platform to target (and it manages even to perform inconsistently there).
Maybe you think that I am holding them to too high a standard (though I doubt it). However, I think a pretty reasonable standard would be Halo 1. After all, Halo 2 wasn't written from scratch, it was based on Halo 1 which was already finished. I found more bugs in the first month of Halo 2 than in the first year of Halo 1. I really do love Halo 2, but that doesn't blind me to the fact that Bungie has really not met up to their previous standards of quality. I hope that the bugfix will ameliorate this, and if so I'll be perfectly contented.
Wetware too is vulnerable to buffer overflow exploits. Annoy a person for long enough and they'll do what you say just to get you to stop talking.
You, sir, are no troll. You fail it.
Of course a Hobbit movie would fare ever better, and seems pretty likely actually to happen.
I'd rather have a Túrin Turumbar movie. Or a Beren and Lúthien movie. Both would be much more practical to make, and would actually have some appeal to non-geeks.
I too have doubts, but part of his decision was his frustration at the fact that he would probably never get a chance to attempt to reclaim his title of World Champion. Besides, if he returned after a few years, he would no longer be number 1, and that wouldn't sit well with him.
His support for the September 11 attacks is controversial (and certainly won't make him any friends) but I agree that it does not make him crazy. Being delusional, however, does indeed make him crazy.
A G5 won't even boot MacOS (though the limitation is artificial rather than technical)--it will only run Mac OS X.
True, but they released a bugfix for Halo 2. And frankly, they really messed up with allowing Halo 2 to be released so buggy, but all things considered it's probably best that they do forgo their policy and fix it. They are going to release far more bugfixes in about a month, albiet along with new content.
Even Ayn Rand wanted fraud to be illegal. GP is just a troll.
Posting after you're dead a la 2pac won't help, either.
No, but we do have plenty of studies proving that it will kill you and you deserve large sums of money!
Or one that defragments files when you open them, like HFS+.
Fnord is where WinFS stores information about files.
I agree with what you're saying, but to be fair, Jack Thompson makes a living off of this crap yet he knows less about it than some random webcomic artist.
Employers don't owe people jobs. Workers don't need a "burden of proof" to quit their jobs, and employers shouldn't need one to fire them.
Sounds like people are getting dooced.
I am not a doctor. I am not an acupuncturist. I cannot tell you whether or not acupuncture works. But frankly, neither can an acupuncturist. It might have value as a valid form of scientific, Western medicine. But it is not practiced as such, and thus should not be taken seriously unless or until it is. Maybe it does release chemicals, but this has nothing to do with "chi" or any of that nonsense. Chiropractors might make your back feel better, too, but they aren't going to fix anything by eliminating "subluxations."
And Xerox stole it from NLS. Nihil novum sub sole. Englebart even patented the mouse, but his patent expired before anybody actually used it.
I'm sure Thompson would agree to ban golf. After all, it involves hitting objects which reinforces violent pathways in the brain. Only whores would golf. Golf bad.
Does age or sex play a factor in violent, aggressive behavior?
Sure, the sex and violence centers of the brain overlay one another, which is why the increasing mix of sex and violence is troubling. Armies have been known to go on rape rampages after battles because the violence stimulates sexual aggression. How lovely that GTA weds sex and violence in the same game. We are training a generation of teens to combine sex with violence, just what America needs.
Does this man not understand that in the English language, "sex" can refer to gender? What does he write on forms that ask his sex? "Yes, please?" Probably, "Goodness, no!" actually.
By the way, I'd like to know where these "sex and violence centers of the brain" are. Maybe we could just lobotomize everyone and cure all our ills.
...what does that make Thompson? Seriously, this guy has his head so far up his ass, he makes Helen Lovejoy sound rational.
Letting someone arbitrary overturn convictions is not nearly the same as letting someone arbitrarily convict people. In cases where juries act egregiously (although that doesn't really seem to be the case here from what I've gleaned) and unfairly punish people, it seems sane to have a check on that power.
Lou: Another case of Monopoly related violence, chief.
Wiggum: How do those Parker Brothers sleep at night?