And? Had you read the summary it'd be clear to you we're talking about chemistry and that the pentagon rule obviously refers to the pentagons that appear in fullerenes. Even if you've never seen a fullerene there's the reference to the old football layout.
Interesting that I had to go this far down the thread to find a reference to that game. That and Katakis (same developer, same legal trouble) were probably my most-played C64 games. I had a hacked version that substituted Mario and Luigi for the sisters and a mushroom for the punk wheel (I also have the normal version, of course).
There's C64 emulators everywhere, even on my PDA. I just wish it could run at 100% speed instead of 200% or 50% (without and with framerate limiter).
And don't tell me you need to download those games. Just get a cable and connect your C64 drives directly to your new computer, make your images that way. Though I think that requires a non-multitasking OS to work.
Considering the load times of some C64 games (e.g. Katakis took like 30 seconds to load each level, after loading the game itself for roughly 2 minutes) they'd have to change the load parts anyway to make the games acceptable to modern users. After all there's no real reason for that to remain but an emulator couldn't automatically cut these parts out without possibly hurting the game itself.
Pfft. FFX's combat is so boring I can't be bothered fighting as many monsters as I'd need to level enough to beat the next boss. Thanks but there's so many better RPGs that don't involve a female lead character with Down's syndrome.
Rockstar already has so much bad publicity this isn't going to make a dent. In fact it just makes children want the game even more since parents are more and more afraid of it and children enjoy rebelling against their parents.
Settling this is like negotiating with kidnappers, you don't do that except to lull the kidnappers into a false sense of security before the special forces storm the building.
Now, instead of a sillouitte, we have a highly graphic representation of what killing someone is really like. You see them moan, hold thier abdomen, and cry out in agony. If you see that in a video game continously, what happens when those with the predisposition to violence finally snap? Now, instead of feeling remorse at the first dead victim, they feel like they can keep going because their brain is used the hearing the painfull pleas of a dying person.
Not at all. In a videogame you aren't shooting, you are using a mouse or gamepad to make a character on the screen shoot. It's not much different from watching a movie with people shooting except you get to decide if they shoot. The training "video games" the military has are done with a real rifle that has an attachment that turns it into a lightgun, often with some amount of simulated recoil by using blanks.
What videogames do is allow the instincts to recognize a gunfight as a dangerous situation so the shock from killing a human doesn't set in until the fight is over (whereas your instincts normally think the threat is over and you fall into the shock immediately, leaving you open for return fire).
Videogames don't turn you into an emotionless killing machine. Your mind is capable of telling a virtual environment from a real one and training does its best to fool your brain into thinking a situation is real so you get used to real firefights.
Ooooh, that'd be a great storyline for a clicheed Hollywood adaption. The father becomes the Arm Commander, the son the Core Commander and at the end of the movie with the forces of Core crushed and the implosion countdown ticking down the father tries to reawaken the humanity in his son-turned-machine to save the galaxy! The drama! The explosions! It's gonna be a box-office smash hit!
That said, PC also doesn't have all those crap games that line the shelves of EB & GameStop--all those ones for 8 year olds and weak movie spin offs. Which is to say, I think PC gamers are a bit more selective in their B&M purchases.
That must be a local phenomenon. I see shelves upon shelves filled with bottom-of-the-barrel PC games that start at a 10€ price and are mostly bad clones of ancient arcade games like PacMan.
These things would need to be a lot heavier and thicker to withstand assault rifle fire. Even if they are you can be sure that militaries are going to demand better armor piercing capabilities from their next generation of assault rifles.
You don't need to get anywhere close to the sun's output to heat the Earth enough to cause irreversible damage to the biosphere. If we outputted as much heat as the sun the planet would reach temperatures where no multicelled organisms can survive.
PC games don't decline in price as fast as console games do (or my memory is just very selective).
Interesting. I see PC games dropping in price like flies while console games often remain at 60€ until the retailer is tired of wasting shelf space on them.
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Is that the beer he used the chisel on?
Who knows what makes these inanimate objects dance their infernal jitterbug?
I do! I do! I think they're controlled by a series of really big magnets buried under the Earth's crust.
You're an ignorant dolt, Max.
And? Had you read the summary it'd be clear to you we're talking about chemistry and that the pentagon rule obviously refers to the pentagons that appear in fullerenes. Even if you've never seen a fullerene there's the reference to the old football layout.
"Not suitable for children under the age of 3, contains small parts that can be inhaled or swallowed"
Interesting that I had to go this far down the thread to find a reference to that game. That and Katakis (same developer, same legal trouble) were probably my most-played C64 games. I had a hacked version that substituted Mario and Luigi for the sisters and a mushroom for the punk wheel (I also have the normal version, of course).
I'm still seeing the Playstation version of IK+ in stores. 3€ or so.
Of course with the C64 it's pretty easy to buy a C64 serial to lpt1 cable (or solder your own) and rip the images straight from the disks you own.
There's C64 emulators everywhere, even on my PDA. I just wish it could run at 100% speed instead of 200% or 50% (without and with framerate limiter).
And don't tell me you need to download those games. Just get a cable and connect your C64 drives directly to your new computer, make your images that way. Though I think that requires a non-multitasking OS to work.
Considering the load times of some C64 games (e.g. Katakis took like 30 seconds to load each level, after loading the game itself for roughly 2 minutes) they'd have to change the load parts anyway to make the games acceptable to modern users. After all there's no real reason for that to remain but an emulator couldn't automatically cut these parts out without possibly hurting the game itself.
Pfft. FFX's combat is so boring I can't be bothered fighting as many monsters as I'd need to level enough to beat the next boss. Thanks but there's so many better RPGs that don't involve a female lead character with Down's syndrome.
Humans have a built-in resistance against killing other humans.
I don't think Terence Hill likes being accused of causing juvenile homicide.
STOP these parents from creating more offspring... wont someone think of the children!!!
The kid did a pretty good job of that already.
Well, going for the biggest profit certainly is the liberal way...
Rockstar already has so much bad publicity this isn't going to make a dent. In fact it just makes children want the game even more since parents are more and more afraid of it and children enjoy rebelling against their parents.
Settling this is like negotiating with kidnappers, you don't do that except to lull the kidnappers into a false sense of security before the special forces storm the building.
Now, instead of a sillouitte, we have a highly graphic representation of what killing someone is really like. You see them moan, hold thier abdomen, and cry out in agony. If you see that in a video game continously, what happens when those with the predisposition to violence finally snap? Now, instead of feeling remorse at the first dead victim, they feel like they can keep going because their brain is used the hearing the painfull pleas of a dying person.
Not at all. In a videogame you aren't shooting, you are using a mouse or gamepad to make a character on the screen shoot. It's not much different from watching a movie with people shooting except you get to decide if they shoot. The training "video games" the military has are done with a real rifle that has an attachment that turns it into a lightgun, often with some amount of simulated recoil by using blanks.
What videogames do is allow the instincts to recognize a gunfight as a dangerous situation so the shock from killing a human doesn't set in until the fight is over (whereas your instincts normally think the threat is over and you fall into the shock immediately, leaving you open for return fire).
Videogames don't turn you into an emotionless killing machine. Your mind is capable of telling a virtual environment from a real one and training does its best to fool your brain into thinking a situation is real so you get used to real firefights.
Post-natal abortion.
Ooooh, that'd be a great storyline for a clicheed Hollywood adaption. The father becomes the Arm Commander, the son the Core Commander and at the end of the movie with the forces of Core crushed and the implosion countdown ticking down the father tries to reawaken the humanity in his son-turned-machine to save the galaxy! The drama! The explosions! It's gonna be a box-office smash hit!
In a history lesson we were given a quote from a Roman that said pretty much that.
That said, PC also doesn't have all those crap games that line the shelves of EB & GameStop--all those ones for 8 year olds and weak movie spin offs. Which is to say, I think PC gamers are a bit more selective in their B&M purchases.
That must be a local phenomenon. I see shelves upon shelves filled with bottom-of-the-barrel PC games that start at a 10€ price and are mostly bad clones of ancient arcade games like PacMan.
These things would need to be a lot heavier and thicker to withstand assault rifle fire. Even if they are you can be sure that militaries are going to demand better armor piercing capabilities from their next generation of assault rifles.
You don't need to get anywhere close to the sun's output to heat the Earth enough to cause irreversible damage to the biosphere. If we outputted as much heat as the sun the planet would reach temperatures where no multicelled organisms can survive.
Next time a Christian blows himself up in a shopping mall to "send us to hell," let me know.
Christians are lazy, they don't use suicide bombs, they use stealth bombers and GPS-guided bombs.
Yes but what's the efficiency of putting energy into coal in first place?
PC games don't decline in price as fast as console games do (or my memory is just very selective).
Interesting. I see PC games dropping in price like flies while console games often remain at 60€ until the retailer is tired of wasting shelf space on them.