Look at the differences between SMB1-SMW. You would have to be on crack to say that 2 is a rehash of the first.
Depends on which one you are talking about. The game released in the US as SMB2 was a different game rebranded to be a Mario Bros game, the "real" SMB 2 was known as Lost Levels in the west, it was indeed a rehash of SMB.
Actually the rain forest is mostly burned down in order to gain farmland (because exploitative farming makes the ground infertile after a few farming cycles). If they just chopped the trees down and buried the wood or used it to build stuff at least the carbon bound in the trees wouldn't be released into the atmosphere again. But they burn down the foliage so that adds to the CO2 emissions. I think the forest area lost to lumbering is actually quite insignificant compared to the loss caused by those expanding farmlands.
470MHz was the fastest speed at which the tested stick remained reliable. The manufacturer only said that it would take 333MHz. It's closer to the Big Mac being advertised with two tomatoes and one tester getting four tomatoes on a testing sample and complaining that a second, randomly picked Big Mac has only 3 tomatoes on it.
Or, to stay with PC hardware, often the lower spec graphics cards are just highend cards with some features disabled, sometimes those disabled features still work and sometimes they are defective (and the card put into the cheaper line because of that). Now a reviewer gets a fully operational card and manages to reenable the disabled features. Then he buys another card and gets one that's slightly defective so upon enabling those features the card doesn't work properly. We're arguing about things way past the advertised featureset here, false advertising only comes into play if these things routinely performed worse than the performance claimed by the manufacturer.
Since the variations in the sticks are random there's no way of knowing whether the stick was really pre selected or just a lucky draw. The comparison stick bought from the store might have been extraordinarily bad or just average. The real problem this exposes is the testimg method of picking one stick and testing it. What if you got a dud instead and told everyone that stick can't be overclocked at all? Wouldn't be the average experience, either.
The advantage of the body is that it changes over time. The outer skin layer is composed of dead cells that fall off over time so no matter how powerful the glue, at some point it'll become unstuck because the skin it's attached to has been replaced with new skin.
We can't understand why people seem to think nobody is buying our new console
May have something to do with the fricking huge piles of unsold consoles I'm seeing 'round here. Seriously, some of these stacks are at least 20 XCircles and not even the Core version!
Since games take over the whole computer anyway, rebooting to play games is just about the same - it's pretty easy to see a future where for most people, Windows is a virtual XBox of sorts and everything else is done on the Mac.
Rebooting takes a LOT more time than launching a game. Especially when it's the kind of game you play like 15 minutes a session. Or if you're like me and like to mod your games, then you need your mod tools and games to run at the same time.
The Windows users are the ones who'd have to be converted by this move. I don't think the vast majority of the Mac users gives a damn about this or they would have bought a PC in first place.
Sounds right to me. I wouldn't buy a new system that'd end up forcing me to reboot if I want to access the other half of my applications (and the way it is now I wouldn't boot into OSX in first place). Hell, if I wanted dualbooting there's enough Linux distros for every taste and those don't require completely new hardware to run on. Until I can run all of the applications I use on the same OS I'm not switching.
Do you mean a normal mouse held in mid air or those gyroscope mice that Nintendo got their tech from? In the latter case, how large are the things you are trying to click on?
Dunno, the additional NPC reactions (e.g. obeying you if you spared their lives, getting angry if you just run away while they talk, expecting you to approach them with respect) might add something to the game.
It's only lightgun-type in that the aiming is done by pointing the controller (turning by pointing offscreen). You still move freely. If I read it right you can also pick up katanas and other melee weapons and start giving your enemies just a fleshwound.
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Look at the differences between SMB1-SMW. You would have to be on crack to say that 2 is a rehash of the first.
Depends on which one you are talking about. The game released in the US as SMB2 was a different game rebranded to be a Mario Bros game, the "real" SMB 2 was known as Lost Levels in the west, it was indeed a rehash of SMB.
Actually the rain forest is mostly burned down in order to gain farmland (because exploitative farming makes the ground infertile after a few farming cycles). If they just chopped the trees down and buried the wood or used it to build stuff at least the carbon bound in the trees wouldn't be released into the atmosphere again. But they burn down the foliage so that adds to the CO2 emissions. I think the forest area lost to lumbering is actually quite insignificant compared to the loss caused by those expanding farmlands.
470MHz was the fastest speed at which the tested stick remained reliable. The manufacturer only said that it would take 333MHz. It's closer to the Big Mac being advertised with two tomatoes and one tester getting four tomatoes on a testing sample and complaining that a second, randomly picked Big Mac has only 3 tomatoes on it.
Or, to stay with PC hardware, often the lower spec graphics cards are just highend cards with some features disabled, sometimes those disabled features still work and sometimes they are defective (and the card put into the cheaper line because of that). Now a reviewer gets a fully operational card and manages to reenable the disabled features. Then he buys another card and gets one that's slightly defective so upon enabling those features the card doesn't work properly. We're arguing about things way past the advertised featureset here, false advertising only comes into play if these things routinely performed worse than the performance claimed by the manufacturer.
Dunno, depends on who they're so horny about.
Since the variations in the sticks are random there's no way of knowing whether the stick was really pre selected or just a lucky draw. The comparison stick bought from the store might have been extraordinarily bad or just average. The real problem this exposes is the testimg method of picking one stick and testing it. What if you got a dud instead and told everyone that stick can't be overclocked at all? Wouldn't be the average experience, either.
The advantage of the body is that it changes over time. The outer skin layer is composed of dead cells that fall off over time so no matter how powerful the glue, at some point it'll become unstuck because the skin it's attached to has been replaced with new skin.
I have a few gigabytes of games that offer quick gameplay and aren't available on the Mac. From an old list I compiled for an earlier thread:
Cho Ren Sha 68k (shmup)
Kenta Cho's games (mostly shmups)
Destruction Desire (fighting game)
Mind Arms (fighting game)
Galax (Shmup)
Doukutsu Monogatari (platformer)
Every Extend (kamikaze'em up)
Glace (platformer)
Frontline (sidescrolling shooter)
Minebot (... Action?)
We can't understand why people seem to think nobody is buying our new console
May have something to do with the fricking huge piles of unsold consoles I'm seeing 'round here. Seriously, some of these stacks are at least 20 XCircles and not even the Core version!
AFAIK you can press L+R+A instead of Z in that game.
Yes but not every game is the kind you can play for hours.
Since games take over the whole computer anyway, rebooting to play games is just about the same - it's pretty easy to see a future where for most people, Windows is a virtual XBox of sorts and everything else is done on the Mac.
Rebooting takes a LOT more time than launching a game. Especially when it's the kind of game you play like 15 minutes a session. Or if you're like me and like to mod your games, then you need your mod tools and games to run at the same time.
The Windows users are the ones who'd have to be converted by this move. I don't think the vast majority of the Mac users gives a damn about this or they would have bought a PC in first place.
Sounds right to me. I wouldn't buy a new system that'd end up forcing me to reboot if I want to access the other half of my applications (and the way it is now I wouldn't boot into OSX in first place). Hell, if I wanted dualbooting there's enough Linux distros for every taste and those don't require completely new hardware to run on. Until I can run all of the applications I use on the same OS I'm not switching.
Why? Z is used about as frequently as the start button.
I hate when drones give Nintendo undeserved credit for everything
Yeah, well, you just gave them credit for Red Steel. We're talking about an Ubisoft game.
Do you mean a normal mouse held in mid air or those gyroscope mice that Nintendo got their tech from? In the latter case, how large are the things you are trying to click on?
Of course not. It's made by Ubisoft.
Dunno, the additional NPC reactions (e.g. obeying you if you spared their lives, getting angry if you just run away while they talk, expecting you to approach them with respect) might add something to the game.
It's only lightgun-type in that the aiming is done by pointing the controller (turning by pointing offscreen). You still move freely. If I read it right you can also pick up katanas and other melee weapons and start giving your enemies just a fleshwound.
PETA is so going to kill you.
In communism corporations turn into property of the government. In the US the government is turning into corporate property.
Yep, got that error until recently here in Germany, too.
Up until a few months ago I regularly got the "Google video is not available in your country" error for free material.
I'd use the informal pronouns.
Moore's law applies to transistors, until you can build a transistorless CPU you can't evade it like that.