Thats's Toonces, you insensitive clod! You know, I was thinking Toonces should get together with Commando Cody sometime. I think they'd get along really well.
Meanwhile about what percentage of all the other critically well-received games use the left analog stick and the buttons on the right? I believe it's precisely "I don't give a shit" percent.
Why would I? If they use the left analog stick and the buttons on the right... then my left thumb will be on the left stick, my right thumb will be on the buttons. What's the problem?
I mean, there was a trick in Amplitude in which getting to the analog stick was a bit of a challenge - but that was only because the trick involved working the D-pad and the left analog stick simultaneously to move around the board faster - kind of an "unintended feature" I think - so you needed to get to the left stick with the right thumb... But left stick with left thumb? No fucking problem.
You're declaring symmetry is more important than comfort and usability? You have some strange priorities. I don't think comfort or usability are a problem with the Dual Shock, or chances are I wouldn't like the controller, dur-hey. My favorite PS2 games, the Armored Core series, use the analog sticks as the primary controls (for the last 4-5 years, anyway...) so it's not as though I'm not using these controls.
3) Swap the left Analog and Dpad. MS, Nintendo and Sega all did so because it is more comfortable to play 3D games that way. Bolting the Dual analogs at the bottom made sense in the PS1 era, but not 2 gens later. Oh, yuck. No way in hell do I want that. Analog sticks are fine where they are. Beautiful symmetry.
Those L2/R2 triggers are a mess, though, as you say. I shudder to think what it'd be like trying to play "Amplitude" on a controller like that...
When questioned further about his expectations about the computer business, McBride had this to say:
"See, when I first got started in this business, it was easy. Sell software, make money. It was a lot of fun! I wondered why everyone didn't do that. But nobody ever told me that when I go out there, to make money, there would also be other people out there, and that the money they'd be trying to make was the same money. It's not fair, this business is mine, I totally called it! But other people are still getting in the same business anyway. I hate them. I hope they die."
Honestly, the third core doesn't count for much, when you consider the cache impact of all that extra processing... What makes these new processors special is their creamy liquid center...
So, I haven't listened to a lot of Nine Inch Nails, but I guess "Download This Song" is one of theirs? Must be, just seems logical if you think about it. But 228.6mm Nails fans should heed the warnings in "Don't Download This Song":
"You start off stealing songs, then you're robbing liquor stores, and sellin' crack and running over school kids with your car..."
Violating international copyright law is clearly a slippery slope.
(P.S. - what's a motherf****er? Motherfuucker? And are we so childish now we can't say the big bad F word? Fucking pansies...)
As for Trent's comments... I already knew his attitude toward the labels. On that video I'm more interested in the fact there seems to be not one for TWO security guys right in front of the person with the camera not doing anything about the dude with the camera.:) You know, though, I kind of wish they would...
Not to say that I think people shouldn't have the right to video the things they see - on the contrary, I think if someone wants to document their own personal experiences, they ought to have that right. I don't agree with the idea, at ball games for instance, of the management saying "all this you're seeing, we own this, you can't do anything at all with it."
But it is pretty frikkin' annoying, being at a show or something, and a bunch of dipshits holding their cell phones up to video it. It's like, can't people just be where they are, enjoy the experience they're having, without having to hoard a bunch of digital recordings of it? I wanna smack people when they start putting their phones up in the air.
Of course this idea isn't at the production stage yet - but the inventor of the drive system, Mary Jane Lyle Smith, has secured the patents to the technology and placed them in a trust for further development. It's expected that it'll actually be some time before the new drive system is actually ready - there may be journeys to Mars via more conventional means before then.
I mean sure, it sounds like a good idea, teaming up with an alien symbiote to make this "dark web" thing, but before you know it the symbiote is going to want to start running the show...
Funny you should mention that word. After having viewed a marathon of season 3 the other day (and a couple drinks) Sounds like a good combination. Or, at least, I wouldn't want to watch season 3 without some drinks handy...:D
The Panopticons combined to form Regulator, IIRC...
A problem with the lossy compression, perhaps? It's easy to provide a good picture when there's not much going on - it's harder to be consistent when movement (on and across the field, in the stands in the background, etc.) peaks...
It could also be that your reception is marginally bad - to the point that your set is receiving enough information during those low-bandwidth moments that it can pick out a reasonable amount of data - but when the data requirements for the signal go up, redundancy in the signal goes down and you don't get quite enough data for the level of activity in the picture...
I honestly don't know enough about HDTV broadcast to say that's how it works, but it seems sensible...
Even die-hard Palm fans hated it, renaming it the Flopeo or Fooleo. Palm seriously screwed up with this one, but at least they had the courage to axe it before making complete fooleos of themselves... I was thinking "Folly-O"...
Aliens abudcted a racecar driver? No, GP is obviously referring to Dr. Larry Erhardt - who mysteriously disappeared from Deep 13 and was later eaten by a giant spider.
Roget's Thesaurus: The Motion Picture, Feature Film, Movie, Moving Picture, Flick, Cinematic Entertainment Good one. You forgot "Movie film for theaters"...
One of the first few characters you talk to in that game is a lesbian. I was going to mention Fear Effect 2, as well - 'course, everybody loves the cute little lesbians...
Overall, sounds pretty stupid. I'd think with this thing originally being a 'casting' from the original Star Wars movie prop used in the movie.....it would have had some value.
Ain't gonna be worth sh*t with his face on it now....
And, as we all know, shit with his face on it isn't worth much. To be worth something, shit has to have the face of either Christ or the president...
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Why would I? If they use the left analog stick and the buttons on the right... then my left thumb will be on the left stick, my right thumb will be on the buttons. What's the problem?
I mean, there was a trick in Amplitude in which getting to the analog stick was a bit of a challenge - but that was only because the trick involved working the D-pad and the left analog stick simultaneously to move around the board faster - kind of an "unintended feature" I think - so you needed to get to the left stick with the right thumb... But left stick with left thumb? No fucking problem.
In Boston, I'd be more worried about the pepper balls...
Those L2/R2 triggers are a mess, though, as you say. I shudder to think what it'd be like trying to play "Amplitude" on a controller like that...
Having tried this sort of thing before, I think that the old saying rings true:
"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."
One young test subject, upon wearing the headband, reported that he could "see dead people"...
The researchers, upon having been thus reminded of an M Night Shyamalan movie, threw themselves out the nearest window to end their grief.
When questioned further about his expectations about the computer business, McBride had this to say:
"See, when I first got started in this business, it was easy. Sell software, make money. It was a lot of fun! I wondered why everyone didn't do that. But nobody ever told me that when I go out there, to make money, there would also be other people out there, and that the money they'd be trying to make was the same money. It's not fair, this business is mine, I totally called it! But other people are still getting in the same business anyway. I hate them. I hope they die."
Honestly, the third core doesn't count for much, when you consider the cache impact of all that extra processing... What makes these new processors special is their creamy liquid center...
Doo dooo, doo-doo-doo!
So, I haven't listened to a lot of Nine Inch Nails, but I guess "Download This Song" is one of theirs? Must be, just seems logical if you think about it. But 228.6mm Nails fans should heed the warnings in "Don't Download This Song":
"You start off stealing songs, then you're robbing liquor stores, and sellin' crack and running over school kids with your car..."
Violating international copyright law is clearly a slippery slope.
(P.S. - what's a motherf****er? Motherfuucker? And are we so childish now we can't say the big bad F word? Fucking pansies...)
Not to say that I think people shouldn't have the right to video the things they see - on the contrary, I think if someone wants to document their own personal experiences, they ought to have that right. I don't agree with the idea, at ball games for instance, of the management saying "all this you're seeing, we own this, you can't do anything at all with it."
But it is pretty frikkin' annoying, being at a show or something, and a bunch of dipshits holding their cell phones up to video it. It's like, can't people just be where they are, enjoy the experience they're having, without having to hoard a bunch of digital recordings of it? I wanna smack people when they start putting their phones up in the air.
Of course this idea isn't at the production stage yet - but the inventor of the drive system, Mary Jane Lyle Smith, has secured the patents to the technology and placed them in a trust for further development. It's expected that it'll actually be some time before the new drive system is actually ready - there may be journeys to Mars via more conventional means before then.
I mean sure, it sounds like a good idea, teaming up with an alien symbiote to make this "dark web" thing, but before you know it the symbiote is going to want to start running the show...
Fighter escort, please shoot down Microsoft private aircraft in our flightpath...
Gonna cost ya, Google One...
The Panopticons combined to form Regulator, IIRC...
Hm, interesting...
A problem with the lossy compression, perhaps? It's easy to provide a good picture when there's not much going on - it's harder to be consistent when movement (on and across the field, in the stands in the background, etc.) peaks...
It could also be that your reception is marginally bad - to the point that your set is receiving enough information during those low-bandwidth moments that it can pick out a reasonable amount of data - but when the data requirements for the signal go up, redundancy in the signal goes down and you don't get quite enough data for the level of activity in the picture...
I honestly don't know enough about HDTV broadcast to say that's how it works, but it seems sensible...
More likely Amelia Earhart
Of right, I forgot... Amelia Earhart was the one who was abducted by aliens, while Larry Erhardt's disappearance was never satisfactorily explained...Actually, from his name I figure he may be one of Bowser's minions...
Roget's Thesaurus: The Motion Picture, Feature Film, Movie, Moving Picture, Flick, Cinematic Entertainment Good one. You forgot "Movie film for theaters"...
One of the first few characters you talk to in that game is a lesbian. I was going to mention Fear Effect 2, as well - 'course, everybody loves the cute little lesbians...
And, as we all know, shit with his face on it isn't worth much. To be worth something, shit has to have the face of either Christ or the president...Ain't gonna be worth sh*t with his face on it now....