huh? I don't need hundreds of dollars worth of computer parts to make a raging inferno. I only need about $12 of gasoline, $0.50 worth of packing peanuts and a match.
Any "gamer" who needs a gaming laptop isn't a gamer at all, they're a SP-ED.
The Wii is simply not comparable to the PS3 or 360. At best, it's a gen 2.5 rather than a gen 3 (and at worst, it's actually a gen 2). If that suits them, like it seams to suit you, then terrific. Enjoy yourselves, and I might even glom on for a few games. Just don't bother trying to convince me the hardeware is somehow better than Sony's or Microsofts. I might like the Wii just fine despite it having yesterday's hardware, but that will never be a reason for me to actually want it.
I don't mean to call you on your opinion or anything like that, but who says that graphical processing power is what determines the console's relative generation?
I've always maintained that because Nintendo's new console is radically different than the current heading, you cannot make a comparison. Hypothetically speaking, say if the Wii really takes off and absolutely dominates the industry, which companies will be the ones in the wrong "generation"? Obviously the third Xbox and fourth PS would then have to be redefined to the new style of gameplay. This would make the Wii the real next-gen console, and the PS3 and Xbox360 would have been the gen "2.5ers".
Conversely, if the Wii doesn't take off and gets absolutely dominated then we can officially say that the Wii was the gen "2.5er" Until then, however, I don't think you should be saying that the Wii is a "2.5" gen system
*yes I realize that the console industry is well passed the 3rd generation but I was going by Total_Wimp's standards.
As far as I know anyone who is a real PC gaming enthusiast custom builds their machine. It is part of the culture to know exactly what is in your machine and exactly why you chose it over its competitors. If you go and buy some pre-rolled rig you'll never feel like you really own it, you'll just feel like you bought it. Most even insist on putting it all together themselves, to me that's half the fun of owning a gaming PC. With that said, I could imagine if dell or hp or whichever manufacturer we're talking about were to offer from the bottom up a choice in every component then I could imagine it would matter.
easiest answer is to put all your music on a FAT32 partition, that's what I did when I tried to get a dual boot going. I think I used ext3 but I'm not certain and can't check it (my computer is 150 km away):
I think there have been advances on read/writing NTFS from linux, but how about the other way around?
*sarcasm* Windows is normally NTFS, so I imagine it can read/write properly from/to NTFS partitions *end sarcasm*
yeah, he was privy to enough info to get him off of the Pillar of Autumn in one piece!!! Screw hotblasting the fusion reactors then dramatically hopping on the last transport out of there, he took the easy way!
Seriously though, the halo universe is quite detailed and there are plenty of bigscreen movieable backstories, and I think most of the naysayers have just written it off as another sci-fi shooter. I think the vast majority of video game movies have sucked simply because the focus was never on plot development, and only on throwing as many references to the video games as the typical 90-120 minute scheme can allow.
Actually I think there were multiple sound tracks for Jet Set Radio Future, if you got them both then you got all songs from JSRF. Though, I may have just downloaded all the songs separately.
being a case modder myself, I take offense to that! I have never and will never buy an iPod. Also, one of my first reactions to seeing that phone was "think of the possibilities!" When I'm done with it, it'll have 12 cold cathodes a mist machine and a wicked fresh lightning bolt sticker, it'll weight 15 pounds and get 3 hours of stand-by battery life and 12 minutes of talk time. Oh, you better believe it'll have spinners on it too.
Okay so I'm joking, but still some of us like to have basic accessories or they must run linux, but we don't "upgrade" our iPod or iPhone or iLife every year (mostly we're too afraid to leave our basements:P )
what? That's overkill!!! the only way I solve my virus/malware problems is by removing the hard drive and nuking it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure!
wow, just wow. I can't believe you just likened Unreal Tournament to Halo. All they really have in common is having guns and playing in first person. I know this is basically just a shitting match but I found both the halo single player campaigns extremely compelling (well, at least when playing co-op with a friend)
I think you have it wrong, back in the day if a kid comes home with a black eye his dad says, "You got your ass kicked? Come here and I'll teach you to fight." My Old Man's Old Man taught him to fight, my Old Man taught me to fight, and guess what? When I have a kid I'll teach him to fight. Part of living a full life is to feel the ups and the downs, if you had no painful moments in your life wouldn't you be bored? Wouldn't we all just live out our lives waiting to die?
The publishing companies will pay off the review mags so that 2 games will be guaranteed 90% or more, and "okay" games without the budget to pay for their percentage will be in and around the 60% mark.
but Rohypnol is roofies, and is used as a daterape drug. So all the students would just be near passed out, unless you were implying that this TA have fun with the passed out students who match his/her sexual preference. . . I Think it would be more fun, and slightly less letcherous if it was ecstasy or acid, though assuming that they are indeed university/college students they'd probably have built up a chemical tolerance...
I don't know about anyone else, but whenever I hit that compile button I always hear the FFVII won a battle theme and when I see the errors pop up it's like I've hit another random battle, that's just how I roll. . .
This is all well and good, but the minute I get falsely identfied as a criminal just for being in the bar district late at night in the wrong place/wrong time I won't be too happy. . .
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huh? I don't need hundreds of dollars worth of computer parts to make a raging inferno. I only need about $12 of gasoline, $0.50 worth of packing peanuts and a match.
Any "gamer" who needs a gaming laptop isn't a gamer at all, they're a SP-ED.
I've always maintained that because Nintendo's new console is radically different than the current heading, you cannot make a comparison. Hypothetically speaking, say if the Wii really takes off and absolutely dominates the industry, which companies will be the ones in the wrong "generation"? Obviously the third Xbox and fourth PS would then have to be redefined to the new style of gameplay. This would make the Wii the real next-gen console, and the PS3 and Xbox360 would have been the gen "2.5ers".
Conversely, if the Wii doesn't take off and gets absolutely dominated then we can officially say that the Wii was the gen "2.5er" Until then, however, I don't think you should be saying that the Wii is a "2.5" gen system
*yes I realize that the console industry is well passed the 3rd generation but I was going by Total_Wimp's standards.
laden or unladen?
I'll give you twice as much as Chris_Burke is offering!!!!
from what I hear hacking the machines doesn't really take much thinking. . . (unless you hack it to play chess http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/06/dutch-voting-ma chines-hacked-to-play-chess/)
As far as I know anyone who is a real PC gaming enthusiast custom builds their machine. It is part of the culture to know exactly what is in your machine and exactly why you chose it over its competitors. If you go and buy some pre-rolled rig you'll never feel like you really own it, you'll just feel like you bought it. Most even insist on putting it all together themselves, to me that's half the fun of owning a gaming PC. With that said, I could imagine if dell or hp or whichever manufacturer we're talking about were to offer from the bottom up a choice in every component then I could imagine it would matter.
yeah, he was privy to enough info to get him off of the Pillar of Autumn in one piece!!! Screw hotblasting the fusion reactors then dramatically hopping on the last transport out of there, he took the easy way!
Seriously though, the halo universe is quite detailed and there are plenty of bigscreen movieable backstories, and I think most of the naysayers have just written it off as another sci-fi shooter. I think the vast majority of video game movies have sucked simply because the focus was never on plot development, and only on throwing as many references to the video games as the typical 90-120 minute scheme can allow.
Actually I think there were multiple sound tracks for Jet Set Radio Future, if you got them both then you got all songs from JSRF. Though, I may have just downloaded all the songs separately.
being a case modder myself, I take offense to that! I have never and will never buy an iPod. Also, one of my first reactions to seeing that phone was "think of the possibilities!" When I'm done with it, it'll have 12 cold cathodes a mist machine and a wicked fresh lightning bolt sticker, it'll weight 15 pounds and get 3 hours of stand-by battery life and 12 minutes of talk time. Oh, you better believe it'll have spinners on it too.
Okay so I'm joking, but still some of us like to have basic accessories or they must run linux, but we don't "upgrade" our iPod or iPhone or iLife every year (mostly we're too afraid to leave our basements:P )
what? That's overkill!!! the only way I solve my virus/malware problems is by removing the hard drive and nuking it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure!
only plebes leave their houses and get pigment in their skin while interacting with the real world.
wow, just wow. I can't believe you just likened Unreal Tournament to Halo. All they really have in common is having guns and playing in first person. I know this is basically just a shitting match but I found both the halo single player campaigns extremely compelling (well, at least when playing co-op with a friend)
or is it http://www.google.com/trends?q=wtf+%2C+who+cares&c tab=1&geo=all&date=2006
I think you have it wrong, back in the day if a kid comes home with a black eye his dad says, "You got your ass kicked? Come here and I'll teach you to fight." My Old Man's Old Man taught him to fight, my Old Man taught me to fight, and guess what? When I have a kid I'll teach him to fight. Part of living a full life is to feel the ups and the downs, if you had no painful moments in your life wouldn't you be bored? Wouldn't we all just live out our lives waiting to die?
awesome!! I was hoping for my chance to implement my Zero Wing Police Force.
why not send a cease and desist from each country first?
yes, as a matter of fact. Unfortunately, they might find me if I post its address here.
The publishing companies will pay off the review mags so that 2 games will be guaranteed 90% or more, and "okay" games without the budget to pay for their percentage will be in and around the 60% mark.
Foster not Card, you insensitive clod!
I'm a co-author!!!!
but Rohypnol is roofies, and is used as a daterape drug. So all the students would just be near passed out, unless you were implying that this TA have fun with the passed out students who match his/her sexual preference. . . I Think it would be more fun, and slightly less letcherous if it was ecstasy or acid, though assuming that they are indeed university/college students they'd probably have built up a chemical tolerance...
I don't know about anyone else, but whenever I hit that compile button I always hear the FFVII won a battle theme and when I see the errors pop up it's like I've hit another random battle, that's just how I roll. . .
. . .Though I'll still laugh when Streisand gets framed for robbing a bank or something. . .
This is all well and good, but the minute I get falsely identfied as a criminal just for being in the bar district late at night in the wrong place/wrong time I won't be too happy. . .
I suppose that beats a robot that's always jacking off.