Huh, I honestly didn't realize that the 'to verb' forms of French verbs could not be used as commands ('verb!'), though I should have caught the 'en' thing. And 'Lémur' is great, thanks!
The point is that complying with laws is sometimes unethical. The ethical choice would have been either complete non-involvement or violating the laws in question. And since when is behaving ethically not one of their duties to their shareholders? I can't rationalize or justify supporting this action.
Damn! I actually meant 'Burn in Hell, monkey-boy!', so it was fairly close. I suppose I should have said 'brûler'. The certain France-hating individual for whom that old insult was intended has been more accurately renamed 'lemur-boy' lately, so I hadn't had opportunity to think of it in a bit, but it remains the first thing that comes to mind when I see the word 'French'. Speaking of which, I need to go find a French word for 'lemur'...
If you're trying to categorize things into bins so small that some things are 'art' and some things aren't, you're really being overspecific. I try to just lump things I experience into 2 bins: 'best thing ever' and 'worst thing ever', and these are ever changing and evolving. So anyone asking me my opinion on something is going to get 'What's that?' (likely), 'That's the best thing ever!', or 'That's the worst thing ever!'
I'm still waiting for something to happen where I can honestly say 'it was the best thing ever and it was the worst thing ever', because that would just stand my simple-minded method on its head and ridicule it, which would be the best thing ever.
So far today, a really big and decidedly non-seasonal praying mantis is contending for 'best thing ever' against some unexpected seeds from a seedless tangerine, although my severe sleep deprivation induced salt craving has had no challengers for 'worst thing ever'.
I'm playing it right now, for the first time, and while I really liked it at the beginning, its starting to wear on me since it is sometimes 2 hours between save points. They were everywhere at the beginning, but now they're awfully spaced. I don't mind the cutscenes at all, they seem quite well done to me. I could just use a few more saves in the 'dungeons'.
Tachyon: The Fringe was quite good, and had Bruce Campbell on voicework too. It had some cutscenes, but nothing extravagant. I think it came out shortly after FreeSpace 2.
I've always said that I'll stand up for the right of other people to smoke in public places when they stand up for my right to piss on their shoes. Haven't gotten any takers though.
I hated that Library level too, not so much that it was repetitive (the underground ruins in the swamp were worse in that regard to me; I got lost in there more), but that it was the only level of the game that didn't seem to be beatable on Legendary. All the rest of the game I could do something to stay alive, but the library was godawful. Almost as if nobody bothered to play-test it on all the difficulties, or maybe they expected a second player on it... I dunno.
They got it right in Halo2, it had an incredible Legendary mode. I guess that was consolation for the awful multiplayer maps.
Er, I buy a lot of second-hand games because a lot of the games I want were printed in relatively small lots, and are hard to find. In the last few months I've picked up Skygunner (best game on the PS2), R-Type Delta, R-Types, Einhander, Gekioh, and Otogi 2 used. While I did get them all cheap ($26 for Einhander was the highest), that wasn't my motivation. Getting some good games was the motivation. You can't frequently find that kind of stuff in your usual $50 per really recent hyped title sort of store.
Well, the scenario of taking CDs to work to play them on networked military PCs is not implausible at all; there are thousands of GS/staff employees who do that. What is implausible, at least in my experience, is those users having admin access to their machines. Was this rootkit able to install on XP under a user or power user account?
Projectiles were 3d objects in Rune, many years ago. The multiplayer was sort of a melee Quake, but you could throw any weapon at any time (at the risk of not having a weapon afterwards). It was pretty neat to kill someone by bouncing a sword off a jump pad and skewering them, too. You should check it out sometime, it was a fun game.
There was also a mod for the original Quake that made rockets use teleporters, though I don't know that they considered walls or anything. If you want to see some amazing stuff done with the original Quake engine, look up a total conversion called Malice. It was actually a commercial release, like a third party expansion pack, but it was pretty awesome. It was also the first FPS I can remember that tried to tell some form of coherent story through cutscenes and scripted sequences.
My first viruses were on System 7 on a mac IIsi. Norton Antivirus at the time was considerably worse than having a virus, but there was some free virus scanner (with an italic v in a shield for an icon, but I can't remember its name) that was fairly effective.
I remember one virus that went through the (then System 7.5) networked macs at my school and made them all play their 'quack' alert sound nonstop, which was pretty amusing in the computer labs. A lot of the viruses after that one would totally nuke AppleTalk, and combined with the lack of decent AV, was one of the reasons my school system dumped macs in favor of windows 95B/novell netware. We tried to run them sort of half and half, but AppleTalk packets would congest the network and stop novell from working, so it was one or the other.
We actually (amazingly) had fewer virus problems after that, but more malicious user problems, since the jerks mostly had 95 machines at home, and knew enough to mess with them. Thus began our endless pursuit of secure user attachments for Win9x, beginning with the laughably ineffective Fortres. Fortunately after Win2k came out, system policies could be tweaked to really lock down boxes, and almost all the problems (including netware, since we switched to windows servers) went away.
I still have a Mac-in-a-box (a classic) that I use for a doorstop, but that's about it.
I'm not sure how it happened exactly, but at one point in highschool I actually got a TI-85 virus via a link cable. It would flick random pixels on the screen on and off, sort of like a light static on the picture. Had to clear the whole calculator to get rid of it.
Databases get mined/combined, and I'm sure the combination of my name/email was out there somewhere waiting to meet name/vicodin. If it was a coincidence, it was a damned coincidental one. I mean, no medication spam at all (and very little spam in general, ~4/week), and then suddenly up to 3 vicodin spam a day?
I noticed something similar when I bought my house, now I get tons and tons of remortgage and mortgage insurance spam (to the point where I finally installed some filters, false positives be damned), and even worse, I get real physical junkmail of the same, sometimes 3 or 4 in a week. The only junkmail I ever got before that was the occasional (1 a month or so) credit card offer.
I'm normally not even a paranoid person, but those sorts of things are just too convenient to be pure coincidence. There's just something insidious about advertising that makes me assume the worst about it.
And as for the doctor, I'm fairly trusting of them (two of my closest friends are a pharmacist and a dentist, albeit one that doesn't take out wisdom teeth)... until they recommend something really stupid like taking vicodin. Prescribing an ineffective narcotic painkiller with bad side effects where an anti-inflammatory (or chewing some ice the next day, for that matter) would have done better with no side effects? Ehh... He did a competent enough job getting the giant sideways teeth out, but I'm not taking his medication advice.
Though I did claim all the remains of said teeth and amuse myself the next day by reassembling them bit by bit with super glue.
eBay has popups? I've never seen one there, ever. The only places I regularly go that throw me popups are Reuters (which has gotten progressively worse over the years, now there's not even news on the front page of their site) and TigerDirect (who seem to be ok, except for their lone popup window).
I never got a single spam for Vicodin (or any other medication) until I had my wisdom teeth pulled two years ago. I told the doctor I didn't want it (and didn't even get it filled), but he wrote me a prescription for it. Two days later the spam started. It arrives at my trashy public email to this day.
I've seriously considered forwarding that entire account to the doctor.
I dunno about GSA, but I'm fairly certain that Fort Gordon's University of IT has been using MySQL as the backend for their PostNuke based training portals for about 3 years, and some of the other schools are starting to field similar systems.
Well, if you liked Diablo 2 for the gauntlet-ish hordes of monsters and slinging spells/arrows all over the place while dodging stuff, then you probably wouldn't like Guild Wars anyway. Its a whole lot nicer than all the other lame 'MMO' games, but it still feels borderline tedious due to its pacing. Its more akin to Neverwinter Nights, except a lot prettier, and with a lot more skills (feats, whatever).
I haven't played it since the ATI free 10 hour trial thing, but its not bad. I probably would have bought it if my laptop ran it better.
Er, who would ever want a music library that rings? I'm going to have a non-ringing device for that anyway, so why duplicate it in a phone?
Things that ring have a short lifespan around me anyway, and I wouldn't want to be killing all my music on a regular basis. Ever taken a nailbat to a cellphone?
Mobile Light Force (PS1) is Gunbird 1. Gunbird 2 is on the Dreamcast. Mobile Light Force 2 (PS2, with the same awful box art as MLF 1) is Castle Shikigami 1. Castle Shikigami 2 is on the PS2.
The story of Shikigami 1 isn't foobared, its just gone. Entirely. Though as you say, the gameplay is intact and the game is dirt cheap off ebay. So is Shikigami 2. I've got them both, and I'd say that 1 has better bosses, but the engrish story in 2 is hilariously awful, and sorely missed in 1. Though if the story in 2 is actually translated correctly, then maybe I can understand why they cut the story out of 1.
They're both awesome co-op shooters, though, as is Gradius V.
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Huh, I honestly didn't realize that the 'to verb' forms of French verbs could not be used as commands ('verb!'), though I should have caught the 'en' thing. And 'Lémur' is great, thanks!
The point is that complying with laws is sometimes unethical. The ethical choice would have been either complete non-involvement or violating the laws in question. And since when is behaving ethically not one of their duties to their shareholders? I can't rationalize or justify supporting this action.
Damn! I actually meant 'Burn in Hell, monkey-boy!', so it was fairly close. I suppose I should have said 'brûler'. The certain France-hating individual for whom that old insult was intended has been more accurately renamed 'lemur-boy' lately, so I hadn't had opportunity to think of it in a bit, but it remains the first thing that comes to mind when I see the word 'French'. Speaking of which, I need to go find a French word for 'lemur'...
If you're trying to categorize things into bins so small that some things are 'art' and some things aren't, you're really being overspecific. I try to just lump things I experience into 2 bins: 'best thing ever' and 'worst thing ever', and these are ever changing and evolving. So anyone asking me my opinion on something is going to get 'What's that?' (likely), 'That's the best thing ever!', or 'That's the worst thing ever!'
I'm still waiting for something to happen where I can honestly say 'it was the best thing ever and it was the worst thing ever', because that would just stand my simple-minded method on its head and ridicule it, which would be the best thing ever.
So far today, a really big and decidedly non-seasonal praying mantis is contending for 'best thing ever' against some unexpected seeds from a seedless tangerine, although my severe sleep deprivation induced salt craving has had no challengers for 'worst thing ever'.
I'm playing it right now, for the first time, and while I really liked it at the beginning, its starting to wear on me since it is sometimes 2 hours between save points. They were everywhere at the beginning, but now they're awfully spaced. I don't mind the cutscenes at all, they seem quite well done to me. I could just use a few more saves in the 'dungeons'.
Tachyon: The Fringe was quite good, and had Bruce Campbell on voicework too. It had some cutscenes, but nothing extravagant. I think it came out shortly after FreeSpace 2.
Brûlure dans l'enfer, garçon de singe!
I've always said that I'll stand up for the right of other people to smoke in public places when they stand up for my right to piss on their shoes. Haven't gotten any takers though.
I hated that Library level too, not so much that it was repetitive (the underground ruins in the swamp were worse in that regard to me; I got lost in there more), but that it was the only level of the game that didn't seem to be beatable on Legendary. All the rest of the game I could do something to stay alive, but the library was godawful. Almost as if nobody bothered to play-test it on all the difficulties, or maybe they expected a second player on it... I dunno.
They got it right in Halo2, it had an incredible Legendary mode. I guess that was consolation for the awful multiplayer maps.
Er, I buy a lot of second-hand games because a lot of the games I want were printed in relatively small lots, and are hard to find. In the last few months I've picked up Skygunner (best game on the PS2), R-Type Delta, R-Types, Einhander, Gekioh, and Otogi 2 used. While I did get them all cheap ($26 for Einhander was the highest), that wasn't my motivation. Getting some good games was the motivation. You can't frequently find that kind of stuff in your usual $50 per really recent hyped title sort of store.
Why not just output the log to an html table? Then anyone can read it in a browser, and excel will open it too if someone wants to mess with it.
I wake up nearly blind anyway. I can usually focus my eyes after about 15 minutes, but I'm fairly useless until then.
Well, the scenario of taking CDs to work to play them on networked military PCs is not implausible at all; there are thousands of GS/staff employees who do that. What is implausible, at least in my experience, is those users having admin access to their machines. Was this rootkit able to install on XP under a user or power user account?
Projectiles were 3d objects in Rune, many years ago. The multiplayer was sort of a melee Quake, but you could throw any weapon at any time (at the risk of not having a weapon afterwards). It was pretty neat to kill someone by bouncing a sword off a jump pad and skewering them, too. You should check it out sometime, it was a fun game.
There was also a mod for the original Quake that made rockets use teleporters, though I don't know that they considered walls or anything. If you want to see some amazing stuff done with the original Quake engine, look up a total conversion called Malice. It was actually a commercial release, like a third party expansion pack, but it was pretty awesome. It was also the first FPS I can remember that tried to tell some form of coherent story through cutscenes and scripted sequences.
I'd rather tie them up, give them some oxygen, and drop them in a tank of hungry lobsters.
My first viruses were on System 7 on a mac IIsi. Norton Antivirus at the time was considerably worse than having a virus, but there was some free virus scanner (with an italic v in a shield for an icon, but I can't remember its name) that was fairly effective.
I remember one virus that went through the (then System 7.5) networked macs at my school and made them all play their 'quack' alert sound nonstop, which was pretty amusing in the computer labs. A lot of the viruses after that one would totally nuke AppleTalk, and combined with the lack of decent AV, was one of the reasons my school system dumped macs in favor of windows 95B/novell netware. We tried to run them sort of half and half, but AppleTalk packets would congest the network and stop novell from working, so it was one or the other.
We actually (amazingly) had fewer virus problems after that, but more malicious user problems, since the jerks mostly had 95 machines at home, and knew enough to mess with them. Thus began our endless pursuit of secure user attachments for Win9x, beginning with the laughably ineffective Fortres. Fortunately after Win2k came out, system policies could be tweaked to really lock down boxes, and almost all the problems (including netware, since we switched to windows servers) went away.
I still have a Mac-in-a-box (a classic) that I use for a doorstop, but that's about it.
I'm not sure how it happened exactly, but at one point in highschool I actually got a TI-85 virus via a link cable. It would flick random pixels on the screen on and off, sort of like a light static on the picture. Had to clear the whole calculator to get rid of it.
Databases get mined/combined, and I'm sure the combination of my name/email was out there somewhere waiting to meet name/vicodin. If it was a coincidence, it was a damned coincidental one. I mean, no medication spam at all (and very little spam in general, ~4/week), and then suddenly up to 3 vicodin spam a day?
I noticed something similar when I bought my house, now I get tons and tons of remortgage and mortgage insurance spam (to the point where I finally installed some filters, false positives be damned), and even worse, I get real physical junkmail of the same, sometimes 3 or 4 in a week. The only junkmail I ever got before that was the occasional (1 a month or so) credit card offer.
I'm normally not even a paranoid person, but those sorts of things are just too convenient to be pure coincidence. There's just something insidious about advertising that makes me assume the worst about it.
And as for the doctor, I'm fairly trusting of them (two of my closest friends are a pharmacist and a dentist, albeit one that doesn't take out wisdom teeth)... until they recommend something really stupid like taking vicodin. Prescribing an ineffective narcotic painkiller with bad side effects where an anti-inflammatory (or chewing some ice the next day, for that matter) would have done better with no side effects? Ehh... He did a competent enough job getting the giant sideways teeth out, but I'm not taking his medication advice.
Though I did claim all the remains of said teeth and amuse myself the next day by reassembling them bit by bit with super glue.
eBay has popups? I've never seen one there, ever. The only places I regularly go that throw me popups are Reuters (which has gotten progressively worse over the years, now there's not even news on the front page of their site) and TigerDirect (who seem to be ok, except for their lone popup window).
I never got a single spam for Vicodin (or any other medication) until I had my wisdom teeth pulled two years ago. I told the doctor I didn't want it (and didn't even get it filled), but he wrote me a prescription for it. Two days later the spam started. It arrives at my trashy public email to this day.
I've seriously considered forwarding that entire account to the doctor.
I crashed SMB 3 several times, though I can't think of any other NES games I had that ever gave me trouble.
Where's the battery go?
I dunno about GSA, but I'm fairly certain that Fort Gordon's University of IT has been using MySQL as the backend for their PostNuke based training portals for about 3 years, and some of the other schools are starting to field similar systems.
Well, if you liked Diablo 2 for the gauntlet-ish hordes of monsters and slinging spells/arrows all over the place while dodging stuff, then you probably wouldn't like Guild Wars anyway. Its a whole lot nicer than all the other lame 'MMO' games, but it still feels borderline tedious due to its pacing. Its more akin to Neverwinter Nights, except a lot prettier, and with a lot more skills (feats, whatever).
I haven't played it since the ATI free 10 hour trial thing, but its not bad. I probably would have bought it if my laptop ran it better.
Er, who would ever want a music library that rings? I'm going to have a non-ringing device for that anyway, so why duplicate it in a phone?
Things that ring have a short lifespan around me anyway, and I wouldn't want to be killing all my music on a regular basis. Ever taken a nailbat to a cellphone?
Mobile Light Force (PS1) is Gunbird 1.
Gunbird 2 is on the Dreamcast.
Mobile Light Force 2 (PS2, with the same awful box art as MLF 1) is Castle Shikigami 1.
Castle Shikigami 2 is on the PS2.
The story of Shikigami 1 isn't foobared, its just gone. Entirely. Though as you say, the gameplay is intact and the game is dirt cheap off ebay. So is Shikigami 2. I've got them both, and I'd say that 1 has better bosses, but the engrish story in 2 is hilariously awful, and sorely missed in 1. Though if the story in 2 is actually translated correctly, then maybe I can understand why they cut the story out of 1.
They're both awesome co-op shooters, though, as is Gradius V.