I'm sorry, but I fail to see how XP looks anything but "dated", the hideous colors/theming aside.
My XP machines look even more dated because I have them set to the "classic" Win2000 style GUI. Those blue and silver themes literally gave me headaches, and my eyesight actually improved half a diopter after going back to the classic theme. Yah, probably a coincidence, but it makes a good story.:-)
No more best/worst of the decade stuff! No more, I tell you!
And you people pissing about the decade really ending next year- you people are worse! Look up the "astronomical calendar" already! French astronomers fixed the issue back in the 1700s by defining a year zero.
Or... they could seal the things better. One of the points, I thought, was LEDs last a long time. Some of the lights here seem to lose another LED every week. There's one on an onramp where half of them are gone after just a year in service. I'm sorry but that's stupid.
I didn't get the comment, either. I have the red/green issue, but the new LED lights mimic the original incandescent colors (which were selected with colorblindness in mind) well enough that it isn't a problem.
They also seem to be built poorly. Many of the ones here in So Cal have individual LEDs out. I'd suggest poor weatherproofing, but we so rarely have any weather.
Wearing a suit in the first place expresses plenty.
Yes, it says "I can go to a store and buy a suit."
Beyond that you can't divine anything else without knowing the person. A suit can mean anything from "I am a happy part of the collective" to "Vote for me so I can fuck with your life, and pass laws that will fuck you daily until you die."
Sorry. Never was impressed by suits. Too many skeevy professions mandate suit wearing.
You can still express your individuality. For example, make your hair like this.
They were considering IT uniforms where I work and solicited ideas. I submitted this, but I never heard back from anyone. I guess they were afraid it would discourage people from asking for help. Or overload the help line. One or the other. Maybe both.
is that some kind of MMO where you spend most of your time grinding for cash and rep rewards?
Not quite. You will have go grind for the cash in the "career mode" so you can afford to attract a mating partner. And if your Charisma, Empathy and Attractiveness stats are underbuffed it can still be tough going.
The are women in the game who will cut to the chase and trade mating directly for cash, but many gamers looks down on them for some reason, and the practice is even banned in some areas of the gameworld.
Yes, what does that monolithic mass of identically thinking game players want?
We want fantasy.
Wow. Figured that out all on your own, eh, Landry?
I've been shot at a couple of times. I don't mean I was sitting at the TV waving a controller around so a little pixel person could dodge cyborg powered armor piercing poison tipped bullets. Nope. These were just bullets from a simple and boring hand gun.
Does he mean he was actually shot at in real life? Could this be some sort of mental issue where he wants to recreate the effect that had on him?
I want a game that recreates that insane rush of endorphins and adrenaline or whatever it is after hearing a simple bullet crack past your ear.
Seriously weird. I once had a speeding, red light running car miss me (as a pedestrian) by inches, but I feel no desire to play Frogger a lot.
As a gamer I want a fun game. The path the developer takes to get there is irrelevant.
Realism is fine if done well, but ultimately nonessential. Would it help to have Mario asphyxiate in the screaming void of space while traveling between levels in Super Mario Galaxy? Well, actually, that *would* be pretty funny.
Anyway, there's more to gaming than bullets. There's entire games with a single bullet in them. Getting shot dead in Flower would be unnecessarily jarring.
The GEOGRAPHIC north pole doesn't drift appreciably, or flip - ever. If it did flip, the most obvious sign would be that the sun would rise in what we currently think of as the west, and set in what is now the east.
Second most obvious sign. The first most obvious sign would be the kinetic energy of the shift ripping the Earth apart. IOW, it ain't going to happen barring some uberaliens or the Hand Of God adding that amount of energy to the system. You're in Velikovsky territory with *physical* pole shifts.
I always thought we could just consolidate all US military bases into one, long skinny one along the border.:-)
The whole controversy is weird. It's like we're not allowed to have a border. You'd think it was Kashmir, but even India and Pakistan mange to have a little fun with it.
I can't think of any other border where people act like it's an offense against the universe. Meanwhile, you see all sorts of anti-illegal immigration laws being tightened around the world and you don't hear boo about them.
I read one years ago that tried to figure the energy requirements, and concluded the hypothetical super-reindeer would cover the Earth in a layer of reindeer shit a couple feet deep. Something like that.
They modded the AC down, but is it really wrong to posit that sex will once again be the big driver of new technology?
Some day one of these robot design teams to wander across the RealDoll site, and funny quips will lead to rough sketches which will lead to a small simulation being written in someone's spare time which will lead to...
That's nice. I quoted and was responding to the submitter's comment, and not the video, which I didn't watch because it sounded like an astonishing waste of time.
Well excuse the fuck out of me, but there *are* people who take this "they raped my childhood" crap seriously. It's impossible to tell anymore with all the pinhead loons walking around these days. Did you see how some folks acted after Michael Jackson died? You'd think their savior had been crucified or something.
I don't understand the massive vitrol aimed at films that ultimately aren't half as terrible as people would like us to believe.
It's all expectations as you said. I thought the two Matrix sequels were OK, but I went in expecting nothing more than a couple loud and kinetic sci-fi action popcorn flicks. I didn't buy into the weird hype, although I was unsatisfied with the ending. I was favoring the "matrix within the matrix" idea that some people floated after #2. Well, I also favored the "BSG takes place in our future" theory, so what do I know?;-)
Huh. The pod race was the only bit I liked. At least it was conceptually interesting: what sort of "bread and circuses" entertainment would some backwater mishmash culture with access to supertechnology come up with? It almost had a *-punk flavor. I thought it ranked right up there with Ben Hur's chariot race as an action set piece.
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I'm sorry, but I fail to see how XP looks anything but "dated", the hideous colors/theming aside.
My XP machines look even more dated because I have them set to the "classic" Win2000 style GUI. Those blue and silver themes literally gave me headaches, and my eyesight actually improved half a diopter after going back to the classic theme. Yah, probably a coincidence, but it makes a good story. :-)
No more best/worst of the decade stuff! No more, I tell you!
And you people pissing about the decade really ending next year- you people are worse! Look up the "astronomical calendar" already! French astronomers fixed the issue back in the 1700s by defining a year zero.
Argh! Hiss! Spit!
OK, better now. :)
AFCPS = Any Fool Can Plainly See :)
That is until IBM patents the pan.
Take the high road, son.
Patent the pan before IBM does.
stfu, ibm. srsy, u gd bmf. afcps ur awb. ur afu.
Or... they could seal the things better. One of the points, I thought, was LEDs last a long time. Some of the lights here seem to lose another LED every week. There's one on an onramp where half of them are gone after just a year in service. I'm sorry but that's stupid.
I didn't get the comment, either. I have the red/green issue, but the new LED lights mimic the original incandescent colors (which were selected with colorblindness in mind) well enough that it isn't a problem.
They also seem to be built poorly. Many of the ones here in So Cal have individual LEDs out. I'd suggest poor weatherproofing, but we so rarely have any weather.
Wearing a suit in the first place expresses plenty.
Yes, it says "I can go to a store and buy a suit."
Beyond that you can't divine anything else without knowing the person. A suit can mean anything from "I am a happy part of the collective" to "Vote for me so I can fuck with your life, and pass laws that will fuck you daily until you die."
Sorry. Never was impressed by suits. Too many skeevy professions mandate suit wearing.
You can still express your individuality. For example, make your hair like this.
They were considering IT uniforms where I work and solicited ideas. I submitted this, but I never heard back from anyone. I guess they were afraid it would discourage people from asking for help. Or overload the help line. One or the other. Maybe both.
is that some kind of MMO where you spend most of your time grinding for cash and rep rewards?
Not quite. You will have go grind for the cash in the "career mode" so you can afford to attract a mating partner. And if your Charisma, Empathy and Attractiveness stats are underbuffed it can still be tough going.
The are women in the game who will cut to the chase and trade mating directly for cash, but many gamers looks down on them for some reason, and the practice is even banned in some areas of the gameworld.
What Do Gamers Really Want?
Yes, what does that monolithic mass of identically thinking game players want?
We want fantasy.
Wow. Figured that out all on your own, eh, Landry?
I've been shot at a couple of times. I don't mean I was sitting at the TV waving a controller around so a little pixel person could dodge cyborg powered armor piercing poison tipped bullets. Nope. These were just bullets from a simple and boring hand gun.
Does he mean he was actually shot at in real life? Could this be some sort of mental issue where he wants to recreate the effect that had on him?
I want a game that recreates that insane rush of endorphins and adrenaline or whatever it is after hearing a simple bullet crack past your ear.
Seriously weird. I once had a speeding, red light running car miss me (as a pedestrian) by inches, but I feel no desire to play Frogger a lot.
As a gamer I want a fun game. The path the developer takes to get there is irrelevant.
Realism is fine if done well, but ultimately nonessential. Would it help to have Mario asphyxiate in the screaming void of space while traveling between levels in Super Mario Galaxy? Well, actually, that *would* be pretty funny.
Anyway, there's more to gaming than bullets. There's entire games with a single bullet in them. Getting shot dead in Flower would be unnecessarily jarring.
Cracked covered game realism with a Photoshop contest: http://www.cracked.com/photoshop_85_if-video-games-were-realistic_p27
The GEOGRAPHIC north pole doesn't drift appreciably, or flip - ever. If it did flip, the most obvious sign would be that the sun would rise in what we currently think of as the west, and set in what is now the east.
Second most obvious sign. The first most obvious sign would be the kinetic energy of the shift ripping the Earth apart. IOW, it ain't going to happen barring some uberaliens or the Hand Of God adding that amount of energy to the system. You're in Velikovsky territory with *physical* pole shifts.
Although "any millisecond now" *is* technically valid. :)
Maybe NASA can add a rapping dog, or maybe hire Paris Hilton to host the whole channel.
I always thought we could just consolidate all US military bases into one, long skinny one along the border. :-)
The whole controversy is weird. It's like we're not allowed to have a border. You'd think it was Kashmir, but even India and Pakistan mange to have a little fun with it.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1689795,00.html
I can't think of any other border where people act like it's an offense against the universe. Meanwhile, you see all sorts of anti-illegal immigration laws being tightened around the world and you don't hear boo about them.
I read one years ago that tried to figure the energy requirements, and concluded the hypothetical super-reindeer would cover the Earth in a layer of reindeer shit a couple feet deep. Something like that.
Mix the glamour of surgical self-improvement
Yeah, until they find your body. Then it has all the "glamor" of autoerotic asphyxiation.
And if it doesn't, it might win you a Darwin award.
Or you might be a redneck.
They modded the AC down, but is it really wrong to posit that sex will once again be the big driver of new technology?
Some day one of these robot design teams to wander across the RealDoll site, and funny quips will lead to rough sketches which will lead to a small simulation being written in someone's spare time which will lead to...
I've been known to do Jar jar voice, but but only ironically. ;-)
One expects the universe to have plenty of strange and stupid creatures.
That's nice. One might also desire fictional films, entirely created by humans for humans, not to have the stupid and grating ones as main characters.
[TWIKI VOICE]Bede bede bede bede, annoying characters are, at the end of the day, annoying, Buck.[/TWIKI VOICE]
That's nice. I quoted and was responding to the submitter's comment, and not the video, which I didn't watch because it sounded like an astonishing waste of time.
Well excuse the fuck out of me, but there *are* people who take this "they raped my childhood" crap seriously. It's impossible to tell anymore with all the pinhead loons walking around these days. Did you see how some folks acted after Michael Jackson died? You'd think their savior had been crucified or something.
I don't understand the massive vitrol aimed at films that ultimately aren't half as terrible as people would like us to believe.
It's all expectations as you said. I thought the two Matrix sequels were OK, but I went in expecting nothing more than a couple loud and kinetic sci-fi action popcorn flicks. I didn't buy into the weird hype, although I was unsatisfied with the ending. I was favoring the "matrix within the matrix" idea that some people floated after #2. Well, I also favored the "BSG takes place in our future" theory, so what do I know? ;-)
Huh. The pod race was the only bit I liked. At least it was conceptually interesting: what sort of "bread and circuses" entertainment would some backwater mishmash culture with access to supertechnology come up with? It almost had a *-punk flavor. I thought it ranked right up there with Ben Hur's chariot race as an action set piece.