Meh... the character was just too much of a jackass, and the voice was grating and incomprehensible at best. A more Arthur Dent-like character would have worked- someone just flat out lost but doing his best to deal with cosmic events way over his head. Like when Dent locks up the ship's computer trying to make tea. It was a disaster, but stemming from an honest mistake.
I moped around, talking to no one, for almost two weeks.
Really? I mean... really?
I left the theater, commented to my friends that Lucas had lost the formula somewhere along the way, and got on with life. I rented the next two. End of story.
Some people voluntarily downloading an app to censor their private viewing to their own tastes rubs you the wrong way?
You have a fine future ahead in the political arena, son! It's full of people who go nuts at the thought that someone, somewhere, is doing something according to their own whims.
Hey, I tease.
Anyone do the "all $LOW_NUMBER Zune users" yet? As, I see they have. Carry on then, lads (and all $LOW_NUMBER of you ladies).
Too bad she didn't have a shirt with a blinking light and circuitry on it.
Now *then* we would have seen hilarity ensue!:-)
"Shooting the suspicious electronic device on your shirt was a special courtesy we extend to our most enthusiastic visitors. Sorry your heart was right behind it. Have a nice day, and we look forward to your custom in future lifetimes."
Where is this monolithic "U.S." I keep hearing about? You are forgetting, as ever, that the USA has one of the most diverse populations in... ah, what's the fucking point...
Saw the gameplay of the PC version on X-Play today, and saw that you can issue movement commands during pause! WTF! Would that have been so hard on the console? The left stick does NOTHING during pause, so it's available for issuing a movement command. Just have a simple X you can move around.
And don't get me started on having to spend points on tactics slots. If the consoles were supposed to use tactics more, give me 50 friggin slots from the outset and let me program those bastards. The tactics were an order of magnitude deeper than FF12's gambits, but then I have just a handful of slots.
at the cost of the superior control scheme of Dragon Age
Ha! Dragon Age on the X360 has made me consider putting together a proper gaming PC again. I beat the game (no, not on Casual setting), but micromanaging the battles through the radial wheel was tedium personified. And I never did figure out which direction on the D-pad changed the target selection in what way. There was a general dense of direction, but then it would do something unexpected, or select a target way offscreen.
And, hey, Bioware? Maybe a little contextual influence on the target selection? Maybe? In the middle of the battle I don't need to select the locked chest 500 feet down the hallway, and I really don't need to loot the corpse of a fallen enemy right when a darkspwan is swinging an axe at my head. It's the little things like that that cry "polished" over "let's port this bitch over quickly". KTHX.
In my youth, I had naive libertarian beliefs about talented and competent people winning out in the free market against those types. Now that I've witnessed the naked annihilation of even the illusion of capitalism, via the bank bailouts... I just have no real hope that there is any way to make a living without either being one of those bullshitters, or poor blame taking saps.
Oh, cheer up. It's nearly Christmas!:-)
I guess the honorable thing is to just accept a sequence of blame taking jobs, and survive and get fed until we see a better age.
Maybe some universities will start offering that as a major.
What would everyone think if we found out that our solar system is just another binary star system amonst the trillions and quadrillions of other multiple star systems out there...
The average person wouldn't give a gnat's fart, and most wouldn't have a clue what you are even talking about.
Invite as many derelicts as you can find over for whiskey and popcorn
Er... maybe you should avoid those skid row porn theaters. There are some rather nicer theaters, and if you catch a matinee you can iften have an almost private showing.
Maybe. I remember my Radio Shack kit. When I got the AM radio to work, that was pure childhood magic. Eventually I cannibalized the kit for parts to build my own things.
We must think BIG and GLOBAL like GOOGLE! We will launch saplings into orbit on vast arks and scattershot them into the ground, thusly reforesting the world! Mwa ha ha! We call it the Forest Continuity Project and pay for it with lumber credits and carbon back bearer bonds and the illegal unicorn horn trade out of Romania! Yes, most of the trees will shatter on impact and fail to achieve a planted state, but if just one tree saves just one child then $50 trillion is worth it! Follow me, boys, into the glorious future and let the trees rain down o'er me!
Well, I see the *promises* of many sci-fi things, like the other story about regrowing nerves. Problem is that there's amazing medicine and science that have been promised over the 44 years of my life that I haven't see boo about since the announcements. Where's my two hour New York-Tokyo flight? Where's my replacement organs being grown inside of a cow? They were talking about regrowing limbs and in the 70s. Where's the line of nuclear desalination plants providing California with energy and fresh water? Solar power sats have been on the table since the late 60s. A.I. and fusion and all those other things are just around the corner- in perpetuity.
GM food + cell phone with a processor + robot with gun bolted to it != HAL9000 with an FTL drive
Cripes, even if we keep our aim low- 15 years ago there was an announcement of super realistic voice synthesis, but most computers still sound like Twiki from Buck Rogers. Bede bede bede bede, the real future sucks donkey balls, Buck!
The fricken Asmio robots even look a little like that fasrtsucking Twiki bitch bot grr argh! That's no hookerbot like in the movie A.I.
Where's my quantum dust based PS9, dammit? Well, OK, that was Sony getting high on its own spume in a TV ad... never mind. Something like that would probably fry your brain, but, hey, just get a fresh one from the cow.
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Meh... the character was just too much of a jackass, and the voice was grating and incomprehensible at best. A more Arthur Dent-like character would have worked- someone just flat out lost but doing his best to deal with cosmic events way over his head. Like when Dent locks up the ship's computer trying to make tea. It was a disaster, but stemming from an honest mistake.
I moped around, talking to no one, for almost two weeks.
Really? I mean... really?
I left the theater, commented to my friends that Lucas had lost the formula somewhere along the way, and got on with life. I rented the next two. End of story.
It gots teh crazy.
I tease. :)
But, seriously, Gavin's a tool. He should go back to the Love Boat.
Will he be marketing this canned anthrax to the general public? Does Homeland Securitah know about this?
I hear Zombie Bing Crosby is none too pleased, either.
Some people voluntarily downloading an app to censor their private viewing to their own tastes rubs you the wrong way?
You have a fine future ahead in the political arena, son! It's full of people who go nuts at the thought that someone, somewhere, is doing something according to their own whims.
Hey, I tease.
Anyone do the "all $LOW_NUMBER Zune users" yet? As, I see they have. Carry on then, lads (and all $LOW_NUMBER of you ladies).
It *is* cheese!
I hear you dude... I want to do that every time I see one running Windows.
If you get to it soon enough, and exorcism works just as well, and you have a usable computer afterward.
Too bad she didn't have a shirt with a blinking light and circuitry on it.
Now *then* we would have seen hilarity ensue! :-)
"Shooting the suspicious electronic device on your shirt was a special courtesy we extend to our most enthusiastic visitors. Sorry your heart was right behind it. Have a nice day, and we look forward to your custom in future lifetimes."
The U.S. has a sense of humor about criticism?
Where is this monolithic "U.S." I keep hearing about? You are forgetting, as ever, that the USA has one of the most diverse populations in... ah, what's the fucking point...
They could have just wrestled the laptop to the ground and beat it up a bit.
Saw the gameplay of the PC version on X-Play today, and saw that you can issue movement commands during pause! WTF! Would that have been so hard on the console? The left stick does NOTHING during pause, so it's available for issuing a movement command. Just have a simple X you can move around.
And don't get me started on having to spend points on tactics slots. If the consoles were supposed to use tactics more, give me 50 friggin slots from the outset and let me program those bastards. The tactics were an order of magnitude deeper than FF12's gambits, but then I have just a handful of slots.
at the cost of the superior control scheme of Dragon Age
Ha! Dragon Age on the X360 has made me consider putting together a proper gaming PC again. I beat the game (no, not on Casual setting), but micromanaging the battles through the radial wheel was tedium personified. And I never did figure out which direction on the D-pad changed the target selection in what way. There was a general dense of direction, but then it would do something unexpected, or select a target way offscreen.
And, hey, Bioware? Maybe a little contextual influence on the target selection? Maybe? In the middle of the battle I don't need to select the locked chest 500 feet down the hallway, and I really don't need to loot the corpse of a fallen enemy right when a darkspwan is swinging an axe at my head. It's the little things like that that cry "polished" over "let's port this bitch over quickly". KTHX.
In my youth, I had naive libertarian beliefs about talented and competent people winning out in the free market against those types. Now that I've witnessed the naked annihilation of even the illusion of capitalism, via the bank bailouts... I just have no real hope that there is any way to make a living without either being one of those bullshitters, or poor blame taking saps.
Oh, cheer up. It's nearly Christmas! :-)
I guess the honorable thing is to just accept a sequence of blame taking jobs, and survive and get fed until we see a better age.
Maybe some universities will start offering that as a major.
...Leo Laporte is *the* man for the job.
What would everyone think if we found out that our solar system is just another binary star system amonst the trillions and quadrillions of other multiple star systems out there...
The average person wouldn't give a gnat's fart, and most wouldn't have a clue what you are even talking about.
Wake me when they get to the Nexus-6 model, especially the pleasure units.
Thunderbirds are go!
Teach them cyber ne'er-do-well's what for, Brains!
Heretic
And damn proud of it!
Wait, what?
Invite as many derelicts as you can find over for whiskey and popcorn
Er... maybe you should avoid those skid row porn theaters. There are some rather nicer theaters, and if you catch a matinee you can iften have an almost private showing.
It's the Year Of The Linux Desktop^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Netbook!
Maybe. I remember my Radio Shack kit. When I got the AM radio to work, that was pure childhood magic. Eventually I cannibalized the kit for parts to build my own things.
We must think BIG and GLOBAL like GOOGLE! We will launch saplings into orbit on vast arks and scattershot them into the ground, thusly reforesting the world! Mwa ha ha! We call it the Forest Continuity Project and pay for it with lumber credits and carbon back bearer bonds and the illegal unicorn horn trade out of Romania! Yes, most of the trees will shatter on impact and fail to achieve a planted state, but if just one tree saves just one child then $50 trillion is worth it! Follow me, boys, into the glorious future and let the trees rain down o'er me!
I don't get it. I'm a lead engineer on satcom R&D projects. Joke? Huh.
Well, I see the *promises* of many sci-fi things, like the other story about regrowing nerves. Problem is that there's amazing medicine and science that have been promised over the 44 years of my life that I haven't see boo about since the announcements. Where's my two hour New York-Tokyo flight? Where's my replacement organs being grown inside of a cow? They were talking about regrowing limbs and in the 70s. Where's the line of nuclear desalination plants providing California with energy and fresh water? Solar power sats have been on the table since the late 60s. A.I. and fusion and all those other things are just around the corner- in perpetuity.
GM food + cell phone with a processor + robot with gun bolted to it != HAL9000 with an FTL drive
Cripes, even if we keep our aim low- 15 years ago there was an announcement of super realistic voice synthesis, but most computers still sound like Twiki from Buck Rogers. Bede bede bede bede, the real future sucks donkey balls, Buck!
The fricken Asmio robots even look a little like that fasrtsucking Twiki bitch bot grr argh! That's no hookerbot like in the movie A.I.
Where's my quantum dust based PS9, dammit? Well, OK, that was Sony getting high on its own spume in a TV ad... never mind. Something like that would probably fry your brain, but, hey, just get a fresh one from the cow.