I'm guessing this one doesn't have a drunken Dr. Tenma selling Astro off to the brutal robot circus. Or maybe it does, but the trailer doesn't presage such a thing. Anyone seen a sneak preview, legal or otherwise?
But, hey, now we know that Astro was "born ready".:-\
Maybe he'll be doing the kicking of the asses and the taking of the names and the chewing of the gum of the bubbles.
Woops. Sorry. Started channeling Starfire for a moment.
Meh. It was just symbolic of the whole shift. It's hard to really put a finger on it. It used to be fake glitz that Ma and Pa Kent could enjoy. Now, instead of free buffets and comps falling from the ceiling, you get the Wynn with its Lamborghini dealership. They made the glitz real, but that took the easy going fun away.
Hot cocktail waitress outfits at the Wynn, though.
Yeah, you can count a shoe. It's not often, but the count does diverge wildy plus or minus some times. It's just not often enough to be much fun.
And some of us gamers cry "Thank effing baby Jebus" for that. Have you missed all the complaints about how gaming is too dominated by graphic card wank fests over who has the best lighting effects or water reflections? Or how the hardware has advanced too much along the polygon count side, actually making it difficult to do anything else other than service shiny graphics, enemy AI or any other intellectual concerns be damned?
I guess the bright side is I won't be blowing $300 every 2 years on graphics cards.
Yeah, bingo. People are getting tired of that. A friend showed me a newer PC FPS a couple weeks ago. Pretty as all hell, but just another goddamned shooter with dumbass enemies and puzzles for the short bus crowd. Whee!
For me the way to ease the purchase of a new gen console is with strong backward compatibility. When I bought an XBox 360, it was partially because I never had the original XBox, and the XBox games (Halo 1/2, Fable 1, Jade Empire, etc.) I wanted to play were on the compatibility list. I really feel Sony dropped the ball when they dropped PS2 compatibility.
I've gone back and rented a number of Gamecube games (Tales Of Symphonia, Eternal Darkness, etc.) for my Wii. If Nintendo wanted to have achieved true awesomeness in my eyes, they would have put a slot for Gameboy Advance games in the thing. I played some GBA games on the attachment for the Gamecube, and playing them on a big TV is great. Advance Wars with big, glorious maps made the game much more epic.
I also recall the Sega 32X and the CD for the N64. both of which I have. Nifty idea, but the developers just don't develop in droves for something not in the core system specs.
Did you toss him off the Stratosphere for that? Honestly, I have little patience for people who think pointing out most people lose at gambling is some sort of deep and wise utterance.
The answer is "so what?" People are entertained. What other form of entertainment has at least a chance of winning money back?
The thing that's bizarre to people like me, people who win at gambling because we choose out battles carefully, is that the casinos are going to such lengths to go after what is really nothing more than a chimera. There's no massive threat from good players. In fact, a guy having a good run at a table was once considered free PR for the casino. The noobs would figure the table was "hot" and start gambling there. These places must spend more on cocktail napkins in a day than a busload of counters could hope to take out of them. And as some other posters said, the idea of there being a beatable game draws in a lot of amateur counters who just wind up contributing to the napkin budget.
People make the "it's a business" argument to excuse all sorts of douchebaggery these days, but let's go with that. Are these systems ever going to pay for themselves, or just start alienating people even more as word of false positives get around? It's like the ridiculous extremist stuff Homeland Security comes up with that sounds all high tech and cool but won't actually accomplish anything positive.
Since they ruined Blackjack, I tried poker. Nope. There's always one douchebag who has watched too many episodes of Celebrity Poker on TV and goes "ALL IN! HOO-YAH" every other hand. Or they're staring at you like a mental patient looking for the tell, or whatever the cool kids call it these days. Makes it easy to give them false tells, but the fun to asshole ratio is just not high enough.
"Vegas is like Monte Carlo as re-imagined by white trash."
Your wife's friend is way off target. Her bigotry aside, it's what happens when soulless hotel corporations take over everything. Vegas was vastly more fun when it *was* trashy.
They brought back a lot of single deck last time I was there years ago, but in single deck a blackjack now pays 5:4 instead of 3:2. Sounds subtle to the amateur, but it's a huge hit to the player. A lot of the player's side of the math is that occasional 3:2 payoff. I can still do well with double deck with a modified single deck system, but Blackjack is pretty dead now. Cripes, they used to have prime time promotional hours where they'd pay 2:1 for blackjacks.
The whole place has lost its identity anyway. First they tried catering to families for a while, and then they went after the "high end" market- whatever. I make nearly $200K a year and the place feels ridiculous now. Vegas used to be a place where Joe Average could feel like a champ. In my dad's day they'd comp you stuff if you just stood still long enough. He once got a coupon for a free buffet at a casino he walked into just to use the rest room. True story.
Now I would not be surprised if you told me they started charging for the air in the rooms. I knew it was really over when I was walking through the Hard Rock Casino (*gag*) and saw a big crowd of people looking at something, and there was Paris Hilton in a shop (excuse me, a Shoppe- no, wait, a Boutique) trying on hats. Also true story.
Or maybe they are getting too cocky. Remember how the Sony guys were all like "Oh, we can charge anything for the PS3 and people will bend over and pay it" and all that hoo ha that blew up in their faces. Toyota might be thinking in "there's no such thing as *bad* PR" mode.
Grown adults with college degrees sat around in meetings and agreed to this. They thought it was a good idea. It must have been a somewhat long process- coming up with the concept, refining it, composing the threatening emails, foraging for opt-ins, getting the emails sent- and in all that time these university enhanced creatures thought it was all just tickety-boo.
I've watched crappy captured video a few times just to see the opening of a film and decide if it's looks like something I want to see. It can be a decent preview method. better than a slick trailer that misrepresents the film, or gives away the only good bits.
Human 203900.9 is clearly the oldest and still receiving monthly updates.
Some feel the last 600 or so updates have introduced a lot of bugs, but there is evidence those bugs have existed since the early beta tests. The manuals are also a bit dated, with much of the troubleshooting section involving banging on things with stone axes.
1. Life that is intelligent and we can communicate with. 2. Life which creates a biosphere where we can live.
3. Life that creates sexy green alien women. 4. Where shall we take her out to lunch? 5. Profit! (Of a sort)
How would you go about communicating with an intelligent dust cloud, for example, that had neurone-equivalents a light-second across and finished a complete thought every few years and couldn't perceive anything smaller than a planet?
Really? I would have thought the "Der! Hooman iz teh stoopid" posts would be Redundant around here by now. Or have they ascended (read: descended) to the rank of Obligatory?
And I always suspect most posts like that translate to "Other people dare to deviate from my perfect, genius opinions, dammit, and therefore humanity has no intelligence!"
That's always been my attitude. Some people trot out the Drake equation like it's some sort of holy writ not full of massive unknowns. Almost as bad as when people speak of Moore's "Law" taking care of something.
Nobody without decent charisma can do a good job. You have to be able to sell what you do and sell your opinions to you colleagues and supervisors.
Piffle. I have no charisma whatsoever, but I'm considered one of the best at what I do (very dense and very high speed digital design - mainly R&D but we do take units into the field occasionally) in a large company, and even some other companies who know me.
People buy into my ideas because they are *good* ideas, and the other engineers are skilled enough to recognize that. And so I don't sound like Mr. Giga-ego (I actually have fairly low self esteem in most areas), I buy into their good ideas as well, and their personalities don't enter into it. In fact, one of the best revisions to a design I ever made was suggested by a guy I considered a total asshole, but it was a damn good idea, and we even got along better after that.
Charisma? That's for selling subprime loans, politicians and magnetic healing bracelets.
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I'm guessing this one doesn't have a drunken Dr. Tenma selling Astro off to the brutal robot circus. Or maybe it does, but the trailer doesn't presage such a thing. Anyone seen a sneak preview, legal or otherwise?
But, hey, now we know that Astro was "born ready". :-\
Maybe he'll be doing the kicking of the asses and the taking of the names and the chewing of the gum of the bubbles.
Woops. Sorry. Started channeling Starfire for a moment.
Ummmmm... yeah, I think it is 6:5. D'oh! :-) I've been out of the game for a while. Having much better success with the horses. More fun, too.
Meh. It was just symbolic of the whole shift. It's hard to really put a finger on it. It used to be fake glitz that Ma and Pa Kent could enjoy. Now, instead of free buffets and comps falling from the ceiling, you get the Wynn with its Lamborghini dealership. They made the glitz real, but that took the easy going fun away.
Hot cocktail waitress outfits at the Wynn, though.
Yeah, you can count a shoe. It's not often, but the count does diverge wildy plus or minus some times. It's just not often enough to be much fun.
Never surrender! :-)
Seriously, only some really arcane counting systems I have seen ever incorporated surrender.
Game graphics advances will be stunted
And some of us gamers cry "Thank effing baby Jebus" for that. Have you missed all the complaints about how gaming is too dominated by graphic card wank fests over who has the best lighting effects or water reflections? Or how the hardware has advanced too much along the polygon count side, actually making it difficult to do anything else other than service shiny graphics, enemy AI or any other intellectual concerns be damned?
I guess the bright side is I won't be blowing $300 every 2 years on graphics cards.
Yeah, bingo. People are getting tired of that. A friend showed me a newer PC FPS a couple weeks ago. Pretty as all hell, but just another goddamned shooter with dumbass enemies and puzzles for the short bus crowd. Whee!
For me the way to ease the purchase of a new gen console is with strong backward compatibility. When I bought an XBox 360, it was partially because I never had the original XBox, and the XBox games (Halo 1/2, Fable 1, Jade Empire, etc.) I wanted to play were on the compatibility list. I really feel Sony dropped the ball when they dropped PS2 compatibility.
I've gone back and rented a number of Gamecube games (Tales Of Symphonia, Eternal Darkness, etc.) for my Wii. If Nintendo wanted to have achieved true awesomeness in my eyes, they would have put a slot for Gameboy Advance games in the thing. I played some GBA games on the attachment for the Gamecube, and playing them on a big TV is great. Advance Wars with big, glorious maps made the game much more epic.
I also recall the Sega 32X and the CD for the N64. both of which I have. Nifty idea, but the developers just don't develop in droves for something not in the core system specs.
Just remember, that wasn't built on winners.
Did you toss him off the Stratosphere for that? Honestly, I have little patience for people who think pointing out most people lose at gambling is some sort of deep and wise utterance.
The answer is "so what?" People are entertained. What other form of entertainment has at least a chance of winning money back?
The thing that's bizarre to people like me, people who win at gambling because we choose out battles carefully, is that the casinos are going to such lengths to go after what is really nothing more than a chimera. There's no massive threat from good players. In fact, a guy having a good run at a table was once considered free PR for the casino. The noobs would figure the table was "hot" and start gambling there. These places must spend more on cocktail napkins in a day than a busload of counters could hope to take out of them. And as some other posters said, the idea of there being a beatable game draws in a lot of amateur counters who just wind up contributing to the napkin budget.
People make the "it's a business" argument to excuse all sorts of douchebaggery these days, but let's go with that. Are these systems ever going to pay for themselves, or just start alienating people even more as word of false positives get around? It's like the ridiculous extremist stuff Homeland Security comes up with that sounds all high tech and cool but won't actually accomplish anything positive.
Since they ruined Blackjack, I tried poker. Nope. There's always one douchebag who has watched too many episodes of Celebrity Poker on TV and goes "ALL IN! HOO-YAH" every other hand. Or they're staring at you like a mental patient looking for the tell, or whatever the cool kids call it these days. Makes it easy to give them false tells, but the fun to asshole ratio is just not high enough.
"Vegas is like Monte Carlo as re-imagined by white trash."
Your wife's friend is way off target. Her bigotry aside, it's what happens when soulless hotel corporations take over everything. Vegas was vastly more fun when it *was* trashy.
They brought back a lot of single deck last time I was there years ago, but in single deck a blackjack now pays 5:4 instead of 3:2. Sounds subtle to the amateur, but it's a huge hit to the player. A lot of the player's side of the math is that occasional 3:2 payoff. I can still do well with double deck with a modified single deck system, but Blackjack is pretty dead now. Cripes, they used to have prime time promotional hours where they'd pay 2:1 for blackjacks.
The whole place has lost its identity anyway. First they tried catering to families for a while, and then they went after the "high end" market- whatever. I make nearly $200K a year and the place feels ridiculous now. Vegas used to be a place where Joe Average could feel like a champ. In my dad's day they'd comp you stuff if you just stood still long enough. He once got a coupon for a free buffet at a casino he walked into just to use the rest room. True story.
Now I would not be surprised if you told me they started charging for the air in the rooms. I knew it was really over when I was walking through the Hard Rock Casino (*gag*) and saw a big crowd of people looking at something, and there was Paris Hilton in a shop (excuse me, a Shoppe- no, wait, a Boutique) trying on hats. Also true story.
Last one standing get lifted out,
Piffle. This here is Thunderdome. They leave under their own power or not at all. :-P
It was a hard sell.
Or maybe they are getting too cocky. Remember how the Sony guys were all like "Oh, we can charge anything for the PS3 and people will bend over and pay it" and all that hoo ha that blew up in their faces. Toyota might be thinking in "there's no such thing as *bad* PR" mode.
Grown adults with college degrees sat around in meetings and agreed to this. They thought it was a good idea. It must have been a somewhat long process- coming up with the concept, refining it, composing the threatening emails, foraging for opt-ins, getting the emails sent- and in all that time these university enhanced creatures thought it was all just tickety-boo.
I dunno. My head hurts.
I've watched crappy captured video a few times just to see the opening of a film and decide if it's looks like something I want to see. It can be a decent preview method. better than a slick trailer that misrepresents the film, or gives away the only good bits.
He's just defending his intellectual property.
He can't do it through normal legal channels because Satan pwns all the lawyers.
Anyway, that's what I heard from a friend whose cousin knows Glenn Beck's landscaper.
Of all the animated women to choose... huh?
I'd rather see Lois Griffin.
Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my data and I ain't together,
Keeps deletin' all the time
Of course.
1. Use LHC to make black hole.
2. Hide LHC in black hole.
3. Put black hole in carry on bag.
Simple.
Agreed on amazon. I go there for reviews even when I'm going to purchase something locally.
But what has changed that so many people's lives would seemingly fall apart if they had to put down the phone for 10 minutes?
Egos.
You're looking through the wrong end of the scope.
Human 203900.9 is clearly the oldest and still receiving monthly updates.
Some feel the last 600 or so updates have introduced a lot of bugs, but there is evidence those bugs have existed since the early beta tests. The manuals are also a bit dated, with much of the troubleshooting section involving banging on things with stone axes.
1. Life that is intelligent and we can communicate with.
2. Life which creates a biosphere where we can live.
3. Life that creates sexy green alien women.
4. Where shall we take her out to lunch?
5. Profit! (Of a sort)
How would you go about communicating with an intelligent dust cloud, for example, that had neurone-equivalents a light-second across and finished a complete thought every few years and couldn't perceive anything smaller than a planet?
Patiently?
Really? I would have thought the "Der! Hooman iz teh stoopid" posts would be Redundant around here by now. Or have they ascended (read: descended) to the rank of Obligatory?
And I always suspect most posts like that translate to "Other people dare to deviate from my perfect, genius opinions, dammit, and therefore humanity has no intelligence!"
That's always been my attitude. Some people trot out the Drake equation like it's some sort of holy writ not full of massive unknowns. Almost as bad as when people speak of Moore's "Law" taking care of something.
Nobody without decent charisma can do a good job. You have to be able to sell what you do and sell your opinions to you colleagues and supervisors.
Piffle. I have no charisma whatsoever, but I'm considered one of the best at what I do (very dense and very high speed digital design - mainly R&D but we do take units into the field occasionally) in a large company, and even some other companies who know me.
People buy into my ideas because they are *good* ideas, and the other engineers are skilled enough to recognize that. And so I don't sound like Mr. Giga-ego (I actually have fairly low self esteem in most areas), I buy into their good ideas as well, and their personalities don't enter into it. In fact, one of the best revisions to a design I ever made was suggested by a guy I considered a total asshole, but it was a damn good idea, and we even got along better after that.
Charisma? That's for selling subprime loans, politicians and magnetic healing bracelets.