I know. Any negative assessment of any news or article is modded flamebait these days. Geez, I never even use the Flamebait mod because I find it a waste of mod points.
The new, better toxic oceans will simply be a tought playing field for our watery bretheren. The competition will be fierce, but in the end the seas will be populated by new fish. Better fish. New, better races of ATOMIC SUPERFISH THAT I SHALL BEND TO MY WILL AND RULE THE WORLD! Ha ha ha ha! Despair, ye mortals, and weep! Oh, Discordia!
Imagine! Goldfish that shoot lasers from their eyes! Tuna that can bite through adamantium! Shrimp that can do your taxes! Coelacanths that can write bug free code! Oh, the mind wobbles. More toxins! DUMP MORE TOXINS, DAMMIT!
Everyone raves about all the old games. I whip out MAME or a NES emulator now and again, but the thrill just isn't there anymore. I remember being astonished, when playing Pac Mac for the first time in who knows how many years, that the maze was the same on every level. I'd completely forgotten.
Downloaded the Galaga demo on XBox live last week. Meh...
They're fun for a couple levels or rounds or waves or whatever, but then that's it.
I agree with one of the other posters, though. The games seem MUCH easier now. Maybe that's the problem.
Of course, I weakened the car's frame with a blowtorch... and the car was packed with explosives... and there was the whole "lit fuse" thing... but still! I disintegrated a car with my mind. Some anonymous guy with a video says so!
The point is never to make a car theftproof. The point is to make it harder to steal so that the thief will move on to a less secure care. No car thief want to take very long to get the car started, so "under 15 minutes" does not fly unl;ess the car is in a very isolated location.
But as with most issues, we focus on the wrong part. The problem isn't better technology, it's better punishment for the crime. There's still a distinction between stealing a car for a "joy ride" or taking it to a chop shop. There's guys with multiple car thefts on their records walking around free.
Who's apologetic? I tell people I have Macs because Windows is a shitpile, and most agree. Many say they wish they could get one but they have some reason (work, usually) that ties them to having a PC. At this point, no one actually *likes* Windows outside of the mentally ill and IT people who use it for job security.
It's the actors. You get the same bunch of losers doing all the films. Colin Farrell, Tom Cruise, Linsey Lohan, etc. It's boring to see them do film after film, especially when they can't act (Tom did, once upon a time).
I've met sadly too many people (and most of this group seems to be women) whose main concern about whether to see a movie is "who's in it?" The idea of a movie as an artform to tell a story is utterly alien to them.
How many times have you heard someone make fun a movie because it stars "a bunch of nobodies?" Our dippy culture is mired in celebrity worship, and it ain't gettin' any better.
We hung our sysadmin by his ankles from the roof of our tallest building, and told him that we'd very much appreciate it if our network would have somewhat more network connectivity than a 300 baud modem.
Oh, and a specially hired dominatrix worked him over for making us use Outlook.
If before the war in Iraq the US would have taken even a small part of the money spent on it, the entire economy would have been well on its way to becoming hydrogen based.
This idea assumes, of course, that God has a sneezing fit and the universe is suddenly run by cartoon physics.
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I know. Any negative assessment of any news or article is modded flamebait these days. Geez, I never even use the Flamebait mod because I find it a waste of mod points.
Who?
I know this has been asked many times before, but at what point did the opinion of dumbarses on blogs become "news"?
(Yeah, I know there's a lot of technical wizardry under the hood, but that's for the geeks).
What part of "developer's conference" did you not understand, dickhead?
Apple's head of marketing, Phil Schiller, is the most relaxed of the bunch and has his own cuddly charm.
Hey, I'm as infected by Shillermania as the next Machead, but cuddly?
The whole article reads like a MySpace posting by a 14 year old girl disappointed by the first experience with her latest 40 year old beau.
"Futurismic has just posted the first column from its new monthly contributor, the renowned Jamais Cascio.
Who?
Cascio is best known as a co-founder of Worldchanging.com,
Wow. They changed the world so much I never heard of them.
but is also a prolific blogger (at his own site 'Open The Future'),
My friend's cat has a blog. Admittedly it tends to cover catnip, hunting birds and napping positions, but it's a blog nonetheless.
writer, public speaker and pundit on many aspects of futurism and foresight.
Ah. A self-promoter, then.
The new, better toxic oceans will simply be a tought playing field for our watery bretheren. The competition will be fierce, but in the end the seas will be populated by new fish. Better fish. New, better races of ATOMIC SUPERFISH THAT I SHALL BEND TO MY WILL AND RULE THE WORLD! Ha ha ha ha! Despair, ye mortals, and weep! Oh, Discordia!
Imagine! Goldfish that shoot lasers from their eyes! Tuna that can bite through adamantium! Shrimp that can do your taxes! Coelacanths that can write bug free code! Oh, the mind wobbles. More toxins! DUMP MORE TOXINS, DAMMIT!
Everyone raves about all the old games. I whip out MAME or a NES emulator now and again, but the thrill just isn't there anymore. I remember being astonished, when playing Pac Mac for the first time in who knows how many years, that the maze was the same on every level. I'd completely forgotten.
Downloaded the Galaga demo on XBox live last week. Meh...
They're fun for a couple levels or rounds or waves or whatever, but then that's it.
I agree with one of the other posters, though. The games seem MUCH easier now. Maybe that's the problem.
Esoteric doesn't describe it. I'm a long time Tull, ELP and Zep fan, and *I* didn't get it. Clearly I missed a memo.
Thank you, baby Jesus!
Yeah, yeah... I like to drive my car from the back seat using rope, duct tape and a broomstick.
Next week ! On Mythbusters! :D
I disintegrated a car with my mind!
I have it on video!
Of course, I weakened the car's frame with a blowtorch... and the car was packed with explosives... and there was the whole "lit fuse" thing... but still! I disintegrated a car with my mind. Some anonymous guy with a video says so!
Well, hell, insert "Lovecraftian Old Golds" for "children" and "Earth's continents" for "cherry tree" why don't ya?
Turning the theoretical situation up to 11 does not change the fact that the dial was originally at 2.
And this is from someone who is very supportive of the police in general. I mean, DNA tests? What? Way overkill.
A masive disaster may be just what we need...
This is some odd, mutant cousin of Munchausen By Proxy Syndrome, isn't it?
It doesn't take a video snob to notice the difference.
True, but it takes a video snob to care.
Training Day
What?
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Who?
Rumor Has It
Wazzat?
These are their flagship release titles? Oh, I can't wait until these formats crater.
But as with most issues, we focus on the wrong part. The problem isn't better technology, it's better punishment for the crime. There's still a distinction between stealing a car for a "joy ride" or taking it to a chop shop. There's guys with multiple car thefts on their records walking around free.
There's just too little correlation between "Big Name Actor" and movie quality for it to be a valid metric.
Who's apologetic? I tell people I have Macs because Windows is a shitpile, and most agree. Many say they wish they could get one but they have some reason (work, usually) that ties them to having a PC. At this point, no one actually *likes* Windows outside of the mentally ill and IT people who use it for job security.
It's the actors. You get the same bunch of losers doing all the films. Colin Farrell, Tom Cruise, Linsey Lohan, etc. It's boring to see them do film after film, especially when they can't act (Tom did, once upon a time).
I've met sadly too many people (and most of this group seems to be women) whose main concern about whether to see a movie is "who's in it?" The idea of a movie as an artform to tell a story is utterly alien to them.
How many times have you heard someone make fun a movie because it stars "a bunch of nobodies?" Our dippy culture is mired in celebrity worship, and it ain't gettin' any better.
It was (yet another) a GOVERNMENT failure.
but if I gotta look at an avatar all day, I'd sooner look at a female avatar.
That's the beginning and end of it for me. I don't consider myself to be the characters I play. I'm more of a puppeteer pulling the strings.
some muppet at work hired a couple of "sys-admins"
You have muppets where you work? COOL!!
Are they "Sesame Street" level or the wicked keen "Farscape" level?
We hung our sysadmin by his ankles from the roof of our tallest building, and told him that we'd very much appreciate it if our network would have somewhat more network connectivity than a 300 baud modem.
Oh, and a specially hired dominatrix worked him over for making us use Outlook.
Ah, good times. :)
Cripes, at the price levels of these thing, spend the extra $50 to have the set delivered. Or wait for a free delivery special.
This idea assumes, of course, that God has a sneezing fit and the universe is suddenly run by cartoon physics.
When's the last time you punched that monkey?
Why just last ni- oh, wait, you said *punched*. Never mind.
Does story matter? Sometimes.
That's it. It's all personal taste. Persoanlly, I like games both with and without stories.
People need to stop trying to find a Universal Law Of Everything for terminally subjective issues.