They're *too* tame. Where's the Hanar love interest for my femshep? Tentacles, baby! Or a hot sexy Elcor for maleshep?
Elcor: Expression of ecstasy. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh yes. Now the next one. Shepard: How many holes do you have back here? Elcor: Alluring quip. They are legion. The time of my climax is coming.
Maybe the magic boy in the Citadel can wave his magic wand again and make a magic light that combines the gay and the anti-gay into a single, synthesized form.
That's all fine. The problem is that you are declaring everything outside what you like to be rubbish and bullshit, and that's nonsensical, albeit typical. Yes, Angry Birds is a big hit. So is Skyrim.
I have a very complicated job that involves designing things that get shot into outer space. I find deep and complicated game worlds like Skyrim to be incredibly relaxing after a long day. It's not all twitch and skills. You can spend a lot of time just ferreting out how the game world works and how the various skill and magic systems interact, maybe in ways even the game's designers didn't expect. And then a dragon lands on your head.:-)
There's an entire continuum of gaming available, from the complicated to the simple. Skill levels from Demon's Souls to the latest Bejeweled clone. And it's everywhere. You can play a simple puzzler on XBox Live Arcade, or delve deep into FF Tactics job trees on an iPad. The Golden Age of gaming is right freaking now, man.
Skyrim has cost me 50 cents per hour of entertainment so far. Find me a better deal. My shiny new optimized assassin thief alchemist is ready for the DLC. Where's my DLC, Bethesda!? Eh, I'll go make that Fortify Speech Amulet Of Give Me All Your Money instead, I guess, and I need a new batch of poisons.
I think a lot of people see it as misplaced self righteousness, maybe?
I'm reminded of a story in recent years about a family who was trying to live some sort of "sustainable" lifestyle or something, and they were all smug about it. They only bought locally grown food and rode bikes and the usual stuff. Meanwhile, they live in a nice home in a major city, and the parents were well paid professionals. The only reason their little experiment works is because everyone *else* is still doing the regular things in the regular manner. The family is riding on the back of a massive support system and claiming to be independent and self sustaining. Not a good analogy, but there it is.
Our current economic mess has equal blame in both the private and public sectors. For example, the ridiculous loan investment products tanked because financial institutions got lost in their own shiny mathematics, and a lot of the loans chopped into the mix were bad thanks to happy unicorn and ainbow government initiatives. This shit is so widely reported and readily available that it's one of the biggest mysteries of the human race why otherwise intelligent people cling to these binary points of view, and continue to advocate for one team or the other.
There's a scene in the Mission Earth series (not Battlefield Earth) where the hero is trying to tug an ice asteroid into Earth orbit, gets disrupted by something, and derps it all over Russia.
Yeah, yeah, I know. L. Ron Hubbard, but I found the whole ten book series in hardback at a yard sale for $5. Actually starts out OK as space opera, goes seriously off the rails in the middle and, curiously, mostly gets back on the rails in the last book. I just liked the idea that Earth culture is so damned toxic that even a small import of it nearly brings a multi-million year old advanced alien culture crashing down, and they are forced to kill, treat or imprison anyone exposed, and ruthlessly suppress any evidence that Earth even exists before they can recover.
Unfortunately our country (USA) is run by a bunch of intelligent, alpha sopciopaths, some of whom claim belief in creationist theory in order to get votes from the actual stupid people. What's worse is that we voted these fools into power because even by the primaries we have no choice except evil lizard A and evil lizard B.
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Except that Dahmer is dead and cannot run for office. This is California, not Chicago.
They're *too* tame. Where's the Hanar love interest for my femshep? Tentacles, baby! Or a hot sexy Elcor for maleshep?
Elcor: Expression of ecstasy. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh yes. Now the next one.
Shepard: How many holes do you have back here?
Elcor: Alluring quip. They are legion. The time of my climax is coming.
They put it in there for people who might like it?
I just didn't pursue a gay relationship in the game. Problem solved.
Maybe the magic boy in the Citadel can wave his magic wand again and make a magic light that combines the gay and the anti-gay into a single, synthesized form.
That's all fine. The problem is that you are declaring everything outside what you like to be rubbish and bullshit, and that's nonsensical, albeit typical. Yes, Angry Birds is a big hit. So is Skyrim.
I have a very complicated job that involves designing things that get shot into outer space. I find deep and complicated game worlds like Skyrim to be incredibly relaxing after a long day. It's not all twitch and skills. You can spend a lot of time just ferreting out how the game world works and how the various skill and magic systems interact, maybe in ways even the game's designers didn't expect. And then a dragon lands on your head. :-)
There's an entire continuum of gaming available, from the complicated to the simple. Skill levels from Demon's Souls to the latest Bejeweled clone. And it's everywhere. You can play a simple puzzler on XBox Live Arcade, or delve deep into FF Tactics job trees on an iPad. The Golden Age of gaming is right freaking now, man.
Skyrim has cost me 50 cents per hour of entertainment so far. Find me a better deal. My shiny new optimized assassin thief alchemist is ready for the DLC. Where's my DLC, Bethesda!? Eh, I'll go make that Fortify Speech Amulet Of Give Me All Your Money instead, I guess, and I need a new batch of poisons.
I have all the consoles. And a gaming PC. And an iPad.
*Real* gamers play everywhere. :-)
(Fires up GPS app)
Where did they toss it?
I said it was a bad analogy.
I hear they aren't real Scotsmen, either.
I think a lot of people see it as misplaced self righteousness, maybe?
I'm reminded of a story in recent years about a family who was trying to live some sort of "sustainable" lifestyle or something, and they were all smug about it. They only bought locally grown food and rode bikes and the usual stuff. Meanwhile, they live in a nice home in a major city, and the parents were well paid professionals. The only reason their little experiment works is because everyone *else* is still doing the regular things in the regular manner. The family is riding on the back of a massive support system and claiming to be independent and self sustaining. Not a good analogy, but there it is.
Our current economic mess has equal blame in both the private and public sectors. For example, the ridiculous loan investment products tanked because financial institutions got lost in their own shiny mathematics, and a lot of the loans chopped into the mix were bad thanks to happy unicorn and ainbow government initiatives. This shit is so widely reported and readily available that it's one of the biggest mysteries of the human race why otherwise intelligent people cling to these binary points of view, and continue to advocate for one team or the other.
*cough*ARPANET*cough*
Scorpions!
There's a scene in the Mission Earth series (not Battlefield Earth) where the hero is trying to tug an ice asteroid into Earth orbit, gets disrupted by something, and derps it all over Russia.
Yeah, yeah, I know. L. Ron Hubbard, but I found the whole ten book series in hardback at a yard sale for $5. Actually starts out OK as space opera, goes seriously off the rails in the middle and, curiously, mostly gets back on the rails in the last book. I just liked the idea that Earth culture is so damned toxic that even a small import of it nearly brings a multi-million year old advanced alien culture crashing down, and they are forced to kill, treat or imprison anyone exposed, and ruthlessly suppress any evidence that Earth even exists before they can recover.
Thanks! And I do it without chemicals!
Unfortunately our country (USA) is run by a bunch of intelligent, alpha sopciopaths, some of whom claim belief in creationist theory in order to get votes from the actual stupid people. What's worse is that we voted these fools into power because even by the primaries we have no choice except evil lizard A and evil lizard B.
FTFY. :-)
Ah!
http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/16/lacie-brick-hard-drive-as-lego-block/
3 - determine which can have their orbit modified so as to be placed in orbit around earth
4 - Oops!
He does seem to be going on about this issue a bit lately.
What are you not telling us, Neil?
There were no humans around a million years ago, what makes you think there will in a million?
Sentience.
And what makes you think we have the energy to sustain anything close to what we have enjoyed for the past 150 years ????
E = mc^2
Idiot.
Defeatist.
Approximations :-)
Hey, it worked for the Voyager probes.
I've hit a bit of a brick wall when it comes to testing hard disks
Have you tried throwing them against the brick wall?
Er... if I ever need such a procedure, can I request the spider anyway?
Your analog is off by many orders of magnitude.
See that there is why you want to go digital.