Get people off their asses watching TV/movies in front of their stupid computers and get them on their asses in the living room watching TV/movies on their stupid HDTV.
He was portrayed that way because it makes a move interesting, but doesn't seem to be the real story.
Then what's the point? Why do a movie about a real person or event, and then make half of it up? Why not just do something original and let a documentary filmmaker take over. Maybe Michael Moore could- oops, no wait... bad example.
I never watch these docudrama films because I know there's loads of crap that never happened. I knew this one would be blown way our of proportion when I saw the "Punk. Prophet. Billionaire." tag line on the billboards. Prophet? WTF? Is he the Messiah, too?
I even predicted to a friend that there would be a line like "Our time is now" or "This is our time" because every movie like this has a line like that. And I was right. Ooo! Now I'm a prophet, too!:-P
In other news, physicists said that before the Big Bang there was either something or nothing. Oh, wait, bad example.:-) Ah, I tease you, physicists! Give us a smile.
And maybe superintelligent aliens have evolved beyond dreary, weepy, emo-goth kid, warmed over nihilism that uses Keanu Reeve movies to make their (for lack of a better term) point.
Aliens: Greeting, human worm baby. QD: Hi, I'm the supreme ruler here! Aliens: Shall we parlay? QD: No need. You can have the planet in exchange for an FTL star cruiser, the equivalent of ten billion dollars in your currency and a map to all the fun places in the galaxy. Aliens: Done and done. Does your species serve irrational rulers well? QD: They whine and moan a lot, but after a while they'll actually vote for you.
Hell, I'd sell you lot out for far, far less, but might as well aim high.
and no real plusses besides that he was well spoken
I cannot understand how that is an automatic plus. How many smooth talking, corrupt assholes do we have to have before people stop getting hypnotized by a silver tongued salsemen? In fact, the moment someone exhibits that ability my bullshit detectors switch into super-enhanced mode.
I remember Bruce Springsteen was starting concerts by complaining about Bush and wiretapping (because people go to concerts to hear yet more politics because they just don't get enough of it every single day). I wonder if he will continue to speak out, or is the right lizard in office now?
Not that I liked Blockbuster, but in 10 years I never had a late fee. Was it that hard for people to avoid late fees? You know when the thing is due back, and they had 24 hour drop slots.
The Blockbusters near me always had the cashiers practically announce to the store what you were reanting. Not that they really had anything embarrassing to rent, but that always just ground my gears.
Hey, I'm not saying it was a great publicity event.
I might have had the web page change to some sterile corporate style pretend some big unamed video gaming company had bought GOG and was and implementing DRM. Then have the GOG guys come back and say it was a joke while they transferred over to the new code base. That would focus the PR on one of their big selling points: no DRM.
"Huff! Puff! Well, *I* won't be buying form them again after *this* treatment! Harumph!" Seriously, people, do you have any idea how you sound? Like a curmudgeonly old fool. Oh, you are SO offended! And you know *someone* out there is thinking of suing because their fragile little selves were damaged.
My reaction was "Oh, shoot, I was going to go and get Syberia next week." and then "Oh, cool, I can still get Syberia." Any reaction more serious that that is a complete failure of your perspective matrix.
As for Syberia, hey, I played the updated Monkey Island and now have an urge to go play some of the point and click puzzlers I missed. Weclome back, GOG.:-)
I get tired of newbie gamers who have not noticed that game quality in many genres is going down or stagnating.
Well, I agree with the OP, and I've been playing since the Magnavox Odyssey in 1975.:-) The only person I ever met who tops me is a guy who played some of the original experiments done on oscilloscopes.
I'm sure most older gamers have noticed how almost EVERY fucking game is a first person shooter. Most gamers probably remember an age where the FPS was one of the genre's and not THE DOMINANT genre of gaming like it is today.
Or some of us older gamers actually *look* are reality and disagree with that assessment. A lot of the big name games are FPS, but behind the big names there's metric shit-tons of other stuff. There's an equal number of third person games. My goodness, man, there's more game types out there than ever before what with downloadable content now. Go play Limbo- awesome little game. Check out the Indie game scene.
How many first person shooters have we had since doom? You'd think after all these years FPS games would be played out...
I'm sorry that a genre you don't like is popular, but that doesn't make it bad. I pick out an FPS to play about once a year, and yet my gaming slate is more than full.
but now they are even turning RPG's into FPS games (oblivion --> Fallout 3), Gears of war --> Mass effect 2.
The Elder Scrolls series were a revelation in RPGs for me. Play on a big HDTV with head phones and you will achieve major immersion.
And GOW and ME are third person. GOW is not an RPG, and ME is an action RPG.
If you hadn't noticed this trend of homogenization of games then you clearly are incapable of seeing what has happened. It only sounds to you like it's "Get off my lawn" but look at final fantasy 12 and 13, the battle systems in those games can't hold a candle to the battle systems of earlier games.
Your opinion is not fact. I thought the FF13 system was piles of fun. I liked the gambit system in FF12 as well- that one actually harkened back to several games in the early days where you would "program" your game characters to follow scripts. Dragon age had that, too. It's a fun thing.
I've watched final fantasy series be butchered by movie/story types who don't like the loot/equipment/battle and stat management aspect of oldschool RPG's, compare a game like FF1/FF6/FF7 to FFX and beyond.
I just played FF1 on the Wii. You call that stat management?
So play some western RPGs. There's endless hours of looting and stat spreadsheet management to be had these days. You just aren't looking or something. Steam alone has lots of isometric, stat heavy RPGs to play. Try Sacred 2 on the XBox. Not perfect, but I'm finding some fun there. Major stat management, piles of loot, open world, etc.
Wow. What wonderful universe did you just slide in from? This one sucks ass *and* balls, dude. Slide back out as soon as you can, because this one is toxic as all hell.
So you really need to buy their security solutions! NOW! Meanwhile, Goodyear tires said to really safe on the road (and to keep your CHILDREN! safe) you should get new tires every 5000 miles, and the Head & Shoulders folks claim washing your hair three times a day will avoid a stinky head. And the government said they taking blood and tissue samples at the airport will protect us from engineer^H^H^H^H^H^H terrorists ever more so.
Engineers! They're the new lawyers! Let the haters hate!
Honestly, I can't think of another profession that gets so needlessly and unjustifiably dragged through the mud. I'm waiting for Mike Rowe to show up to film an episode of Dirty Jobs.
What's with the antisocial crap? I work in a huge engineering house. The vast majority are happily married with families. We have social gatherings outside of work all the time. We have dozens of work hosted clubs, everything from technical interest to exercise, artistic endeavors and investing. I've never seen a happier bunch of people who enjoy their careers and lives.
Engineers never get married. Engineers are all living in isolated shacks. Engineers are all young-Earth creationists. On and on and on from the peanut gallery.
What is with the ever enduring anti-engineering sentiment?
Are we not making enough cool toys and gadgets?
We should just take our transistors and go home. Try updating your little MyFaceSpaceBork profiles or tweeting your next solid morning dump or think you are rocking out with that Justin Beiberboy... (that is a boy, right?) thing without transistors, you wankers.
Smart people are smart enough to get out of jury duty
How, exactly?
Seriously. I always see this claim, but have never heard anything that does not run the risk of perjury charges.
Maybe it's just California. Calling in and saying "I just lost a leg in a car accident" or "I have Ebola" just *might* get you excused here.
I'm always excused by the defense, though. Either because I give my occupation as "satellite communications engineer thinking of pursuing my PhD" or I admit that if the defendant does not take the stand, I vote guilty.
Slashdot Mirror
Get people off their asses watching TV/movies in front of their stupid computers and get them on their asses in the living room watching TV/movies on their stupid HDTV.
He was portrayed that way because it makes a move interesting, but doesn't seem to be the real story.
Then what's the point? Why do a movie about a real person or event, and then make half of it up? Why not just do something original and let a documentary filmmaker take over. Maybe Michael Moore could- oops, no wait... bad example.
I never watch these docudrama films because I know there's loads of crap that never happened. I knew this one would be blown way our of proportion when I saw the "Punk. Prophet. Billionaire." tag line on the billboards. Prophet? WTF? Is he the Messiah, too?
I even predicted to a friend that there would be a line like "Our time is now" or "This is our time" because every movie like this has a line like that. And I was right. Ooo! Now I'm a prophet, too! :-P
It could be geology or biology,
Oh, well, that narrows it down.
In other news, physicists said that before the Big Bang there was either something or nothing. Oh, wait, bad example. :-) Ah, I tease you, physicists! Give us a smile.
That's akin to someone coming out of a cave right now, having waked in when Queen Victoria was on the throne.
I would hope so! Give the woman some privacy!
Why would aliens intrinsiclly meet with humans?
Trees are lousy conversationalists.
And maybe superintelligent aliens have evolved beyond dreary, weepy, emo-goth kid, warmed over nihilism that uses Keanu Reeve movies to make their (for lack of a better term) point.
You have made Sad Keanu even sadder. :-(
I am so gunning for that job starting right now.
Aliens: Greeting, human worm baby.
QD: Hi, I'm the supreme ruler here!
Aliens: Shall we parlay?
QD: No need. You can have the planet in exchange for an FTL star cruiser, the equivalent of ten billion dollars in your currency and a map to all the fun places in the galaxy.
Aliens: Done and done. Does your species serve irrational rulers well?
QD: They whine and moan a lot, but after a while they'll actually vote for you.
Hell, I'd sell you lot out for far, far less, but might as well aim high.
and no real plusses besides that he was well spoken
I cannot understand how that is an automatic plus. How many smooth talking, corrupt assholes do we have to have before people stop getting hypnotized by a silver tongued salsemen? In fact, the moment someone exhibits that ability my bullshit detectors switch into super-enhanced mode.
I, like so many others, had the audacity of hope that Obama was a good man and interested in a better America
Meanwhile, those of us *more* than six years old knew the new boss would always be the same as the old boss.
Hope is not a strategy.
Welcome to Cynicism. It is the only rational philosophy left.
I remember Bruce Springsteen was starting concerts by complaining about Bush and wiretapping (because people go to concerts to hear yet more politics because they just don't get enough of it every single day). I wonder if he will continue to speak out, or is the right lizard in office now?
Not that I liked Blockbuster, but in 10 years I never had a late fee. Was it that hard for people to avoid late fees? You know when the thing is due back, and they had 24 hour drop slots.
The Blockbusters near me always had the cashiers practically announce to the store what you were reanting. Not that they really had anything embarrassing to rent, but that always just ground my gears.
Do you keep the door ajar after use? I've had a front loader for 5 years and no mold or mildew problems.
Hey, I'm not saying it was a great publicity event.
I might have had the web page change to some sterile corporate style pretend some big unamed video gaming company had bought GOG and was and implementing DRM. Then have the GOG guys come back and say it was a joke while they transferred over to the new code base. That would focus the PR on one of their big selling points: no DRM.
...is the negative reactions now.
"Huff! Puff! Well, *I* won't be buying form them again after *this* treatment! Harumph!" Seriously, people, do you have any idea how you sound? Like a curmudgeonly old fool. Oh, you are SO offended! And you know *someone* out there is thinking of suing because their fragile little selves were damaged.
My reaction was "Oh, shoot, I was going to go and get Syberia next week." and then "Oh, cool, I can still get Syberia." Any reaction more serious that that is a complete failure of your perspective matrix.
As for Syberia, hey, I played the updated Monkey Island and now have an urge to go play some of the point and click puzzlers I missed. Weclome back, GOG. :-)
I get tired of newbie gamers who have not noticed that game quality in many genres is going down or stagnating.
Well, I agree with the OP, and I've been playing since the Magnavox Odyssey in 1975. :-) The only person I ever met who tops me is a guy who played some of the original experiments done on oscilloscopes.
I'm sure most older gamers have noticed how almost EVERY fucking game is a first person shooter. Most gamers probably remember an age where the FPS was one of the genre's and not THE DOMINANT genre of gaming like it is today.
Or some of us older gamers actually *look* are reality and disagree with that assessment. A lot of the big name games are FPS, but behind the big names there's metric shit-tons of other stuff. There's an equal number of third person games. My goodness, man, there's more game types out there than ever before what with downloadable content now. Go play Limbo- awesome little game. Check out the Indie game scene.
How many first person shooters have we had since doom? You'd think after all these years FPS games would be played out...
I'm sorry that a genre you don't like is popular, but that doesn't make it bad. I pick out an FPS to play about once a year, and yet my gaming slate is more than full.
but now they are even turning RPG's into FPS games (oblivion --> Fallout 3), Gears of war --> Mass effect 2.
The Elder Scrolls series were a revelation in RPGs for me. Play on a big HDTV with head phones and you will achieve major immersion.
And GOW and ME are third person. GOW is not an RPG, and ME is an action RPG.
If you hadn't noticed this trend of homogenization of games then you clearly are incapable of seeing what has happened. It only sounds to you like it's "Get off my lawn" but look at final fantasy 12 and 13, the battle systems in those games can't hold a candle to the battle systems of earlier games.
Your opinion is not fact. I thought the FF13 system was piles of fun. I liked the gambit system in FF12 as well- that one actually harkened back to several games in the early days where you would "program" your game characters to follow scripts. Dragon age had that, too. It's a fun thing.
I've watched final fantasy series be butchered by movie/story types who don't like the loot/equipment/battle and stat management aspect of oldschool RPG's, compare a game like FF1/FF6/FF7 to FFX and beyond.
I just played FF1 on the Wii. You call that stat management?
So play some western RPGs. There's endless hours of looting and stat spreadsheet management to be had these days. You just aren't looking or something. Steam alone has lots of isometric, stat heavy RPGs to play. Try Sacred 2 on the XBox. Not perfect, but I'm finding some fun there. Major stat management, piles of loot, open world, etc.
Wow. What wonderful universe did you just slide in from? This one sucks ass *and* balls, dude. Slide back out as soon as you can, because this one is toxic as all hell.
said Jeremiah Grossman of security firm WhiteHat.
So you really need to buy their security solutions! NOW! Meanwhile, Goodyear tires said to really safe on the road (and to keep your CHILDREN! safe) you should get new tires every 5000 miles, and the Head & Shoulders folks claim washing your hair three times a day will avoid a stinky head. And the government said they taking blood and tissue samples at the airport will protect us from engineer^H^H^H^H^H^H terrorists ever more so.
I'm afraid the engineers have already won.
Engineers! They're the new lawyers! Let the haters hate!
Honestly, I can't think of another profession that gets so needlessly and unjustifiably dragged through the mud.
I'm waiting for Mike Rowe to show up to film an episode of Dirty Jobs.
What's with the antisocial crap? I work in a huge engineering house. The vast majority are happily married with families. We have social gatherings outside of work all the time. We have dozens of work hosted clubs, everything from technical interest to exercise, artistic endeavors and investing. I've never seen a happier bunch of people who enjoy their careers and lives.
Both grossly oversimplify...
So are you the engineer or terrorist?
Seriously, it's like one of them killed your parents *and* your dog with the level of bigotry you exhibit.
And you're pretty mean to engineers, too.
(rimshot)
Hey-yo! Thank you very much! Good night!
Engineers never get married. Engineers are all living in isolated shacks. Engineers are all young-Earth creationists. On and on and on from the peanut gallery.
What is with the ever enduring anti-engineering sentiment?
Are we not making enough cool toys and gadgets?
We should just take our transistors and go home. Try updating your little MyFaceSpaceBork profiles or tweeting your next solid morning dump or think you are rocking out with that Justin Beiberboy... (that is a boy, right?) thing without transistors, you wankers.
Feh... you people sometimes...
I stopped reading the summary when I got to the part about Zero Point Energy. Do a google search on "Zero Point Energy" and you will understand why.
Zero point energy is the ground state of a quantum mechanical system.
It's been used and abused by the sci-fi world, but it's a real scientific concept.
Smart people are smart enough to get out of jury duty
How, exactly?
Seriously. I always see this claim, but have never heard anything that does not run the risk of perjury charges.
Maybe it's just California. Calling in and saying "I just lost a leg in a car accident" or "I have Ebola" just *might* get you excused here.
I'm always excused by the defense, though. Either because I give my occupation as "satellite communications engineer thinking of pursuing my PhD" or I admit that if the defendant does not take the stand, I vote guilty.
Near?! They've come and gone!
Apology? On Slashdot? (head explodes)