Man, I remember lots of discussion of this back around the 1970s and 1980s - but the bizarre thing is that some people - like say people who find cartoons about their favorite cat being mocked and want to set everything on fire - have nothing better to do and are so insecure about their own gender preferences.
I always subscribed to the "less competition for me for the babes" crowd.
two miles to the west of where it really is, where the cement mixing plant is located.
I can see it now, people driving their car, holding their cell phone in the left hand up to their ear, taking a movie of the drive while talking, while the right hand navigates the Google Earth zoom on the GPS-sync out of date Google Earth pics and... SCREECH BANG CRASH... time to get another user.
I'm not really joking - I saw someone driving a Ford truck on the two-lane (one each way) arterial near my house in Fremont on Saturday, and he took both hands off the wheel while accelerating into a blind five-way intersection, elbows nowhere near the wheel, trusting that even though he has to curve to the right, noone will do something unexpected as he tailgated the car in front.
Time for a new Darwin Awards category:
Driving under the influence of electronic gadgets.
I wish it were coming out for the DS, but sadly, it will be on the PSP. Just imagine repopulating the cosmos with the touchscreen!
Oh, darn. No prob, at least there's Nintendogs for the DS.
Now, isn't that kind of a subversive game? I mean, it records where you pee... and we all know The Man wears expensive shoes and probably doesn't appreciate dog poo...
So, from my comment, you can see I haven't yet experienced Tomonobu Itagaki's creation Ninja Gaiden - although a lot of friends seem to love that. Fumito Ueda's Shadow of the Colussus looks really cool and not Just Another Game, keep meaning to check it out. Shigeru Miyamoto's Pikmin really rocks, but I've not been as enthralled by his Legend of Zelda - my son is though. Hironobu Sakaguchi's Final Fantasy is legend of course, and I've only heard good things about his Blue Dragon for the xBox360 (but am going to give the xBox360 a pass, as I didn't really like the platform, and mostly bought cross-platform games like Sims2 and Lego Star Wars for it (ok, so I got Fable and Fable Lost Chapters...)).
Don't really know any of the titles of Yu Suzuki, though.
Well, one of the sad things is that many really cool Japanese video games have never been translated for the US/UK/etc market, including many martial arts, bizarre graphics/music games, and samurai/bushido games.
At least there's Dance Dance Revolution and a few other ones like Pokemon to give us a glimmer of a land where FPS is not that big of a segment in gaming.
Any chance that the other game is Castlevania, Suikoden, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill (PLEASE let it be this one), or even something along the lines of Shadow of Destiny or Lost in Blue?
It was something the Japanese seem gaga over but I didn't recognize. Is that what Lost in Blue is? Can't remember, sorry. They have links to their latest annual reports (video) at www.konami.com and follow the investors link I think.
Oh, and playing many Japanese games with the sound off is a very bad idea. That's half the fun!
thanks, I got the two mixed. Canberra ACT. Visited Sydney (Blue Mountains), Gold Coast, Canberra ACT, Melbourne Victoria, and Alice Springs.
It's been since the WorldCon there in the 1980's since I was there.
Still, uses of player-made content for games (admittedly play-by-mail computer-assisted games) has been going on since at least that time. My examples are just the ones I know of.
It was something the Japanese seem gaga over but I didn't recognize. Is that what Lost in Blue is? Can't remember, sorry. They have links to their latest annual reports (video) at www.konami.com and follow the investors link I think.
you're correct regarding all gains from passive solar & riding a bike's better too.
or walking - which is what I do, most days. unless it rains a lot or I'm late.
bio-diesel's only a marginal idea IMHO: loads of particulate pollution, and modern western farming consumes massive amounts of petrochemicals. It's a good way to consume otherwise 'waste' oil, but I don't think it scales cleanly.
Denmark get's most of it's energy from biodiesel - using different/better crops. Think that's what Bush was going on about, even if he is a fool.
plug-in hybrids would be ideal: charge overnight with lower cost electrons yet have hybrid to get range and avoid slow charge problems.
Yes. I think many hybrids are or will have a plug-in adaptation available, for those who live in areas where:
a. electricity is cheaper than gasoline (e.g. Pacific NW, most of world); b. lots of cheap solar or hydro or wind that can fill up when not at peak use; c. interruptable charging - some firms get cheaper interruptible electricity in bulk and can use it for car-charging too; d. they have really really long extension cords connected to massively parallel hamster cages at HamsterWorld.
But, do you park your car at home? Most people park at work.
The best thing to do, IMHO, is to:
1. get a plug-able biodiesel hybrid car. (most hybrids don't plug in) 2. drive to the nearest park and ride or carpool to work. 3. plug in your biodiesel hybrid car at the park and ride or work carpool lot - either to wind-power or solar-power or hydro-power. 4. PROFIT!
Nothing wrong with having solar in your house, but it's best used there if you're: a. retired; b. working at home; c. taking the biodiesel bus or hydro-powered SkyTrain to worl; or d. using it to heat the hot water heater or provide passive solar stored for evening heat.
[ok, so I was one of the first 100 Solar Energy Society of Canada members...]
. remember the alternative sun being created by (or attempted by) the Chinese? But, solar and wind energy (unlike say Hydrogen) are so region specific, that they impose problems for wide-spread acceptability. And there arent any means found to store them successfully.
Sure there is, gravity-pumped water storage. During sunny or windy periods, any unused draw is used to pump up water to a higher elevation, which can then be used for water usage (got to get the water in those towers somehow) or for power generation (how do you think hydroelectric dams work). Many nations like India and Denmark use this to store wind energy - they pump up the water and then use it.
Here, we get about 70-80 percent of the electricity from a solar cell on a grey and cloudy day - yeah, it rains a lot here - but many people have hybrid cars. Way more than most other places.
So, while the hybrid car is sitting in the carpool lot, a rooftop solar panel can charge up the battery - or maybe carpool lots could provide these as plug-ins - while your car is washed clean by the soothing misty rains that drive you insane. Saves on gas cost - especially with the new plug-or-pump electric hybrids that let you plug in if you want to or just use gasoline/biodiesel.
Or you can use cheap hydro or wind power (3/4 of our energy supply) to plug in and do the same thing.
It's not like your car was doing anything - it might as well charge up while it's taking up valuable real estate.
would be a certain Japanese game where you roll over The Man - and pigs, cows, cars, buildings, towers, airplanes - to get enough to put Stars in the sky for your father the King of the Universe.
Katari Damashi is the name, I think. There's two other sequels to it.
Well, 255 are FPS clones that all are pretty much the same, 49 are game ports that are only there to use HDTV graphics, and 50 are sports games that are pretty boring, which leaves you with about 6 that are worth even looking at...
I remember when I was one of the players in an Australian game system run on one of their mainframes in Melbourne A.C.T., called Galaxy and it's sequel Galaxy II.
At the time I lived in Canada and had a double-hyphenated last name - me and some Kiwis from New Zealand spent a lot of time creating civilizations, species, and bizarre things (like my Ford Corporation, run by Ford Prefect, which sold high-tech (level 15) robot-assisted spaceships, orbital spaceports, and plug-in robotic pilots/gunners/navigators/etc - which happened to have a minor malfunction where they wouldn't shoot my player civilization in a large-scale battle - naturally, the attacking player would rip them out and go manual, but in the ten minutes it took to fully remove them, my side usually won with it's high-G kamikaze neutron bomb ships that crashed into the enemies large ships and made them suitable only for scrap...).
I think Will's right about this, and when I ran my play-by-mail RPG (yes, by postal mail, 110 players) much of the time was spent by players doing the same thing and then other players piggybacking off of them.
a church ritual used in the middle ages (which, to be fair, is what WoW is basically a variation of) for two individuals of the same gender.
Me, I just play the Sims 2 - even the console versions have no problem with same-gender marriages - in fact, got a new xBox version of Sims 2 last night and ran thru with a female character who got married to her female roommate. Since she was a Romance aspiration sim and her roommate is one too, it works for them.
Quick, let's outlaw same-gender relationships for animals! Like they care... it happens regardless of people trying to pretend it doesn't.
FYI, I'm straight and can't recall ever playing and same gender male relationships in RPG sims, although one time I ran a female character in a game and it's interesting how many guys fall in love with you when you're not even being friendly... would get love letters and stuff like that.
Because the first law of electronics pricing is you can buy a chip twice as powerful in one year at one-tenth the price.
The only reason to buy now would be if you have no other realistic solution.
It's like HDTV - sure, you can spend $10,000 on a top of the line HDTV now - or you can wait until 2009 when everyone has one and pay $500 for a better model that offers the exact same features and has fixed all the bugs.
Just think of all the cloning kits you could buy with that $9,500...
of course, that will require to port oh so many other things as well...
After all, linux geeks need to burn cycles somehow, and why not do it by simulating a LAN party at a geek frat house filled with vampires while death makes zombies in the back yard?
hmm, guess that means they should port Sims 2: University and Sims 2: Nightlife while they're at it.
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since back in the 80s.
It's time to wake up and smell the new century.
Man, I remember lots of discussion of this back around the 1970s and 1980s - but the bizarre thing is that some people - like say people who find cartoons about their favorite cat being mocked and want to set everything on fire - have nothing better to do and are so insecure about their own gender preferences.
I always subscribed to the "less competition for me for the babes" crowd.
That'd be great if VW made a flying car.
Well, they do make one designed for biodiesel. Maybe if you ran a still, you might get your VW to fly - or at least it might feel like it's flying.
two miles to the west of where it really is, where the cement mixing plant is located.
... SCREECH BANG CRASH ... time to get another user.
I can see it now, people driving their car, holding their cell phone in the left hand up to their ear, taking a movie of the drive while talking, while the right hand navigates the Google Earth zoom on the GPS-sync out of date Google Earth pics and
I'm not really joking - I saw someone driving a Ford truck on the two-lane (one each way) arterial near my house in Fremont on Saturday, and he took both hands off the wheel while accelerating into a blind five-way intersection, elbows nowhere near the wheel, trusting that even though he has to curve to the right, noone will do something unexpected as he tailgated the car in front.
Time for a new Darwin Awards category:
Driving under the influence of electronic gadgets.
don't forget to bring your GPS device and cellphone.
It can get kind of busy with 50,000 players all trying to run up a hill randomly selected around the world.
Plus, make sure your credit cards have enough left on them to buy a round trip ticket.
I wish it were coming out for the DS, but sadly, it will be on the PSP. Just imagine repopulating the cosmos with the touchscreen!
... and we all know The Man wears expensive shoes and probably doesn't appreciate dog poo ...
Oh, darn. No prob, at least there's Nintendogs for the DS.
Now, isn't that kind of a subversive game? I mean, it records where you pee
So, from my comment, you can see I haven't yet experienced Tomonobu Itagaki's creation Ninja Gaiden - although a lot of friends seem to love that. Fumito Ueda's Shadow of the Colussus looks really cool and not Just Another Game, keep meaning to check it out. Shigeru Miyamoto's Pikmin really rocks, but I've not been as enthralled by his Legend of Zelda - my son is though. Hironobu Sakaguchi's Final Fantasy is legend of course, and I've only heard good things about his Blue Dragon for the xBox360 (but am going to give the xBox360 a pass, as I didn't really like the platform, and mostly bought cross-platform games like Sims2 and Lego Star Wars for it (ok, so I got Fable and Fable Lost Chapters ...)).
Don't really know any of the titles of Yu Suzuki, though.
Well, one of the sad things is that many really cool Japanese video games have never been translated for the US/UK/etc market, including many martial arts, bizarre graphics/music games, and samurai/bushido games.
At least there's Dance Dance Revolution and a few other ones like Pokemon to give us a glimmer of a land where FPS is not that big of a segment in gaming.
Any chance that the other game is Castlevania, Suikoden, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill (PLEASE let it be this one), or even something along the lines of Shadow of Destiny or Lost in Blue?
It was something the Japanese seem gaga over but I didn't recognize. Is that what Lost in Blue is? Can't remember, sorry. They have links to their latest annual reports (video) at www.konami.com and follow the investors link I think.
Oh, and playing many Japanese games with the sound off is a very bad idea. That's half the fun!
thanks, I got the two mixed. Canberra ACT. Visited Sydney (Blue Mountains), Gold Coast, Canberra ACT, Melbourne Victoria, and Alice Springs.
It's been since the WorldCon there in the 1980's since I was there.
Still, uses of player-made content for games (admittedly play-by-mail computer-assisted games) has been going on since at least that time. My examples are just the ones I know of.
It was something the Japanese seem gaga over but I didn't recognize. Is that what Lost in Blue is? Can't remember, sorry. They have links to their latest annual reports (video) at www.konami.com and follow the investors link I think.
you're correct regarding all gains from passive solar & riding a bike's better too.
or walking - which is what I do, most days. unless it rains a lot or I'm late.
bio-diesel's only a marginal idea IMHO: loads of particulate pollution, and modern western farming consumes massive amounts of petrochemicals. It's a good way to consume otherwise 'waste' oil, but I don't think it scales cleanly.
Denmark get's most of it's energy from biodiesel - using different/better crops. Think that's what Bush was going on about, even if he is a fool.
plug-in hybrids would be ideal: charge overnight with lower cost electrons yet have hybrid to get range and avoid slow charge problems.
Yes. I think many hybrids are or will have a plug-in adaptation available, for those who live in areas where:
a. electricity is cheaper than gasoline (e.g. Pacific NW, most of world);
b. lots of cheap solar or hydro or wind that can fill up when not at peak use;
c. interruptable charging - some firms get cheaper interruptible electricity in bulk and can use it for car-charging too;
d. they have really really long extension cords connected to massively parallel hamster cages at HamsterWorld.
But, do you park your car at home? Most people park at work.
...]
The best thing to do, IMHO, is to:
1. get a plug-able biodiesel hybrid car. (most hybrids don't plug in)
2. drive to the nearest park and ride or carpool to work.
3. plug in your biodiesel hybrid car at the park and ride or work carpool lot - either to wind-power or solar-power or hydro-power.
4. PROFIT!
Nothing wrong with having solar in your house, but it's best used there if you're:
a. retired;
b. working at home;
c. taking the biodiesel bus or hydro-powered SkyTrain to worl; or
d. using it to heat the hot water heater or provide passive solar stored for evening heat.
[ok, so I was one of the first 100 Solar Energy Society of Canada members
well, there is another one for the Nintendo DS
This should help a lot.
. remember the alternative sun being created by (or attempted by) the Chinese? But, solar and wind energy (unlike say Hydrogen) are so region specific, that they impose problems for wide-spread acceptability. And there arent any means found to store them successfully.
Sure there is, gravity-pumped water storage. During sunny or windy periods, any unused draw is used to pump up water to a higher elevation, which can then be used for water usage (got to get the water in those towers somehow) or for power generation (how do you think hydroelectric dams work). Many nations like India and Denmark use this to store wind energy - they pump up the water and then use it.
Here, we get about 70-80 percent of the electricity from a solar cell on a grey and cloudy day - yeah, it rains a lot here - but many people have hybrid cars. Way more than most other places.
So, while the hybrid car is sitting in the carpool lot, a rooftop solar panel can charge up the battery - or maybe carpool lots could provide these as plug-ins - while your car is washed clean by the soothing misty rains that drive you insane. Saves on gas cost - especially with the new plug-or-pump electric hybrids that let you plug in if you want to or just use gasoline/biodiesel.
Or you can use cheap hydro or wind power (3/4 of our energy supply) to plug in and do the same thing.
It's not like your car was doing anything - it might as well charge up while it's taking up valuable real estate.
Can I buy a t-shirt for that game?
Please, give us a weblink!
would be a certain Japanese game where you roll over The Man - and pigs, cows, cars, buildings, towers, airplanes - to get enough to put Stars in the sky for your father the King of the Universe.
Katari Damashi is the name, I think. There's two other sequels to it.
Well, 255 are FPS clones that all are pretty much the same, 49 are game ports that are only there to use HDTV graphics, and 50 are sports games that are pretty boring, which leaves you with about 6 that are worth even looking at ...
because Konami, a Japanese game company I hold shares in, is producing them.
Think one is a soccer game, another one is a dance game, and can't remember what the other one is off hand.
I remember when I was one of the players in an Australian game system run on one of their mainframes in Melbourne A.C.T., called Galaxy and it's sequel Galaxy II.
...).
At the time I lived in Canada and had a double-hyphenated last name - me and some Kiwis from New Zealand spent a lot of time creating civilizations, species, and bizarre things (like my Ford Corporation, run by Ford Prefect, which sold high-tech (level 15) robot-assisted spaceships, orbital spaceports, and plug-in robotic pilots/gunners/navigators/etc - which happened to have a minor malfunction where they wouldn't shoot my player civilization in a large-scale battle - naturally, the attacking player would rip them out and go manual, but in the ten minutes it took to fully remove them, my side usually won with it's high-G kamikaze neutron bomb ships that crashed into the enemies large ships and made them suitable only for scrap
I think Will's right about this, and when I ran my play-by-mail RPG (yes, by postal mail, 110 players) much of the time was spent by players doing the same thing and then other players piggybacking off of them.
a church ritual used in the middle ages (which, to be fair, is what WoW is basically a variation of) for two individuals of the same gender.
... it happens regardless of people trying to pretend it doesn't.
... would get love letters and stuff like that.
Me, I just play the Sims 2 - even the console versions have no problem with same-gender marriages - in fact, got a new xBox version of Sims 2 last night and ran thru with a female character who got married to her female roommate. Since she was a Romance aspiration sim and her roommate is one too, it works for them.
Quick, let's outlaw same-gender relationships for animals! Like they care
FYI, I'm straight and can't recall ever playing and same gender male relationships in RPG sims, although one time I ran a female character in a game and it's interesting how many guys fall in love with you when you're not even being friendly
Because the first law of electronics pricing is you can buy a chip twice as powerful in one year at one-tenth the price.
...
The only reason to buy now would be if you have no other realistic solution.
It's like HDTV - sure, you can spend $10,000 on a top of the line HDTV now - or you can wait until 2009 when everyone has one and pay $500 for a better model that offers the exact same features and has fixed all the bugs.
Just think of all the cloning kits you could buy with that $9,500
I'll miss the days of knowing my IP address off the top of my head.
You only have one?
of course, that will require to port oh so many other things as well ...
After all, linux geeks need to burn cycles somehow, and why not do it by simulating a LAN party at a geek frat house filled with vampires while death makes zombies in the back yard?
hmm, guess that means they should port Sims 2: University and Sims 2: Nightlife while they're at it.