New Vegas's problem isn't combat, it's glitches. And not just any glitches, but the game-killing kind. I lost 5 hours of gameplay just the other night because I went into Vault 3 on the Brotherhood of Steel mission without realizing that this is game-save suicide.
You sir, are either joking or a crack-head (I'm willing to entertain "meth-head" as well). Content is the one thing Bethesda does RIGHT. Not only do they do it right, but they do it better than pretty much anyone else. If you can name a single game that has a larger world, with more varied content, than either Oblivion or Fallout 3, then you go right ahead. I guess maybe you could say Fallout: New Vegas, but that's cheating now isn't it? Bethesda spends tens of millions of $ and years of development for each game just on pure content.
Very few development companies (maybe Bioware) are even in the same league as Bethesda when it comes to content. If you think you (or you and any ten other software companies combined) can top them in that arena, you go right ahead, buddy.
If I wanted to play with the inferior mouse+keyboard I would probably, I don't know, BUY A PC AND NOT A CONSOLE. I prefer a controller that was actually designed for games, thank you very much. I'm so sick of hearing PC snobs talk about the keyboard/mouse as if it's somehow the perfect controller. The fact is that they're just used to it (and used to playing games whose control scheme was designed for it). In every way, the modern game controller is superior (and it should be, as gaming is what it was DESIGNED for).
What other phone can boast of having a full audio archive of every single phone call you ever make, courtesy of the NSA? Carrying one of these puppies comes with the cool prestige of being able to hit on the classy girl at the bar with James Bond lines like "Either I *am* a spy, or I'm getting spied *on*--that's for you to decide, my darling."
It would seem logical that the first person to deliver a decent modern MMO on a console would become an instant goddamn bajillionaire. And yet, here we are five years later without one. MS seems actively hostile to the idea. Sony keeps promising but never delivering. Every time someone promises an MMO on a console, it gets delayed, delayed, delayed, and finally cancelled (DC Universe Online, I'm looking in your direction).
Sure. Could just be that he spent 39 years not being a rapist only to begin his rapist career a couple of weeks after releasing a huge stash of classified materials that embarrassed the most powerful government in the world.
Of course, Liu Xiaobo could have spent 54 years not being caught for molesting children, only to have his victims finally come forward around the same time he is to accept the Nobel Prize. No need for any conspiracy theories here. Maybe we should consider that he really *is* a child molester, and the timing is just coincidental.
Stop being so heavy-handed and obvious. Take a page from the CIA playbook. If you *really* want to discredit Liu Xiaobo, just recruit a couple of women to say he raped them (or some kids to say he molested them, or an old lady to say he beat her, something along those lines). Easy, subtle, and no need to censor CNN. And what's really great is that it works even if he's in another country (if you can recruit locals there, even better!). Pretty soon the Nobel people are backing away from him, Visa won't process donations for his cause, everybody is calling him a rapist/child-molester/wife-beater. And you get to say "Hey, wasn't us, that's his own personal problems" if anyone asks. Now no one will touch him and you didn't have to *directly* come down on anyone.
Just make sure your recruits look credible and pay them/threaten them enough to make sure they never talk.
then tell everyone that the 'myth' is busted. No debate about it.
You obviously don't watch the show very regularly. They FREQUENTLY revisit myths they had previously "busted," and have proven remarkably open to criticism of their tests. This is, after all, the third time they've revisited this particular myth. The first time, they busted it. But when students at MIT complained that they didn't do it right, they not only agreed to revisit it, but also flew said students out to San Fransisco to test it in person.
They've even been known to reverse themselves on numerous occasions (though not on this particular myth).
The implication in the Constitution is that you must be physically born in the U.S. The irony of that, however, is that this is a problem for John McCain *WAY* more than for Obama. McCain was born in Panama (no controversy about it). It's only by the somewhat dubious argument that "Well, *technically* a military base is considered U.S. soil" that he got around that issue to argue he was born in the U.S. I'm not so sure Panama (or any other country where we have bases) would be so quick to agree.
The fact that they're down to bitching about the moisture content of the test boat only shows how impractical this would be in real-world conditions. Complaining that their test conditions were less than ideal is part of the problem with the myth. No military leader in his right mind is going to work with a "weapon" that only works at a certain time of day, on a boat with a certain moisture content, moving slower than X speed, etc.--especially when there are far-superior alternatives available (like flaming arrows, etc.).
Those MIT students sound like sore losers. And like all sore losers, they're full of plenty of excuses. They had their chance and they couldn't deliver.
That was one of the problems the MIT students had. When they tried it with actual polished copper, in real world conditions, their "proof" of this myth feel apart.
They were specifically testing the MOVIE myth version of that one (from Lethal Weapon 2) and were attempting only to recreate it exactly as it was shown in that specific movie.
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New Vegas's problem isn't combat, it's glitches. And not just any glitches, but the game-killing kind. I lost 5 hours of gameplay just the other night because I went into Vault 3 on the Brotherhood of Steel mission without realizing that this is game-save suicide.
You sir, are either joking or a crack-head (I'm willing to entertain "meth-head" as well). Content is the one thing Bethesda does RIGHT. Not only do they do it right, but they do it better than pretty much anyone else. If you can name a single game that has a larger world, with more varied content, than either Oblivion or Fallout 3, then you go right ahead. I guess maybe you could say Fallout: New Vegas, but that's cheating now isn't it? Bethesda spends tens of millions of $ and years of development for each game just on pure content.
Very few development companies (maybe Bioware) are even in the same league as Bethesda when it comes to content. If you think you (or you and any ten other software companies combined) can top them in that arena, you go right ahead, buddy.
If I wanted to play with the inferior mouse+keyboard I would probably, I don't know, BUY A PC AND NOT A CONSOLE. I prefer a controller that was actually designed for games, thank you very much. I'm so sick of hearing PC snobs talk about the keyboard/mouse as if it's somehow the perfect controller. The fact is that they're just used to it (and used to playing games whose control scheme was designed for it). In every way, the modern game controller is superior (and it should be, as gaming is what it was DESIGNED for).
Don't worry, the glitches where you end up standing 10 ft in the air balance it out.
Methinks this might hurt their ability to recruit informants in the future as well.
What other phone can boast of having a full audio archive of every single phone call you ever make, courtesy of the NSA? Carrying one of these puppies comes with the cool prestige of being able to hit on the classy girl at the bar with James Bond lines like "Either I *am* a spy, or I'm getting spied *on*--that's for you to decide, my darling."
Please, someone tell me this won't threaten the band Iron Maiden. I really need those guys.
No, but already delayed once. We'll see.
It would seem logical that the first person to deliver a decent modern MMO on a console would become an instant goddamn bajillionaire. And yet, here we are five years later without one. MS seems actively hostile to the idea. Sony keeps promising but never delivering. Every time someone promises an MMO on a console, it gets delayed, delayed, delayed, and finally cancelled (DC Universe Online, I'm looking in your direction).
Last one died last year. I suspect the bug got to her.
See China, that's exactly what people will say when he denies molesting those kids.
Paying attention?
Wasn't us, that's his own personal problems.
Sure. Could just be that he spent 39 years not being a rapist only to begin his rapist career a couple of weeks after releasing a huge stash of classified materials that embarrassed the most powerful government in the world.
Of course, Liu Xiaobo could have spent 54 years not being caught for molesting children, only to have his victims finally come forward around the same time he is to accept the Nobel Prize. No need for any conspiracy theories here. Maybe we should consider that he really *is* a child molester, and the timing is just coincidental.
Stop being so heavy-handed and obvious. Take a page from the CIA playbook. If you *really* want to discredit Liu Xiaobo, just recruit a couple of women to say he raped them (or some kids to say he molested them, or an old lady to say he beat her, something along those lines). Easy, subtle, and no need to censor CNN. And what's really great is that it works even if he's in another country (if you can recruit locals there, even better!). Pretty soon the Nobel people are backing away from him, Visa won't process donations for his cause, everybody is calling him a rapist/child-molester/wife-beater. And you get to say "Hey, wasn't us, that's his own personal problems" if anyone asks. Now no one will touch him and you didn't have to *directly* come down on anyone.
Just make sure your recruits look credible and pay them/threaten them enough to make sure they never talk.
They used period tar pitch in the first test.
Von Braun--he aimed for the stars, but hit London.
Come on, you don't think Grant is crazy sexy?
You obviously don't watch the show very regularly. They FREQUENTLY revisit myths they had previously "busted," and have proven remarkably open to criticism of their tests. This is, after all, the third time they've revisited this particular myth. The first time, they busted it. But when students at MIT complained that they didn't do it right, they not only agreed to revisit it, but also flew said students out to San Fransisco to test it in person.
They've even been known to reverse themselves on numerous occasions (though not on this particular myth).
Yeah, but if there's a spill it could turn Scotland into a bleak shithole.
One of the parameters they established was that it had to be practical.
The implication in the Constitution is that you must be physically born in the U.S. The irony of that, however, is that this is a problem for John McCain *WAY* more than for Obama. McCain was born in Panama (no controversy about it). It's only by the somewhat dubious argument that "Well, *technically* a military base is considered U.S. soil" that he got around that issue to argue he was born in the U.S. I'm not so sure Panama (or any other country where we have bases) would be so quick to agree.
The fact that they're down to bitching about the moisture content of the test boat only shows how impractical this would be in real-world conditions. Complaining that their test conditions were less than ideal is part of the problem with the myth. No military leader in his right mind is going to work with a "weapon" that only works at a certain time of day, on a boat with a certain moisture content, moving slower than X speed, etc.--especially when there are far-superior alternatives available (like flaming arrows, etc.).
Those MIT students sound like sore losers. And like all sore losers, they're full of plenty of excuses. They had their chance and they couldn't deliver.
That was one of the problems the MIT students had. When they tried it with actual polished copper, in real world conditions, their "proof" of this myth feel apart.
They were specifically testing the MOVIE myth version of that one (from Lethal Weapon 2) and were attempting only to recreate it exactly as it was shown in that specific movie.
Was your mirror made of crude polished copper, a couple of hundred feet away, aimed at a moving ship on the water?