Balooney. Whereas my friend went through 2 PSXs (he now plays them on an emulator or his PS2), I still got my N64. Similarly, I still have my Gamecube while he's on his second PS2.
I do wish the controllers would last longer though. I've had to buy 3 replacements for my GC and all of my N64 controllers should be replaced. Most of them it's the control stick that gets worn down and very loose.
As for the NES, that was trouble with the lockout chip or something and, no, you're not suppose to blow in it. Not that ever stopped me or anyone.
I know this is offtopic, but, damn, Doctor Ow is an awesome name. If only you could have punctuation as part of your legal name, too, because that really calls for an exclamation point.
I had respect for McCain once but ugh, who would be the VP? I've heard *gag* Rice is an option.
Seriously, it's all the same fucking people from both parties that are just get reguritated over and over and over again and it's just doing just a wonderful job at dissauding anyone from trying any meaningful protest.
But hey, on the bright side, our neightboring town is getting a new monolithic Miniluv.
The way I see it, when I was a youngin', before I started reading beyond the comics in the newspaper, and back when we had Slick Willy in office, I had no idea what a fucking shit hole this world can be.
Now that I've grown up, am forced to work for a living, and a regular reader of the Op/Ed section, I see what terrible things my fellow humans can think and do. And nevermind what horrible shit has happened in the past; not the far-far past but 20 years ago, 30, and 40.
And do you know how scary it is to play Deus Ex or read 1984. Woo hoo. Let's get drunk and forget about tomorrow.:(
Wow you're such a tool. Disagreeing with the President = supporting terrorism? Bush working hard (despite the sheer amount of vacations he goes on)? War on Liberals? Six years of progress?
Dude or dudette, you need to get your head out of your ass and stop watching Fox News.
And~ the Turok controls sucked. It's mostly due to the control stick returning to the center so you could never look at something and just STARE. GoldenEye's controls worked because you didn't have many enemies shooting at you from above or below your position; they were almost always on the same plane as you were.
And please, he might have been ignoring "actual n64 games" but bad ones don't count. South Park? Bleh. Turok 3? Rage Wars? What else was there? Mission Impossible?
Maybe not but they (developers) simplified controls to play better. Using a keyboard isn't real. Using two mice (one for your head, the other for your gun) and foot pads to control movement would be even more real.
Besides, realism doesn't mean fun. Red Orchestra sounds awesome but I could never enjoy it. But GoldenEye (or the UT2004 mod replicating it) is loads of fun despite not being very realistic.
Any recall would be useless - if someone has one of these players and wants to keep it they'll just say it broke and they binned it.
I'd just LOVE to read in the paper about people being tracked down through their purchases of these players and forced, with/without compensation, to hand them over. American's determined to hold onto their guns is becoming smaller but damn you if you try to steal some urbanite's DVD player. Of course, it'd get played down or barely mention and what kind of American actually reads the paper or the news these days?
See, that's the funny thing. They won't hand out the cards like candy because that would negate the whole "security/safety" thing. So, you lose your card and some gets it and, using fake driver license and birth certificate, they get one in YOUR name.
Wow, you just got fucked with no legal way to get your name back. Have a good life!
But wait, how about DNA? Well, it's the same damn thing except for those just born and intergrated into the system. Everyone else would have to line up with whatever ID they got, HOWEVER they got them, to submit a bit of blood and TALLY HO you're in the system. Unless, of course, someone beat you to the punch and got their DNA on YOUR name.
And well, nevermind what havok potential screwups would do to people's lives or what someone working for the system could do with malicous intent.
The whole point is that the more permanent ID (and so secure ID) you get, the greater chance to get royally fucked over.
Say you got the specs to run Halo 2 and Vista but you don't want to spend what, $200-300 to play the game? It's an artifical limit to try and force gamers to upgrade.
They MIGHT use it for something else too, but at a price tag comparable to any other decent alternative, what's the harm ?
The only harm I can see is that it drives up the cost to make the system. Sure they might sell a lot but if it's at a loss, well, I doubt they could pull an Xbox as well as Microsoft did. Down what, $2-4 billion AND THEY CAME BACK FOR MORE.
And remember, Nintendo gets away with selling consoles for profit so it's not all unheard of.
I don't really care what someone believes in but when they insist I believe in THEIR god and are willing to kill me if I don't, well gee, they kind of forced the issue, huh?
Well, it really depends on the game type. I CAN play FPS with dual analogue sticks but I'd prefer a mouse and keyboard. Just the same, I CAN play platformer with a keyboard but it's still like trying to run after getting kicked in the nuts.
Call me crazy but I'd like a system that can use either.
Oh. Well, great. Some wanker who can afford/waste more money than I gets an advantage I don't at the same game. That'll surely increase the fun-factor.
Well, yes but you don't need another monitor to do so just because.
Games can have review without being obtrusive or crude. It's just that so few actually implement it. Go play System Shock. Your character ends up with a device that, for a bit of power, gives you snapshots of what's behind you all the way to car-like rearview mirror real time view. And this is from around the time DOOM was around.
So what? It's up to the person playing to go out, buy a controller, and set up the game to use it. They certainly don't have too. And what point is it anyway?
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And several times that could be heard saying, "I fucking knew it."
Balooney. Whereas my friend went through 2 PSXs (he now plays them on an emulator or his PS2), I still got my N64. Similarly, I still have my Gamecube while he's on his second PS2.
I do wish the controllers would last longer though. I've had to buy 3 replacements for my GC and all of my N64 controllers should be replaced. Most of them it's the control stick that gets worn down and very loose.
As for the NES, that was trouble with the lockout chip or something and, no, you're not suppose to blow in it. Not that ever stopped me or anyone.
Wow! They're getting better already. At this rate next year, we'll have laptops that can run over 60 hours!
I know this is offtopic, but, damn, Doctor Ow is an awesome name. If only you could have punctuation as part of your legal name, too, because that really calls for an exclamation point.
I had respect for McCain once but ugh, who would be the VP? I've heard *gag* Rice is an option.
Seriously, it's all the same fucking people from both parties that are just get reguritated over and over and over again and it's just doing just a wonderful job at dissauding anyone from trying any meaningful protest.
But hey, on the bright side, our neightboring town is getting a new monolithic Miniluv.
The way I see it, when I was a youngin', before I started reading beyond the comics in the newspaper, and back when we had Slick Willy in office, I had no idea what a fucking shit hole this world can be.
:(
Now that I've grown up, am forced to work for a living, and a regular reader of the Op/Ed section, I see what terrible things my fellow humans can think and do. And nevermind what horrible shit has happened in the past; not the far-far past but 20 years ago, 30, and 40.
And do you know how scary it is to play Deus Ex or read 1984. Woo hoo. Let's get drunk and forget about tomorrow.
You're close. You're really close.
Both need to gtfo.
(Man, if I'm forced to choose between Clinton and some GOP wanker in '08, my head is gonna explode.)
In other words....
MORE AT 11!
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I like your thinking.
Wow you're such a tool. Disagreeing with the President = supporting terrorism? Bush working hard (despite the sheer amount of vacations he goes on)? War on Liberals? Six years of progress?
Dude or dudette, you need to get your head out of your ass and stop watching Fox News.
Wars of attrition have no real winners.
Except Nintendo.
I guess they figured out how to run a bunch of Crapware on it on startup.
Dude, stop buying Dell.
And~ the Turok controls sucked. It's mostly due to the control stick returning to the center so you could never look at something and just STARE. GoldenEye's controls worked because you didn't have many enemies shooting at you from above or below your position; they were almost always on the same plane as you were.
And please, he might have been ignoring "actual n64 games" but bad ones don't count. South Park? Bleh. Turok 3? Rage Wars? What else was there? Mission Impossible?
Maybe not but they (developers) simplified controls to play better. Using a keyboard isn't real. Using two mice (one for your head, the other for your gun) and foot pads to control movement would be even more real.
Besides, realism doesn't mean fun. Red Orchestra sounds awesome but I could never enjoy it. But GoldenEye (or the UT2004 mod replicating it) is loads of fun despite not being very realistic.
Any recall would be useless - if someone has one of these players and wants to keep it they'll just say it broke and they binned it.
I'd just LOVE to read in the paper about people being tracked down through their purchases of these players and forced, with/without compensation, to hand them over. American's determined to hold onto their guns is becoming smaller but damn you if you try to steal some urbanite's DVD player. Of course, it'd get played down or barely mention and what kind of American actually reads the paper or the news these days?
What a fantastic world I'm growing up in.
So what's the problem?
Just live longer.
See, that's the funny thing. They won't hand out the cards like candy because that would negate the whole "security/safety" thing. So, you lose your card and some gets it and, using fake driver license and birth certificate, they get one in YOUR name.
Wow, you just got fucked with no legal way to get your name back. Have a good life!
But wait, how about DNA? Well, it's the same damn thing except for those just born and intergrated into the system. Everyone else would have to line up with whatever ID they got, HOWEVER they got them, to submit a bit of blood and TALLY HO you're in the system. Unless, of course, someone beat you to the punch and got their DNA on YOUR name.
And well, nevermind what havok potential screwups would do to people's lives or what someone working for the system could do with malicous intent.
The whole point is that the more permanent ID (and so secure ID) you get, the greater chance to get royally fucked over.
Exactly. Just download, download, download.
Esspecially when your computer is less likely to get infected by a virus from anything torrented than by some DRMed CD/DVD.
Balooney.
Say you got the specs to run Halo 2 and Vista but you don't want to spend what, $200-300 to play the game? It's an artifical limit to try and force gamers to upgrade.
They MIGHT use it for something else too, but at a price tag comparable to any other decent alternative, what's the harm ?
The only harm I can see is that it drives up the cost to make the system. Sure they might sell a lot but if it's at a loss, well, I doubt they could pull an Xbox as well as Microsoft did. Down what, $2-4 billion AND THEY CAME BACK FOR MORE.
And remember, Nintendo gets away with selling consoles for profit so it's not all unheard of.
Probably because he's pissed that Namco was going to pump out a sequel with or without his help/approval.
Sadly, who is at fault in such a situation?
I don't really care what someone believes in but when they insist I believe in THEIR god and are willing to kill me if I don't, well gee, they kind of forced the issue, huh?
Well, it really depends on the game type. I CAN play FPS with dual analogue sticks but I'd prefer a mouse and keyboard. Just the same, I CAN play platformer with a keyboard but it's still like trying to run after getting kicked in the nuts.
Call me crazy but I'd like a system that can use either.
Oh. Well, great. Some wanker who can afford/waste more money than I gets an advantage I don't at the same game. That'll surely increase the fun-factor.
Well, yes but you don't need another monitor to do so just because.
Games can have review without being obtrusive or crude. It's just that so few actually implement it. Go play System Shock. Your character ends up with a device that, for a bit of power, gives you snapshots of what's behind you all the way to car-like rearview mirror real time view. And this is from around the time DOOM was around.
So what? It's up to the person playing to go out, buy a controller, and set up the game to use it. They certainly don't have too. And what point is it anyway?