I don't really buy fighting games for myself. Not usually. I made an exception with Soul Calibur, because that's just lots of fun. But I bought Marvel vs Capcom, and I was abut to take it back. I didn't understand why people liked it. Then I got my friends to play with me. That's the real draw there, if you've got friends then fighters are great. Quick games, letting one person swap out each fight. It's great. Of course if I didn't have any friends I wouldn't buy fighters.
I don't see why you hate the FF series; you may as well dislike all console RPGs then. FF is not the worst way of doing things; tell me how it is if you think so. They've had pretty good storylines, and generally have had new systems of magic with each one. Remember, there's a huge difference between computer RPGs and console RPGs, and a similar gap between those and pencil & paper RPGs. I play all of them and like all of them:)
The graphics on the dreamcast are absolutely amazing. I don't have one game that didn't floor me the first time I looked at it. So, let's see:
Soul Calibur: First game I bought. Absolutely beautiful. Crisp, clean graphics, and it looks even better if you have a VGA box to run it in a higher resolution on a computer monitor.
House of the Dead 2: Pretty good. Nice effects, perfect 60fps, very fun arcade shooter.
Marvel Vs. Capcom: Fun, even better when I bought one of those Agetec arcade sticks. Arcade perfect, which is nice because it was written for an entirely different system. Then again, Soul Calibur is infinitely better than its arcade counterpart, so...
Crazy Taxi: Arcade perfect, again. Perfect control as well. And lots of fun. 60fps, beautiful scenery, and if you get S class by arcade rules you get to see some lovely scenes from your previous game rendered somewhat differently than normal; I mistook it for FMV the first time I saw it, until I noticed some screwups I'd made in my game.
Sonic Adventure: Very good, lovely graphics. My only gripe is that everyone's quest is much shorter than Sonic's. But then again, for Big this is a good thing.
On the whole, if you like fighters then the dreamcast is for you. Ditto with sports games. Racing games are good too. But console RPGs are absent right now. Damn. Puzzle games seem to be coming for it though (and I love puzzle games, yay!).
Um, it did. But he kinda sucked; with one touch fireballs and no real amazing moves, he was either super cheap or super sucky. I'm kinda glad they took him out; while I love Rockman, as a fighter he sucked. a team of Jin and War Machine will take him out anytime.
Well... if you set MvC so the triggers are medium attacks, it's actually quite enjoyable. Though I like using my arcade stick better:) I love the DC pad. The analog and cross pads are very close (though using the cross pad a lot can be awkward), making for a nice combo if secondary actions (ones that won't fit in the limited number of buttons) need to be taken. And the analog pad is used nearly perfectly in most games; I'd much rather use the analog stick in Crazy Taxi than a steering wheel. And the small number of buttons isn't gonna make that much difference; I hear MvC2 is gonna use 4 buttons only, so it shouldn't hurt any here.
Does anyone know how the CPS2 Emulation project is coming along? I can play Capcom System 1 games (up to Street Fighter 2: Turbo Champion Edition) on my PC using Callus and MAME, but everything from Super Street Fighter 2 onward (including this game, Marvel vs. Capcom 2) cannot yet be emulated. I walk into an arcade, look at Puzzle Fighter 2, Marvel vs. Capcom, and Street Fighter Alpha 3, and I just sigh.
Okay, just a few things. One, a good source for information on CPS2 emulation is CPS2 Shock. Apparently they're still working on the encryption. Two, MvC2 is NOT, I repeat, NOT, a CPS2 game. MvC was, IIRC (if not, then it was CPS3, but I don;t think so). MvC2 is written for the Sega Naomi board (aka the dreamcast). Therefore it'll be a while before home computers are able to emulate it.
And, maybe it's just because I'm broke, but I rather like that they're coming out on consoles. Look at it this way: most video game consoles simply DONT CRASH. Computers do. A good computer will cost a hell of a lot to keep up to date enough to run these games at resolutions and framerates that they do in arcades and on consoles.
Of course, maybe I'm just saying this because I got my Dreamcast for free. But my PSX and N64 were stolen from me a while ago; I replaced my PSX, but not my 64... because there simply aren't that many good games for the N64.
I take issues with your assertion that consoles like the dreamcast will be $300 doorstops. Sure, it probably will be in about 3 or 4 years (average life of a console), but your computer will need to be upgraded several times in that time, which will cost more than a console.
There's a good reason why more console and arcade games aren't released for the PC... hardware compatibility. These companies can write code, and use a compiler for the arcade board, and even write directly to the hardware, all without worring about how different cards will interact with that, because they only have to consider what's there. There's nothing else. PCs however can have any number of different configurations, and it can interact weirdly.
Hmm, actually I did see my dreamcast crash once... when I was gonna play a game that proudly showed a splash screen that stated "Powered by Windows CE." Interesting.
if I chmod -R 777 / and allow users to add and remove arbitrary kernel modules, and some user fux0rs my system, who's fault is that? Simple: it's my fault.
Of course, do remember that this takes some effort on your part to do. You have to make your own system vulnerable, because you run an OS that isn't quite as dumb as some. There are others that aren't so fortunate.
So there are stupid people that use AOL on Windows. That doesn't make it their fault. Many people don't even know that there is an alternative; to them, AOL is the internet, and M$ Windows IS computers. We're blaming these people for not actively seeking a better alternative? That's not fair at all. AOL is taking advantage of people with this, and it's got to stop.
OK then. A while ago, I forget when, SNK decided to get into the pocket console business by releasing the Neo Geo Pocket. I don't know much about that; It was 16-bit, but grayscale, though I'm not sure how many shades of it there were. (I think, at least. The existence of monochrome games for the NGPC somewhat supports the existence of this, though I'm not sure and can be wrong)
A few months ago (probably a little longer), they released a better system that had color, the Neo Geo Pocket Color (heh, inventive name, eh?). Anyway, you can buy it at SNK America or most stores that sell video games; I know I've seen it at Software Etc, Electronics Botique, K*B Toys, and Wal-Mart.
One of my favorite things about the system is the joystick; it's got a good amount of resistance, not too much and not too little. It's almost like a hatswitch, there's a sort of dimple on top of it that your thumb fits comfortably into. It also clicks when you press any direction, so you can accurately time moves in fighting games.
The LCD is 160x152, and is capable of displaying 146 colors out of a possible pallate of 4096. In the hardware itself, the screen can be extended to deal with 256x256 at once. It has a Toshiba TLCS-900H cpu, 16-bit, and a separate Z80 for sound (which comes out sounding like the GB does). Memory isn't stored in the game cartridges, but on the system itself (which makes me wonder how much memory is on there), which is backed up by a (included) CR2032 battery. It runs for "up to" 40 hours on 2 AA batteries, and my experiences confirm this... as long as the sound is off. Which you might want anyway. The LCD is very clear in light, even dim light; it uses the same reflective LCD technology used in the GBC screen.
One of the more interesting things for it is the link cable to hook up certain games to a Sega Dreamcast. These are King of Fighters R-1, and SNK vs Capcom CFC and MOTM. They unlock secrets in KOF:DM 1999 and the upcoming SNK Vs Capcom for the Dreamcast.
There's not that many titles available for the NGPC; they're all very good though, coming from SNK, Capcom, and Sega. A partial listing:
SNK Vs Capcom. There are actually 3 different games of this( Well 2 I guess...): Match of the Millennium, the fighting game; Card Fighters Clash SNK, where you get more SNK cards and there's one exclusive card, and CFC Capcom, where it's like SNK but more Capcom stuff. These last two are like Pokémon in a way; it's a card game like Magic:TG, and you trade cards with CPU opponents and other people with the game.
Sonic's Pocket Adventure. It's a game like Sonic, but with all-new maps, and some of the focus is more on exploration than on speed sometimes.
Dark Arms: Beast Busters 1999: This sounds cool. A shooter/RPG where you can catch and evolve bio-weapons... kinda pokémonish.
Magical Drop: My favorite puzzle game in the Arcade (and NeoRageX...), now on the NGPC! I'm getting this next time I get my allowance:)
Pac-Man. Like the arcade:) Includes two viewing options: Scroll, or fit it all on the screen:)
Biomotor Unitron: RPG. Sounds cool. I need more money:)
Metal Slug: First Mission. Like the arcade, except it's all new missions are no longer linear... you choose where to go next:)
Various other arcade ports, like KoF, Fatal Fury, Samurai Showdown, and Crush Roller. A full list of available software can be found at this page, http://www.snkusa.com/hw.htm.
All of this makes the NGPC my favorite portable, and the best on the market. Sales have been decent, though as might be expected the GBC is selling more hardware and software.
I see many posters posting about how the Game Boy is aging hardware, and about how it's nice that they're finally releasing a development kit... Please stop making this mistake. At the risk of being marked redundant, I'm going to tell you all that THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE GAME BOY. This is about the Game Boy Advance, the new 32-bit advanced portable that Nintendo is bringing out late this year. This is an entirely different system; Nintendo is just using their name recognition with the GB to sell it. Please don't get confused. Especially since develpoment kits for the GB have been out for a very long time now. Thanks for your time (and not moderating me down).
Yes. Yes, for $70 exactly, there is a device that touches it. Beats it, in fact. That is the NeoGeo Pocket Color. Game boy has a paltry 56 colors on screen at once; NGPC has 146 at most. GBC is 8-bit; NGPC is 16. NGPC has almost 100% quality games... GB/C has a lot of bad ones, though there are some really excellent. I suppose the thing is you have to like fighting games or puzzle games to really like the NGPC. But SNK vs Capcom is the best portable fighting game I've ever played. And Magical Drop is the best buzzle game, at least IMO. There are a couple of other cool features... 2AA batteries and the same battery life as the GBC, plus it also has an internal clock, calendar, alarm, and horoscope:) Plus it can play games in Japanese or English. Oh, and it's Y2k compliant;)
Well, I was just at a B&N today, and they were having a special: the dictoinary, the Oxford English Dictionary, was only $960 for the whole set! Yeah, sure, I know that's the extreme here, every word known at the time it went to press and all, but still. Isn't that what this is what the list of all zip codes is?
Heh, yep everybody sits there clicking the 'Check Email' button, trying to have an IM chat with somebody...
Sadly enough, I know exactly how this is. I used to use AIM to communicate with a girl I know, but she got in trouble and lost her privilege to IM and since then we've been using email to take the place of IMs... heh, I sit there hitting "Send/Receive All" in OE as much as I can. It's almost hilarious to watch me when I'm expecting an email from her:)
I used to only use ICQ as well. But some things quickly got me to change to using it with AIM. One, the AIM interface for sending messages is better, IMO, what with not having to use different windows for sending/receiving messages. I also like the fact that you can see how long someone's been on... useful for my friends, because then I know how likely they are to be there, or be idling, or be just leaving. But what really got me to use AIM was the girl I fell in love with. She's not allowed to download programs, and uses AOL (but connects to it by TCP/IP, it's not like she's a full blown AOLer). Therefore in order to IM her I needed AIM. Then the interface grew on me. (I still like ICQ's file transfer better.). Oh, and don't think I didn't try and convert her:)
It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do:)
Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her:)
I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.
Well, I'm one of those nerd types too. Not completely... while my life revolves around computers, I don't yet know enough to be programming etc. But I've found the same lack of a love interest that a lot of people express.
I haven't had a girlfriend in 2.5 years. 'Course, I don't really get to complain; I know people 10 years older than me who've never had a girlfriend. I'm about to get a girlfriend soon, though. I can't tell you why; I wasn't particularly smooth or anything, and I'm terminally shy, and quite hard to get to know. I'm secretive about a lot of things, especially to people I just met. However, by some coincidence (which is kinda funny, she was trying to avoid this guy that she doesn't like) she started talking to me. She had the patience to talk to me for a while, put up with my not-talking-ness, tell me about herself, and wait to find out about me. She really likes me for who I am now, especially since she found out I'm highly honest with people I'm very close to.
While we're not technically a couple (she's just now allowed to date, she wants to try several guys first... and there's nothing I can do about that.), I have total trust and confidence in her... and I'm pretty sure that we'll end up going out fairly soon. Heh, we're probably gonna go see Princess Mononoke on the 6th, after it comes out in Sacramento:)
But I haven't told you all about her. She's absolutely beautiful (though she'd say she's not, and she thinks that no one else thinks that). She's one of the nicest people I've ever known. She's very cute in her mannerisms. She sorta likes computers... not with the same passion I do, but she can understand how I feel. I really love her, and I hope to be with her for a very long time.
Anyway, I think I've gone on long enough here... there's just one more thing, you can see pictures of her here and here
I hope you've enjoyed my nonsensical sappy corny loving ranting:)
The girl I'm currently trying to get with is interesting. She likes shy, perhaps somewhat nerdy guys. Heh, also she seems to attract only guys who like computers... every guy that's had a large interest in her so far has been someone nerdy in some way... all of us love computers, and use the internet (but I'm the only one that regularly reads/....). And in some way, we're all terminally shy:) Heh, I was so shy in fact that I had a crush on her for two months before some coincidence had her talk to me... but then we really hit it off... heh... this was 4 months ago, and the only reason I'm not going with her now is that she just turned 16 not too long ago, and she's mormon... and she's sorta busy, there's not been a free weekend for a while. But I'm sure you all care. In any case, she's found that "nerds" are generally nice people, and in the past they've had a good future ahead of them... in addition to being a very good candy (sorry, had to...)! I must be insane to think that this comment will be read, much less of any value to people, with all these other comments floating around...
I was at an event discussing anime at my local library yesterday, and the guy giving the erm... seminar, I guess you could call it, said that he'd seen an anime called "Perfect Blue," and they decently protrayed computers in it... it was still a mac, but there was real attention to detail put in it, i.e. no blazing fast computers, no T3 speeds in someone's house... and one of his friends was able to pin down the exact model of it by the apps loaded and the behavior of it. I'd like to see it but I hear it's got really poor distribution in theaters, I'll have to wait for the video (which he claims is coming soon).
I've heard about this device for a while; at first I was interested but then I remembered how great listening to audio CDs is on the PSX... not the greatest thing. Really, you'd want a nice set of speakers for this, and if you're the average PSX owner you don't have them... and you don't have a CD full of mp3s hanging around the house:) For me at least it'd be better to get an mp3-capable CD player, or just use mp3s on my computer:)
Last time I was at Software Etc. (picking up FF8) I was looking around; they had two distos, Red Hat 6.0 and a much cheaper box with Mandrake 6.0:) Really, $100 vs. $30, if I was gonna buy one I think you can all guess what I'd get:) --
Quite amused by some of the specs, though... 32Mb RAM for the latest-and-greatest? What are these things going to be doing when they catch up with PC specs?
I'm not entirely sure you get this; video game consoles have never needed, and likely never will need, as much RAM as a PC. Game consoles almost never need any large amount of ram, it's nearly all video memory in the N64. Think about it, no one's really going to be running a spreadsheet or opening large files on a game console/video and music system. I've got to wonder about the case design of the thing, though... icky tray loading, do they really want kids messing with that? I suppose they can then make a lot of money off of the repair charges... --
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Of course if I didn't have any friends I wouldn't buy fighters.
I don't see why you hate the FF series; you may as well dislike all console RPGs then. FF is not the worst way of doing things; tell me how it is if you think so. They've had pretty good storylines, and generally have had new systems of magic with each one. Remember, there's a huge difference between computer RPGs and console RPGs, and a similar gap between those and pencil & paper RPGs. I play all of them and like all of them :)
On the whole, if you like fighters then the dreamcast is for you. Ditto with sports games. Racing games are good too. But console RPGs are absent right now. Damn.
Puzzle games seem to be coming for it though (and I love puzzle games, yay!).
Um, it did. But he kinda sucked; with one touch fireballs and no real amazing moves, he was either super cheap or super sucky. I'm kinda glad they took him out; while I love Rockman, as a fighter he sucked. a team of Jin and War Machine will take him out anytime.
Well... if you set MvC so the triggers are medium attacks, it's actually quite enjoyable. Though I like using my arcade stick better :)
I love the DC pad. The analog and cross pads are very close (though using the cross pad a lot can be awkward), making for a nice combo if secondary actions (ones that won't fit in the limited number of buttons) need to be taken. And the analog pad is used nearly perfectly in most games; I'd much rather use the analog stick in Crazy Taxi than a steering wheel. And the small number of buttons isn't gonna make that much difference; I hear MvC2 is gonna use 4 buttons only, so it shouldn't hurt any here.
Okay, just a few things. One, a good source for information on CPS2 emulation is CPS2 Shock. Apparently they're still working on the encryption.
Two, MvC2 is NOT, I repeat, NOT, a CPS2 game. MvC was, IIRC (if not, then it was CPS3, but I don;t think so). MvC2 is written for the Sega Naomi board (aka the dreamcast). Therefore it'll be a while before home computers are able to emulate it.
And, maybe it's just because I'm broke, but I rather like that they're coming out on consoles. Look at it this way: most video game consoles simply DONT CRASH. Computers do. A good computer will cost a hell of a lot to keep up to date enough to run these games at resolutions and framerates that they do in arcades and on consoles.
Of course, maybe I'm just saying this because I got my Dreamcast for free. But my PSX and N64 were stolen from me a while ago; I replaced my PSX, but not my 64... because there simply aren't that many good games for the N64.
I take issues with your assertion that consoles like the dreamcast will be $300 doorstops. Sure, it probably will be in about 3 or 4 years (average life of a console), but your computer will need to be upgraded several times in that time, which will cost more than a console.
There's a good reason why more console and arcade games aren't released for the PC... hardware compatibility. These companies can write code, and use a compiler for the arcade board, and even write directly to the hardware, all without worring about how different cards will interact with that, because they only have to consider what's there. There's nothing else. PCs however can have any number of different configurations, and it can interact weirdly.
Hmm, actually I did see my dreamcast crash once... when I was gonna play a game that proudly showed a splash screen that stated "Powered by Windows CE." Interesting.
Of course, do remember that this takes some effort on your part to do. You have to make your own system vulnerable, because you run an OS that isn't quite as dumb as some. There are others that aren't so fortunate.
So there are stupid people that use AOL on Windows. That doesn't make it their fault. Many people don't even know that there is an alternative; to them, AOL is the internet, and M$ Windows IS computers. We're blaming these people for not actively seeking a better alternative? That's not fair at all. AOL is taking advantage of people with this, and it's got to stop.
I've never heard of the Neo Geo Pocket.
OK then. A while ago, I forget when, SNK decided to get into the pocket console business by releasing the Neo Geo Pocket. I don't know much about that; It was 16-bit, but grayscale, though I'm not sure how many shades of it there were. (I think, at least. The existence of monochrome games for the NGPC somewhat supports the existence of this, though I'm not sure and can be wrong)
A few months ago (probably a little longer), they released a better system that had color, the Neo Geo Pocket Color (heh, inventive name, eh?). Anyway, you can buy it at SNK America or most stores that sell video games; I know I've seen it at Software Etc, Electronics Botique, K*B Toys, and Wal-Mart.
One of my favorite things about the system is the joystick; it's got a good amount of resistance, not too much and not too little. It's almost like a hatswitch, there's a sort of dimple on top of it that your thumb fits comfortably into. It also clicks when you press any direction, so you can accurately time moves in fighting games.
The LCD is 160x152, and is capable of displaying 146 colors out of a possible pallate of 4096. In the hardware itself, the screen can be extended to deal with 256x256 at once. It has a Toshiba TLCS-900H cpu, 16-bit, and a separate Z80 for sound (which comes out sounding like the GB does). Memory isn't stored in the game cartridges, but on the system itself (which makes me wonder how much memory is on there), which is backed up by a (included) CR2032 battery. It runs for "up to" 40 hours on 2 AA batteries, and my experiences confirm this... as long as the sound is off. Which you might want anyway. The LCD is very clear in light, even dim light; it uses the same reflective LCD technology used in the GBC screen.
One of the more interesting things for it is the link cable to hook up certain games to a Sega Dreamcast. These are King of Fighters R-1, and SNK vs Capcom CFC and MOTM. They unlock secrets in KOF:DM 1999 and the upcoming SNK Vs Capcom for the Dreamcast.
There's not that many titles available for the NGPC; they're all very good though, coming from SNK, Capcom, and Sega. A partial listing:
All of this makes the NGPC my favorite portable, and the best on the market. Sales have been decent, though as might be expected the GBC is selling more hardware and software.
I see many posters posting about how the Game Boy is aging hardware, and about how it's nice that they're finally releasing a development kit...
Please stop making this mistake.
At the risk of being marked redundant, I'm going to tell you all that THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE GAME BOY. This is about the Game Boy Advance, the new 32-bit advanced portable that Nintendo is bringing out late this year. This is an entirely different system; Nintendo is just using their name recognition with the GB to sell it. Please don't get confused. Especially since develpoment kits for the GB have been out for a very long time now.
Thanks for your time (and not moderating me down).
There are a couple of other cool features... 2AA batteries and the same battery life as the GBC, plus it also has an internal clock, calendar, alarm, and horoscope
Anyway... I like my NGPC better than a GBC.
Well, I was just at a B&N today, and they were having a special: the dictoinary, the Oxford English Dictionary, was only $960 for the whole set!
Yeah, sure, I know that's the extreme here, every word known at the time it went to press and all, but still. Isn't that what this is what the list of all zip codes is?
Sadly enough, I know exactly how this is. I used to use AIM to communicate with a girl I know, but she got in trouble and lost her privilege to IM and since then we've been using email to take the place of IMs... heh, I sit there hitting "Send/Receive All" in OE as much as I can. It's almost hilarious to watch me when I'm expecting an email from her :)
I used to only use ICQ as well. But some things quickly got me to change to using it with AIM. :)
One, the AIM interface for sending messages is better, IMO, what with not having to use different windows for sending/receiving messages. I also like the fact that you can see how long someone's been on... useful for my friends, because then I know how likely they are to be there, or be idling, or be just leaving.
But what really got me to use AIM was the girl I fell in love with. She's not allowed to download programs, and uses AOL (but connects to it by TCP/IP, it's not like she's a full blown AOLer). Therefore in order to IM her I needed AIM. Then the interface grew on me. (I still like ICQ's file transfer better.). Oh, and don't think I didn't try and convert her
It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)
Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)
I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.
There needs to be more girls like that.
I haven't had a girlfriend in 2.5 years. 'Course, I don't really get to complain; I know people 10 years older than me who've never had a girlfriend. I'm about to get a girlfriend soon, though. I can't tell you why; I wasn't particularly smooth or anything, and I'm terminally shy, and quite hard to get to know. I'm secretive about a lot of things, especially to people I just met. However, by some coincidence (which is kinda funny, she was trying to avoid this guy that she doesn't like) she started talking to me. She had the patience to talk to me for a while, put up with my not-talking-ness, tell me about herself, and wait to find out about me. She really likes me for who I am now, especially since she found out I'm highly honest with people I'm very close to.
While we're not technically a couple (she's just now allowed to date, she wants to try several guys first... and there's nothing I can do about that.), I have total trust and confidence in her... and I'm pretty sure that we'll end up going out fairly soon. Heh, we're probably gonna go see Princess Mononoke on the 6th, after it comes out in Sacramento :)
But I haven't told you all about her. She's absolutely beautiful (though she'd say she's not, and she thinks that no one else thinks that). She's one of the nicest people I've ever known. She's very cute in her mannerisms. She sorta likes computers... not with the same passion I do, but she can understand how I feel. I really love her, and I hope to be with her for a very long time.
Anyway, I think I've gone on long enough here... there's just one more thing, you can see pictures of her here and here
I hope you've enjoyed my nonsensical sappy corny loving ranting :)
The girl I'm currently trying to get with is interesting. She likes shy, perhaps somewhat nerdy guys. Heh, also she seems to attract only guys who like computers... every guy that's had a large interest in her so far has been someone nerdy in some way... all of us love computers, and use the internet (but I'm the only one that regularly reads /. ...). And in some way, we're all terminally shy :) Heh, I was so shy in fact that I had a crush on her for two months before some coincidence had her talk to me... but then we really hit it off... heh... this was 4 months ago, and the only reason I'm not going with her now is that she just turned 16 not too long ago, and she's mormon... and she's sorta busy, there's not been a free weekend for a while. But I'm sure you all care. In any case, she's found that "nerds" are generally nice people, and in the past they've had a good future ahead of them... in addition to being a very good candy (sorry, had to...)! I must be insane to think that this comment will be read, much less of any value to people, with all these other comments floating around...
I was at an event discussing anime at my local library yesterday, and the guy giving the erm... seminar, I guess you could call it, said that he'd seen an anime called "Perfect Blue," and they decently protrayed computers in it... it was still a mac, but there was real attention to detail put in it, i.e. no blazing fast computers, no T3 speeds in someone's house... and one of his friends was able to pin down the exact model of it by the apps loaded and the behavior of it. I'd like to see it but I hear it's got really poor distribution in theaters, I'll have to wait for the video (which he claims is coming soon).
I've heard about this device for a while; at first I was interested but then I remembered how great listening to audio CDs is on the PSX... not the greatest thing. Really, you'd want a nice set of speakers for this, and if you're the average PSX owner you don't have them... and you don't have a CD full of mp3s hanging around the house :) :)
For me at least it'd be better to get an mp3-capable CD player, or just use mp3s on my computer
Last time I was at Software Etc. (picking up FF8) I was looking around; they had two distos, Red Hat 6.0 and a much cheaper box with Mandrake 6.0 :) Really, $100 vs. $30, if I was gonna buy one I think you can all guess what I'd get :)
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I'm not entirely sure you get this; video game consoles have never needed, and likely never will need, as much RAM as a PC. Game consoles almost never need any large amount of ram, it's nearly all video memory in the N64. Think about it, no one's really going to be running a spreadsheet or opening large files on a game console/video and music system.
I've got to wonder about the case design of the thing, though... icky tray loading, do they really want kids messing with that? I suppose they can then make a lot of money off of the repair charges...
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