Of course you can call the NeoGeo successful. It made SNK loads of money and had new games made for it for well over a decade. Unfortunately, SNK couldn't follow up its success and with the death of the old-school arcade, there wasn't a whole lot of new money to be made from the system.
The Turbografx 16 was also hugely successful, just not in the American or European markets. In Japan, where it was known as the PC Engine, it was more popular than the Sega Mega Drive (aka Genesis) and was a legitimate competitor to both the NES and the SNES. Again, though, NEC and Hudson couldn't follow up on their success and exited the market. By your logic, the Genesis was a huge failure because Sega no longer makes consoles.
Actually, that's A-OK for you to do under the GPL. However, as you're not the original copyright holder, you'd have to make the source code available to any of your customers who asks for it.
Also, most people think of "evil" as things like torture, murder, rape, genocude and war - not being prevented from enjoying some pop-culture entertainment. Again, seems pretty obvious.
All things are black and white! There are no shades of grey! When people say "evil" they always equate what they are speaking about with holocausts, rape rooms, and bad spelling! Thus if something is not as bad as those things, then it must be good because the world is binary!
Really? Without looking it up on the internet, tell me the exact day the Hindenberg crashed. Same with the Titanic. The Eschede train disaster. If 9/11 were caused by lightning it would certainly have been a memorable event and wound up on about a hundred Discovery Channel specials, but the exact date of it would likely have been forgotten, and there wouldn't be the huge politicisation of the event that there was. Nobody would be telling you to "remember 9/11". It would just be some crazy shit that happened, of interest mostly to airplane and disaster buffs and an excuse for people afraid of flying to stay on the ground.
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Don't knock the theme just because you don't get it or enjoy it. While I'm not going to pretend most of those games aren't total shit, some (like GTA:SA) are pretty good, and the "urban" theme is shared with some excellent and thought provoking films. To carry that further, I'm willing to bet you don't have the same disgust for The Godfather or The Sopranos. Both are well-written, well-directed, and well-acted. Do you have the same problem with those that you apparently do for movies like Boyz in the Hood (which is a pretty good movie if you can get past the "urban" surface)? And if you don't hold any contempt for those movies, why shit all over the games? Are a few shitty games enough for you to declare an entire genre worthless?
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Morrowind is Elder Scrolls III. Oblivion is IV.
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Doom 3 was scary for the first little bit, but after the 50th god damned time I was walking along in the dark and a monster appeared behind me it felt pretty tiresome. The guys at id need to learn that good horror is more than a guy in the shadows jumping out shouting "BOO!"
I'd never heard about screem before, but it looks a lot like Bluefish. Is it a fork? What improvements does it offer vs. Bluefish? There were things I liked about Bluefish, but its syntax highlighting had a tendency to stop working all of a sudden, and it didn't offer code folding so I switched to JEdit. Does Screem have better syntax highlighting and code folding?
(No, having the ability to install it from the ports collection is *not* an improvement over having the ability to easily download and install a pre-compiled version.)
I don't know why you'd even need to mount or unmount it by hand these days either. I put in a disc, it shows up in Konqueror right away, and when I'm done with it, I right click it and select "Eject disk". I set this up under Gentoo, as well, which is notoriously unfriendly.
Men's drive is (mostly) to have as many as possible with as many women as possible.
Men generally want to have sex with as many women as possible, but I don't know too many who want to have children with all of those women. The threat of child support payments do a pretty good job of mitigating that evolutionary drive for most guys.
The catch there is that condoms reduce the sensations of sex, making it less pleasurable. Granted, condom sex is still better than no sex, and I personally would use one in any situation where I didn't trust the woman I was with (for more reasons than just pregnancy), but most guys are more worried about pregnancies than STDs and "I'm on the pill" is good enough to keep them from using one.
I agree, though, we'll probably see more STD infections after this hits the market as guys switch to "the male pill" instead of condoms.
You don't really need to have played the first KOTOR, but it certainly helps give you background. KOTOR 2 follows a different bunch of characters (save for a couple) and all the events of the first game (ie: the Jedi Civil War) sort of colour the events in the second, but the main PC is an ex-Jedi who didn't fight in the war and was in regions distant from those events as the happened. In effect, though you may lose out on some of the game's background, the unfamiliarity might help you get "in character".
Unlike a few people here, I thought KOTOR 2 was a pretty good game, though I agree that the ending was garbage. It's worth a playthrough if you're a Star Wars fan or an RPG fan, regardless of whether this ending patch ever comes.
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Of course you can call the NeoGeo successful. It made SNK loads of money and had new games made for it for well over a decade. Unfortunately, SNK couldn't follow up its success and with the death of the old-school arcade, there wasn't a whole lot of new money to be made from the system.
The Turbografx 16 was also hugely successful, just not in the American or European markets. In Japan, where it was known as the PC Engine, it was more popular than the Sega Mega Drive (aka Genesis) and was a legitimate competitor to both the NES and the SNES. Again, though, NEC and Hudson couldn't follow up on their success and exited the market. By your logic, the Genesis was a huge failure because Sega no longer makes consoles.
Maybe they should live someplace where there's more than one doctor then, such as all major cities and most counties and large townships.
If they reject, you can always publish it in some blog.
After that, you can just submit your blog entry as a story.
I would guess that the V stands for "very". And yes it's stupid, but almost all of the internet acronyms are.
Bush is a christian and there are christians in the US, therefor iraq is a US Holy War
I don't think people would so readily jump to this conclusion if he hadn't said he was on a mission from God.
What ever happened to the cool missions from God, like touring across the country in an old police car playing blues to save an orphanage?
I'll give you $5 and some envelopes.
Are we sure we should be pursuing this kind of research? Isn't this how Curt Connors became The Lizard?
Actually, that's A-OK for you to do under the GPL. However, as you're not the original copyright holder, you'd have to make the source code available to any of your customers who asks for it.
No, that would be the case if it were translated from English to Japanese badly. They're going from Japanese to English with this one.
Also, most people think of "evil" as things like torture, murder, rape, genocude and war - not being prevented from enjoying some pop-culture entertainment. Again, seems pretty obvious.
All things are black and white! There are no shades of grey! When people say "evil" they always equate what they are speaking about with holocausts, rape rooms, and bad spelling! Thus if something is not as bad as those things, then it must be good because the world is binary!
Off-topic (well, sort of), but I wanted to give kudos to you for the editorial in your sig.
Really? Without looking it up on the internet, tell me the exact day the Hindenberg crashed. Same with the Titanic. The Eschede train disaster. If 9/11 were caused by lightning it would certainly have been a memorable event and wound up on about a hundred Discovery Channel specials, but the exact date of it would likely have been forgotten, and there wouldn't be the huge politicisation of the event that there was. Nobody would be telling you to "remember 9/11". It would just be some crazy shit that happened, of interest mostly to airplane and disaster buffs and an excuse for people afraid of flying to stay on the ground.
Don't knock the theme just because you don't get it or enjoy it. While I'm not going to pretend most of those games aren't total shit, some (like GTA:SA) are pretty good, and the "urban" theme is shared with some excellent and thought provoking films. To carry that further, I'm willing to bet you don't have the same disgust for The Godfather or The Sopranos. Both are well-written, well-directed, and well-acted. Do you have the same problem with those that you apparently do for movies like Boyz in the Hood (which is a pretty good movie if you can get past the "urban" surface)? And if you don't hold any contempt for those movies, why shit all over the games? Are a few shitty games enough for you to declare an entire genre worthless?
Morrowind is Elder Scrolls III. Oblivion is IV.
PS2 is "old school" now?
Doom 3 was scary for the first little bit, but after the 50th god damned time I was walking along in the dark and a monster appeared behind me it felt pretty tiresome. The guys at id need to learn that good horror is more than a guy in the shadows jumping out shouting "BOO!"
I'd never heard about screem before, but it looks a lot like Bluefish. Is it a fork? What improvements does it offer vs. Bluefish? There were things I liked about Bluefish, but its syntax highlighting had a tendency to stop working all of a sudden, and it didn't offer code folding so I switched to JEdit. Does Screem have better syntax highlighting and code folding?
(No, having the ability to install it from the ports collection is *not* an improvement over having the ability to easily download and install a pre-compiled version.)
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Pre-compiled? "pkg_add -r emacs"
I don't know why you'd even need to mount or unmount it by hand these days either. I put in a disc, it shows up in Konqueror right away, and when I'm done with it, I right click it and select "Eject disk". I set this up under Gentoo, as well, which is notoriously unfriendly.
Just out of curiosity, are you using Cedega or something else to run those games? Any luck with Prey or Farcry?
Street Fighter was so bad that it killed him.
Apparently he posts on Slashdot, too. Here's his profile.
Men's drive is (mostly) to have as many as possible with as many women as possible.
Men generally want to have sex with as many women as possible, but I don't know too many who want to have children with all of those women. The threat of child support payments do a pretty good job of mitigating that evolutionary drive for most guys.
The catch there is that condoms reduce the sensations of sex, making it less pleasurable. Granted, condom sex is still better than no sex, and I personally would use one in any situation where I didn't trust the woman I was with (for more reasons than just pregnancy), but most guys are more worried about pregnancies than STDs and "I'm on the pill" is good enough to keep them from using one.
I agree, though, we'll probably see more STD infections after this hits the market as guys switch to "the male pill" instead of condoms.
You don't really need to have played the first KOTOR, but it certainly helps give you background. KOTOR 2 follows a different bunch of characters (save for a couple) and all the events of the first game (ie: the Jedi Civil War) sort of colour the events in the second, but the main PC is an ex-Jedi who didn't fight in the war and was in regions distant from those events as the happened. In effect, though you may lose out on some of the game's background, the unfamiliarity might help you get "in character".
Unlike a few people here, I thought KOTOR 2 was a pretty good game, though I agree that the ending was garbage. It's worth a playthrough if you're a Star Wars fan or an RPG fan, regardless of whether this ending patch ever comes.