User: idonthack

Completely impossible...

On: The Tongue Twisting Tooth Microphone

Gilligan got hit in the mouth accidently and his filling became a radio

...but the Magic of Television makes it so.
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Re: "budget reconciliation" != "cut spending"

On: Broadcast Flag Back in Congress

GP said "in office", not "won office".
You said yourself that Lincoln's inauguration was March 4, 1861. 8 states seceded before that, 7 after. That's about half.
 
(Hint: You're not actually in office until you're inaugurated)

Speaking of the Revo...

On: The King of the Mushroom Kingdom

I wonder if it will have optional left-handed controllers?

Two tags

On: Practical Exploits of Broken MD5 Algorithm

Why did he use Javascript?

<!-- --> is all you need, and it works in every browser.

vgs!

On: Cursing as Peephole Into Brain Architecture

Why do I never have mod points when I see the awesome people?
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Re:Two Words

On: Talking 'Bout A Revolution

Damn my modpointlessness.
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Or not.

On: Talking 'Bout A Revolution

Quoting 1-Up's article:

[The controller] was incredibly responsive to even slight wrist movements-I barely had to move my hand at all.

If they whack someone, it's their own damn fault :)
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The Other Side of the Sword

On: Talking 'Bout A Revolution

It also works the other way, though.

Nintendo might not get many 3rd-party games (again) because the interface is different.

Game devs will put out a game for the other two systems, and totally ignore the Revo because their game just doesn't work with its style of control.
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Re:Amen - My wife likes to play too.

On: Talking 'Bout A Revolution

Zelda: 4 Swords Adventure

"Any game where I can beat my brother unconcious with a chicken and not get in trouble is a great game in my book."
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Incorrect

On: Talking 'Bout A Revolution

And for the record most of those [10-games-in-1] units sold for $24.99-$39.99 in the States... about the same as the cost of a new console title.

No, the console games are twice that much. ($50-$60) Portable game titles (GBA, DS, PSP) are around the price you mention.
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What about

On: New System to Counter Photo and Video Devices

People with glasses?

I don't want to get blinded every time I walk up to a trade show display.
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Actually

On: Artist Suggesting Ways Around Copy Protection

The "christian rock band" is just a front. It's not who they really are.

Re:I'd never heard of the band..

On: Artist Suggesting Ways Around Copy Protection

They don't need it. They're already mainstream. And, if what I hear from people that have talked to them is correct, they're posers too.

Uh Oh

On: Rockstar Strikes Back

They're doing this? To the guy who was going to take legal action on the author of VGCats because he sent the guy an email?
 
Can you say "lawsuit"?
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Re:Variable exposure?

On: HL2 - Lost Coast Playtest and Tech Details

Couldn't this cause pretty serious gameplay issues, especially if it's used in multiplayer in the future? It wouldn't be much fun to be shot at by an enemy you can't see while waiting for the brightness adjustment to catch up, or by one outside a window who's obscured by the glare of sunlight...

No, it would be awesome. It would add more depth and tactics to the game. It would make it difficult to watch bright doorways from a dark room, but also make it difficult for people on the outside to look in and see you. Flashlights would actually be useful, things like that.

Re:Still on a 2.4 kernel?

On: Slackware Linux 10.2 Released

2.4 doesn't need patches every other week, and it's more stable.

Re:It could be worse.

On: Linspire 5.0 Free For Limited Time

The optional AP Computer Science exams they give at my school allow you to use any names you wish for your variables, classes, and methods.

I am so taking them this year.
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Re:Obviously

On: Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts?

I seriously almost had this as FP myself. I clicked on the story and opened it in a background tab, then went and looked at something else for five minutes. I came back, and noticed... there were NO COMMENTS. I refreshed the page, hoping it would still be blank (yeah right) and thought of this same thing to post. BUt of course, now there's 38 comments. Crap, I need to pay more attention. Would have been my first FP too.
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Re:Functional programming

On: Brute Force

They were looking for an antonym, and I guess they figured Slashcode could do a demonstration.
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Deja Vu!

On: GoldenEye:Source

I played a map in CS:Source yesterday called "007_temple" that was, obviously, a remake of the GoldenEye "Temple" map. It was way different from those screenshots in TFA, but I wonder if there's a connection.
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Re:Power

On: 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop?

Since anyone can edit a Wikipedia article, it could just be someone playing a practical joke :) It's not hard to make stuff like that up.
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Re:Eternal Darkness?

On: Nintendo Patents Insanity

Hey! Listen! You don't have to pay.

Reducing the player sanity

On: Nintendo Patents Insanity

Instead you try to reduce the player's sanity

Some insanity effects:

• You'll open your inventory, only to find that you've lost
  all of your items.
• Your TV will appear to have changed video modes, but you
  can hear yourself being attacked.
• The word Mute will appear, as if someone has muted your TV, and all noise will cease.
• The game will "reset"
• After you save your game, the game will say that it is deleting your game.
• You'll walk into a room, and have many zombies surrounding you, and the game will give you a message that it doesn't detect a controller in port 1.
• You'll see the word Volume will appear, and the volume bar will decrease.

I think that's what they're really patenting, not the blood-on-the-walls thing.

Effects taken From this GameFAQ
http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/gamecube/file/etern al_darkness_sanity.txt

Re:grammar checker

On: OpenOffice 2.0 vs. MS Office Review

I don't know why they ditched [Clippy] though.

It looks like you're trying to write a letter!

Re:If they really wanted to advance the UMD format

On: PSP Usage Lower Than Expected

Web-browser on your TV.

They tried that. It was called WebTV. It sucked.