These will be generic controllers that can work with multiple games though.
Plenty of people (including me) are happy to buy even specific drum and guitar controllers to play rock band games, and they are nowhere near as versatile as generic motion controllers.
Plus, what is there really to "get used to".. do you not move your arms around from day to day? My 80 year old grandmother was playing Wii bowling at Christmas (and getting strikes!), and I doubt she's ever played a computer game in her life.. there's a lot less to get used to with these types of controllers.
I thought global warming was just observed fact, and the thing that is trying to be proven is the actual cause of it. Actually though, because of the strange climate we have here, global warming is only going to make my country colder at first. Hah.
I used Commodores, BBCs, then Macs and Amigas throughout my childhood. I then got a Windows box (around 98 or 99, it had 98SE anyway) while dabbling in Linux from time to time, and now I am a full time Linux user at both work and home (with PS3 for gaming). So just because you don't know people who like both Amiga and Linux, doesn't mean they aren't there. In fact, I remember being interested in learning about UNIX based OSes before I ever got an x86 PC - it started when Amiga Format had an issue with a QNX floppy on the cover.
In CS, a rifle takes 3-5 hits to kill someone with armor and a grenade does
That's why you aim for the head.. needing headshots was one of the reasons I enjoyed CS so much. I get bored having to pump lots of shots into people.
DoD was a great game too, and there wasn't so much need to be cautious or camp because of the instant respawning, but I'd say there was still plenty of camping going on - as there should be if you have control points to protect - but the grenades were indeed good for sorting that out:)
I found playing Rainbow 6 and Counterstrike back to back was a slap in the face for this very reason. In R6 you run around getting shot but ultimately making progress whereas in CS you run towards the enemy and die almost immediately.
Hah, seriously? I'd say I felt the opposite. The enemies in R6 seemed kinda unrealistically difficult to me with the way they could see you through foliage when you couldn't see shit, etc. I only got through a couple of levels before getting bored. I spent a *lot* of time playing CS. After realising that if you bring your character to a stop you immediately have perfect aim, it made me such a better player. Also running around with your gun aimed at head height means a lot less to do when you see an enemy, you can headshot people almost reflexively by stopping and shooting.
I coded up my own bots to play against before I had a decent internet connection, and I tried to make the bots as human as possible. It was a much better single player experience than most of the games I've played, more enjoyable even than the "official" CS bots that came out (based on the POD bot), which were again inhumanly good with their aiming a lot of the time (but far too dumb if you put them to the lower skill levels).
It was very frustrating at times, but amazingly rewarding when you did complete the missions.. it wasn't until after I completed it that I realised you were almost invisible when prone, so I didn't need to worry as much as I had been doing:P I played it for 3 days straight, had about 4 hours sleep altogether, I just couldn't stop playing it. It was the first game I played with gravity (and wind?) affecting the bullets - hitting a moving targets from hundreds of metres away with a sniper rifle was pretty difficult, but so much more rewarding than your average FPS.
'Realistic' games are for a special breed of lamer
Actually, from my CS days I seem to remember the very best players could kick ass just by running around with a pistol.. camping is slightly more realistic yes, but it doesn't guarantee winning by any means.. if someone keeps camping, use flashbangs, shoot through the walls, etc. That's one reason I stopped enjoying CS so much when the source version came out actually, very few opportunities for wall shots (however unrealistic they are).
I do get off my couch btw, and guns aren't very common here in the UK. I think tactical FPS shooters are a great form of entertainment, much better than WoW and similar "you can do anything if you spend enough time grinding" type games.
I think Counter-Strike had it down pretty well. Quite easy to die, and then you have to wait out the rest of the round until everyone else is dead. If the round time is long enough, it encourages you to play as if it's more "real", as there is a real downside to dying.
the first thing my programming lecturer said to those that had done pascal programming before, was to forget everything we'd ever learnt before learning C.
That seems rather extreme. The control structures and basic syntax are very very similar (just there are often words in pascal where you would find a punctuation mark in C).. and most of the variable types are similar, with the exception of strings. I think the main problem I've had in the past when switching between the two is simply to remember to use:= instead of = for assignments.
I started off on Amos BASIC on the Amiga (and some BASIC on the Commodore 100, BBCs and Macs before that, but the Amiga was when I got really interested at around the age of 11), and since then have done various projects with a some C/C++, a fair amount of Delphi, and more recently I've mostly been doing PERL generated web apps which I've started to spruce up via JavaScript.
Personally I use my netbook all the time, even for work. For developing web apps and doing server admin it's fine. You only need a fast CPU if you're doing any really intensive processing like 3D games, 3D CAD, structural simulatios etc.. and all of those are just niches in terms of the overall PC market.
it has a portrait style monitor and not that wretched landscape, it's a lot easier to read the newspapers.
I know why landscape rectangular is sold, it has fewer square inches the farther away from square it gets. I'll pay for a portrait monitor, really I will.
First off, 4:3 is not "portrait" style - that would be more like a widescreen monitor turned on its side. I remember one of my English teachers had a screen like that back in the 90s for doing word processing and page layouts.
Why don't you just get a widescreen monitor and mount it at 90 degrees if you really have to be viewing a whole page at once? Or simply don't expand your apps to fill the whole screen if you prefer thinner paragraphs.
I did think you were mixing the metaphors a bit strangely. Didn't notice the missing r, and admittedly if I did I probably would have thought it a typo, though now that you mention it I have heard of that word.
Despite that, I think my not knowing several almost completely useless words does little to change my original point.
I call $4,500.00 in savings over three years, very significant and you should too!
I didn't say it wasn't significant, though as I said, this only works for you. And your previous plan was *insanely* priced if you were paying that much. Here you can get 'unlimited' data and texts for £15 a month.
I basically never call people, I just use my phone for checking cinema times, sending and receiving texts, and receiving the occasional work call.
Marketing types at your phone provider may still call your number even if you've never given it out to anyone btw. If you leave the phone switched off then that's fine though. But still, it's silly to pretend that what works for you would work for everyone. Most people these days are used to "always on" connections, and I think this is how things should and will eventually be - the ability to use online services anytime, anyplace.
Well, I tried one of the Battlefield games recently and it's not bad. It's basically just a vaguely more realistic Team Fortress* though, with vehicles.
*and when I think Team Fortress, I think Quake.. not much has happened since then when it comes to multiplayer FPS games.. headshots.. vehicles.. co-op.. umm.. achievements? Meh.
It's just really annoying disrupting the flow of voice chats and the like if you have to reboot every time you go to play a game with your friends. You also have to wait extra time to startup, download patches etc, and all manner of little inconveniences that just add up to making it really annoying to dual boot if you are doing it regularly. If a game doesn't run in WINE but runs acceptably in a VM, that's great.
Personally I just got fed up of all these stupid workarounds and have weaned my gaming habits onto consoles for the timebeing, so that I am free to run Linux without feeling that I am missing out when it comes to games. Without the need for maintaining a decent gaming rig I can also get by with much, much lower (and hence cheaper) hardware requirements. It doesn't stop me drooling over new AlienWare machines and the like though - I always have to remind myself I have no use for these things just now:)
Hey! I spent many happy years of my life playing pre-source CS. It's still better than a LOT of the crap that passes for online games these days. Before about 1.5 I didn't even have a decent internet connection, I spent a lot of time making my own bots to play against xD
I have no idea of the number of corpses, and it doesn't matter the number of dead, it's the principal of the whole of what he said - ie unjust incarceration and torture.
Besides, being a corpse is arguably better than being held and tortured by a bunch of vigilante fuckwits who won't observe basic human rights.
If you give no indication that you're going to do it, they can't stop you. It doesn't take long to kill someone. To plan some kind of terrorist attack against more than one person would take a little more planning, but even random individuals with guns have done a lot of damage in the past. I was just pointing out that basically anyone could murder someone else if they wanted. Anyone could walk up to a stranger in a crowded street and put a knife through their throat. They wouldn't be expecting it, and so would have little chance to stop you. People are "free" to do things that way if they really desire it. Thankfully almost nobody has any reason to do such things. And definitely nobody has a *good* reason to do such things.
You might believe yourself to be free to kill the person "if you really wanted to", but fact of the matter is that you're not, because you'll never "really want to"
That makes no sense. As you say, if they really wanted to, they could do it, so they are free to do it in that regards. There is no government sanctioned brain control mechanism in place to stop it (well, AFAIK, I confess I haven't actually tried killing anyone yet!).
They are not "free" to do it in the sense that we are talking about, because there are laws against it. There's a difference between "can get away with it" and "free to do it". Even if you had a group of consenting adults engaging in cannibalism or some such activity, it would still be illegal. They can do it, but they'd better not get found out, or they will face consequences.
My friend's uncle and his family were trying to cross the border from Canada to the US for a day trip, when the uncle was taken into a side room for something like 8 hours. The fuckers wouldn't even give him a drink of water or let his family know what was going on. I can't remember the details of the story now, but I'm pretty sure he said they didn't even any questions, just kept staring at him and refusing to respond to his own questions. They eventually released him, but didn't let anyone across the border. It's disgraceful that they can get away with treating people like that. Maybe they're just hoping that people will get violent so that they have an excuse to beat on them?
The family name is Wlodarczyk, it's Polish. I think Polish names are pretty common in Canada though so I'm not sure if it had anything to do with it. Though in fact the local council here in Aberdeen (UK) tried to deport my friend to Poland even though he was born here! So he's really paranoid about his name and thinks it had something to do with how his uncle was treated.
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These will be generic controllers that can work with multiple games though.
Plenty of people (including me) are happy to buy even specific drum and guitar controllers to play rock band games, and they are nowhere near as versatile as generic motion controllers.
Plus, what is there really to "get used to".. do you not move your arms around from day to day? My 80 year old grandmother was playing Wii bowling at Christmas (and getting strikes!), and I doubt she's ever played a computer game in her life.. there's a lot less to get used to with these types of controllers.
Your ex is over 3 billion years old? That must have chafed..
I thought global warming was just observed fact, and the thing that is trying to be proven is the actual cause of it. Actually though, because of the strange climate we have here, global warming is only going to make my country colder at first. Hah.
I used Commodores, BBCs, then Macs and Amigas throughout my childhood. I then got a Windows box (around 98 or 99, it had 98SE anyway) while dabbling in Linux from time to time, and now I am a full time Linux user at both work and home (with PS3 for gaming). So just because you don't know people who like both Amiga and Linux, doesn't mean they aren't there. In fact, I remember being interested in learning about UNIX based OSes before I ever got an x86 PC - it started when Amiga Format had an issue with a QNX floppy on the cover.
In CS, a rifle takes 3-5 hits to kill someone with armor and a grenade does
That's why you aim for the head.. needing headshots was one of the reasons I enjoyed CS so much. I get bored having to pump lots of shots into people.
DoD was a great game too, and there wasn't so much need to be cautious or camp because of the instant respawning, but I'd say there was still plenty of camping going on - as there should be if you have control points to protect - but the grenades were indeed good for sorting that out :)
I found playing Rainbow 6 and Counterstrike back to back was a slap in the face for this very reason. In R6 you run around getting shot but ultimately making progress whereas in CS you run towards the enemy and die almost immediately.
Hah, seriously? I'd say I felt the opposite. The enemies in R6 seemed kinda unrealistically difficult to me with the way they could see you through foliage when you couldn't see shit, etc. I only got through a couple of levels before getting bored. I spent a *lot* of time playing CS. After realising that if you bring your character to a stop you immediately have perfect aim, it made me such a better player. Also running around with your gun aimed at head height means a lot less to do when you see an enemy, you can headshot people almost reflexively by stopping and shooting.
I coded up my own bots to play against before I had a decent internet connection, and I tried to make the bots as human as possible. It was a much better single player experience than most of the games I've played, more enjoyable even than the "official" CS bots that came out (based on the POD bot), which were again inhumanly good with their aiming a lot of the time (but far too dumb if you put them to the lower skill levels).
It was very frustrating at times, but amazingly rewarding when you did complete the missions.. it wasn't until after I completed it that I realised you were almost invisible when prone, so I didn't need to worry as much as I had been doing :P I played it for 3 days straight, had about 4 hours sleep altogether, I just couldn't stop playing it. It was the first game I played with gravity (and wind?) affecting the bullets - hitting a moving targets from hundreds of metres away with a sniper rifle was pretty difficult, but so much more rewarding than your average FPS.
'Realistic' games are for a special breed of lamer
Actually, from my CS days I seem to remember the very best players could kick ass just by running around with a pistol.. camping is slightly more realistic yes, but it doesn't guarantee winning by any means.. if someone keeps camping, use flashbangs, shoot through the walls, etc. That's one reason I stopped enjoying CS so much when the source version came out actually, very few opportunities for wall shots (however unrealistic they are).
I do get off my couch btw, and guns aren't very common here in the UK. I think tactical FPS shooters are a great form of entertainment, much better than WoW and similar "you can do anything if you spend enough time grinding" type games.
Operation Flashpoint was another good one. I'd say it's still number one on my games "experiences" list to this day..
I think Counter-Strike had it down pretty well. Quite easy to die, and then you have to wait out the rest of the round until everyone else is dead. If the round time is long enough, it encourages you to play as if it's more "real", as there is a real downside to dying.
the first thing my programming lecturer said to those that had done pascal programming before, was to forget everything we'd ever learnt before learning C.
That seems rather extreme. The control structures and basic syntax are very very similar (just there are often words in pascal where you would find a punctuation mark in C).. and most of the variable types are similar, with the exception of strings. I think the main problem I've had in the past when switching between the two is simply to remember to use := instead of = for assignments.
I started off on Amos BASIC on the Amiga (and some BASIC on the Commodore 100, BBCs and Macs before that, but the Amiga was when I got really interested at around the age of 11), and since then have done various projects with a some C/C++, a fair amount of Delphi, and more recently I've mostly been doing PERL generated web apps which I've started to spruce up via JavaScript.
Personally I use my netbook all the time, even for work. For developing web apps and doing server admin it's fine. You only need a fast CPU if you're doing any really intensive processing like 3D games, 3D CAD, structural simulatios etc.. and all of those are just niches in terms of the overall PC market.
it has a portrait style monitor and not that wretched landscape, it's a lot easier to read the newspapers.
I know why landscape rectangular is sold, it has fewer square inches the farther away from square it gets. I'll pay for a portrait monitor, really I will.
First off, 4:3 is not "portrait" style - that would be more like a widescreen monitor turned on its side. I remember one of my English teachers had a screen like that back in the 90s for doing word processing and page layouts.
Why don't you just get a widescreen monitor and mount it at 90 degrees if you really have to be viewing a whole page at once? Or simply don't expand your apps to fill the whole screen if you prefer thinner paragraphs.
I did think you were mixing the metaphors a bit strangely. Didn't notice the missing r, and admittedly if I did I probably would have thought it a typo, though now that you mention it I have heard of that word.
Despite that, I think my not knowing several almost completely useless words does little to change my original point.
I call $4,500.00 in savings over three years, very significant and you should too!
I didn't say it wasn't significant, though as I said, this only works for you. And your previous plan was *insanely* priced if you were paying that much. Here you can get 'unlimited' data and texts for £15 a month.
I basically never call people, I just use my phone for checking cinema times, sending and receiving texts, and receiving the occasional work call.
Marketing types at your phone provider may still call your number even if you've never given it out to anyone btw. If you leave the phone switched off then that's fine though. But still, it's silly to pretend that what works for you would work for everyone. Most people these days are used to "always on" connections, and I think this is how things should and will eventually be - the ability to use online services anytime, anyplace.
Well, I tried one of the Battlefield games recently and it's not bad. It's basically just a vaguely more realistic Team Fortress* though, with vehicles.
*and when I think Team Fortress, I think Quake.. not much has happened since then when it comes to multiplayer FPS games.. headshots.. vehicles.. co-op.. umm.. achievements? Meh.
It's just really annoying disrupting the flow of voice chats and the like if you have to reboot every time you go to play a game with your friends. You also have to wait extra time to startup, download patches etc, and all manner of little inconveniences that just add up to making it really annoying to dual boot if you are doing it regularly. If a game doesn't run in WINE but runs acceptably in a VM, that's great.
Personally I just got fed up of all these stupid workarounds and have weaned my gaming habits onto consoles for the timebeing, so that I am free to run Linux without feeling that I am missing out when it comes to games. Without the need for maintaining a decent gaming rig I can also get by with much, much lower (and hence cheaper) hardware requirements. It doesn't stop me drooling over new AlienWare machines and the like though - I always have to remind myself I have no use for these things just now :)
Hey! I spent many happy years of my life playing pre-source CS. It's still better than a LOT of the crap that passes for online games these days. Before about 1.5 I didn't even have a decent internet connection, I spent a lot of time making my own bots to play against xD
I have no idea of the number of corpses, and it doesn't matter the number of dead, it's the principal of the whole of what he said - ie unjust incarceration and torture.
Besides, being a corpse is arguably better than being held and tortured by a bunch of vigilante fuckwits who won't observe basic human rights.
If you give no indication that you're going to do it, they can't stop you. It doesn't take long to kill someone. To plan some kind of terrorist attack against more than one person would take a little more planning, but even random individuals with guns have done a lot of damage in the past. I was just pointing out that basically anyone could murder someone else if they wanted. Anyone could walk up to a stranger in a crowded street and put a knife through their throat. They wouldn't be expecting it, and so would have little chance to stop you. People are "free" to do things that way if they really desire it. Thankfully almost nobody has any reason to do such things. And definitely nobody has a *good* reason to do such things.
You might believe yourself to be free to kill the person "if you really wanted to", but fact of the matter is that you're not, because you'll never "really want to"
That makes no sense. As you say, if they really wanted to, they could do it, so they are free to do it in that regards. There is no government sanctioned brain control mechanism in place to stop it (well, AFAIK, I confess I haven't actually tried killing anyone yet!).
They are not "free" to do it in the sense that we are talking about, because there are laws against it. There's a difference between "can get away with it" and "free to do it". Even if you had a group of consenting adults engaging in cannibalism or some such activity, it would still be illegal. They can do it, but they'd better not get found out, or they will face consequences.
Save Guantanamo, people are not dragged away to torture, incarceration and sometimes murder without trial.
That's like saying "if you ignore the trees, there is no forest here".
[almost all of your] elected officials have
My friend's uncle and his family were trying to cross the border from Canada to the US for a day trip, when the uncle was taken into a side room for something like 8 hours. The fuckers wouldn't even give him a drink of water or let his family know what was going on. I can't remember the details of the story now, but I'm pretty sure he said they didn't even any questions, just kept staring at him and refusing to respond to his own questions. They eventually released him, but didn't let anyone across the border. It's disgraceful that they can get away with treating people like that. Maybe they're just hoping that people will get violent so that they have an excuse to beat on them?
The family name is Wlodarczyk, it's Polish. I think Polish names are pretty common in Canada though so I'm not sure if it had anything to do with it. Though in fact the local council here in Aberdeen (UK) tried to deport my friend to Poland even though he was born here! So he's really paranoid about his name and thinks it had something to do with how his uncle was treated.
Isn't that what happens if you get ranked badly in metamoderation? I'm not going to RTFMMM just now.