When I think of Nintendo, I think of their tier 1 titles. That's not to say there aren't any good 3rd party titles, but Zelda, Mario, Metriod... These games are a driving force which the big-N uses to drive sales.
It would really help if they fixed that up and brought back some of their other franchises: RARE's properties, Kirby, Bomberman... but really I'd just like it if they stopped with the multiplayer cluster-party games (I stopped playing New Super Mario Bros when I realized that I could die because my brother had misplaced/aimed a jump and landed on my head) and released a properly serious game, like a Zelda.
Yes I am, actually. My Macbook Pro is a nice machine, but its batteries wear out so fast that I eventually decided to just get a Dell netbook with Linux instead of replacing the battery all the damn time (and having to triple-boot the MBP). I'm typing this on that netbook, which gets 4-5 hours of battery life after almost a year of use and can be used to program on Linux.
Assassin's Creed 2 is all right provided that you do like in AC1 and ignore the hell out of the framing story. The Glyph puzzles are a load of crap: "highlight the circular object and guess which pictures have clothing to win a conspiracy theory!". I'm desperately hoping that they realize throwing/r/conspiracy's mishmash of ideas into a game story was a bad idea and retcon that stuff out in AC3.
You're right of course, but what this research really demonstrates is that many US students appear to suffer from a total inability to cope with solitude. Needing to have constant contact, physical or virtual, with other people is no healthier, more productive, or more moral than needing to live entirely apart from others at all times.
Somewhere between 50% and 100% of his given population equates zionism with naziism. While this may or may not be true based on his location, I doubt it was the point he was trying to get across.
Who is "he"? The person who does the juxtaposing? Sure, he and his population believe that Zionism == Nazism. That was my point, the reason I restated Godwin's Law for the Middle East. The two things are fundamentally different, and people need to learn not to juxtapose them.
They wont dare taking on things like israeli lobbyism, afganistan, Iran, irak, palestine, south america, US foreign policy or anything even remotely sensitive. The greed that has put american factories in China making countless americans out of work just for very shortsighted profits isnt something i expect them to cover either.
You do realize that South Park is not the television wing of the foreign-policy radical left?
Most people you describe as "left-wing radicals" aren't anti-Israel.
I'm sorry to get dragged onto this tangent, but most of the "left-wing radicals" who claim Israel has committed genocide and call its pre-1967 borders an "occupation" of "Palestinian land" are either Arab/Islamist radicals (exactly as I said) or anti-Semites (because they assume that Jews lack rights Arabs have).
We're all in favor of the two-state solution here, but the Left has a cancerous colony of people demanding the one-state Arab conquest in the name of "peace". It's about time these unjust, un-peaceful racists were kicked out of our wing.
Oh shut the fuck up. I've had it up to my neck with Internet Islamists like you calling everything that makes Islam, Islamism, Islamofascism, or any subset thereof Jewish propaganda.
You looked as far as the Gaian extremists to find militancy on the current-day Left? Have you seen the foreign-policy Left's hesitating-but-clear support for Islamism?
Linux is at a local maximum. You can't really make it much better at being a Unix-workalike general-purpose system in any hugely interesting ways, and if you want to do really interesting operating-systems work you have to go for a radical redesign that breaks with the Unix Way and abandons backwards compatibility.
If everyone stopped buying, playing, and pirating DRM-infested titles for 1 month the industry would shit itself. We sold 0 titles? Oh then they must be downloading. No downloads? No activity on the servers at all? W-T-F? Let's get a new title out there with full-on advertising. No one bought it? W-T-F? OK, maybe let's look at this DRM thing.
And if everyone stopped buying fast food, stopped watching movies, and went on strike for better labor conditions we could have the capitalist pigs trembling in their boots!
Problem: Myself and many others have actually refrained from buying their games. I haven't even pirated them (because a full, working crack hasn't been released for Assassin's Creed 2). I even wrote them a hand-written email in protest of the DRM. It isn't helping. They just kind of assume that everyone who doesn't buy their game is a pirate.
That's simply not true. I'm in college right now, and all of our department's computers are triple-booting iMacs. Most of the students actually run at least two of the three major operating systems if not all three.
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When I think of Nintendo, I think of their tier 1 titles. That's not to say there aren't any good 3rd party titles, but Zelda, Mario, Metriod... These games are a driving force which the big-N uses to drive sales.
It would really help if they fixed that up and brought back some of their other franchises: RARE's properties, Kirby, Bomberman... but really I'd just like it if they stopped with the multiplayer cluster-party games (I stopped playing New Super Mario Bros when I realized that I could die because my brother had misplaced/aimed a jump and landed on my head) and released a properly serious game, like a Zelda.
I think that when you wrote "fascist" you meant "authoritarian".
Yes I am, actually. My Macbook Pro is a nice machine, but its batteries wear out so fast that I eventually decided to just get a Dell netbook with Linux instead of replacing the battery all the damn time (and having to triple-boot the MBP). I'm typing this on that netbook, which gets 4-5 hours of battery life after almost a year of use and can be used to program on Linux.
I mean these conferences, ever more luxurious and wasteful, are looking like Torah conferences at Auschwitz.
Your phrasing is hilarious. I would like you to explain its precise meaning and allow me to subscribe to your newsletter.
Assassin's Creed 2 is all right provided that you do like in AC1 and ignore the hell out of the framing story. The Glyph puzzles are a load of crap: "highlight the circular object and guess which pictures have clothing to win a conspiracy theory!". I'm desperately hoping that they realize throwing /r/conspiracy's mishmash of ideas into a game story was a bad idea and retcon that stuff out in AC3.
You're right of course, but what this research really demonstrates is that many US students appear to suffer from a total inability to cope with solitude. Needing to have constant contact, physical or virtual, with other people is no healthier, more productive, or more moral than needing to live entirely apart from others at all times.
Somewhere between 50% and 100% of his given population equates zionism with naziism. While this may or may not be true based on his location, I doubt it was the point he was trying to get across.
Who is "he"? The person who does the juxtaposing? Sure, he and his population believe that Zionism == Nazism. That was my point, the reason I restated Godwin's Law for the Middle East. The two things are fundamentally different, and people need to learn not to juxtapose them.
That being?
Oy gevalt, when did idolatry become the cool new fad?
Without an internal leak of some kind, how else does a game get distributed prior to the release data?
Well duh, it falls off the back of a truck while being shipped to GameStop.
Since when was ReactOS capable enough to run major commercial games?
They wont dare taking on things like israeli lobbyism, afganistan, Iran, irak, palestine, south america, US foreign policy or anything even remotely sensitive. The greed that has put american factories in China making countless americans out of work just for very shortsighted profits isnt something i expect them to cover either.
You do realize that South Park is not the television wing of the foreign-policy radical left?
Most people you describe as "left-wing radicals" aren't anti-Israel.
I'm sorry to get dragged onto this tangent, but most of the "left-wing radicals" who claim Israel has committed genocide and call its pre-1967 borders an "occupation" of "Palestinian land" are either Arab/Islamist radicals (exactly as I said) or anti-Semites (because they assume that Jews lack rights Arabs have).
We're all in favor of the two-state solution here, but the Left has a cancerous colony of people demanding the one-state Arab conquest in the name of "peace". It's about time these unjust, un-peaceful racists were kicked out of our wing.
Oh shut the fuck up. I've had it up to my neck with Internet Islamists like you calling everything that makes Islam, Islamism, Islamofascism, or any subset thereof Jewish propaganda.
Get off my internet you god-damned anti-Semite.
Nature is not God. Get your head out of the feminist/homosexual theory books and look at the real world.
You looked as far as the Gaian extremists to find militancy on the current-day Left? Have you seen the foreign-policy Left's hesitating-but-clear support for Islamism?
Linux is at a local maximum. You can't really make it much better at being a Unix-workalike general-purpose system in any hugely interesting ways, and if you want to do really interesting operating-systems work you have to go for a radical redesign that breaks with the Unix Way and abandons backwards compatibility.
If everyone stopped buying, playing, and pirating DRM-infested titles for 1 month the industry would shit itself. We sold 0 titles? Oh then they must be downloading. No downloads? No activity on the servers at all? W-T-F? Let's get a new title out there with full-on advertising. No one bought it? W-T-F? OK, maybe let's look at this DRM thing.
And if everyone stopped buying fast food, stopped watching movies, and went on strike for better labor conditions we could have the capitalist pigs trembling in their boots!
Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
I didn't buy it, haven't yet pirated it, and wrote them a damn email. It hasn't gotten the DRM taken out despite untold numbers of people doing so.
And btw. the game is fully cracked as someone has posted there is a full server emu!
Sweet, where do I get it?
Problem: Myself and many others have actually refrained from buying their games. I haven't even pirated them (because a full, working crack hasn't been released for Assassin's Creed 2). I even wrote them a hand-written email in protest of the DRM. It isn't helping. They just kind of assume that everyone who doesn't buy their game is a pirate.
That's simply not true. I'm in college right now, and all of our department's computers are triple-booting iMacs. Most of the students actually run at least two of the three major operating systems if not all three.
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Of course it's not news, but putting the word "Israel" in a story title gets page-hits.
Last I heard "Consumer Reports" hasn't gone bankrupt.
That's not remotely a free market; it's arbitrage of labor.