Star Trek New Voyages is doing really well, and argues that TOS characters can be played by any skilled actor - just like in a LOTR play, a talented thesp could play Gandalf, and the same theory could be applied to Kirk, Spock, etc. in producing new TOS productions. (Hence, New Voyages)
And then all of a sudden, a new Kirk and Spock movie is announced by the Big Guns. Coincidence?
But Judas was just doing what Jesus told him to do!
Yeah, and if Jesus had told him to jump off a cliff, I'm sure Judas would have immediatley taken a running 'leap of faith', Wile E. Coyote-style. And the moon is made of green fucking knob cheese.
Does this mean that 'The Imperial March' has to be played every time Dubya enters a room or walks down a street? Or what about Emperor Palpatine's theme tune?
And will Dubya start spouting things like: 'The power to destroy a missile is insignificant next to the power of The Lord!', to his lackeys?
Cue to enter stage a village idiot, his teen-sister with a bad-hair year, a tall trash-can and a smaller bin on wheels, a smuggler with a carpet for a friend, and here be starting a rebellion...
Time after time after time, etc. I can't believe I'm still reading news about a company that is desperate for attention, any attention, in the media spotlight and does so solely to boost their stock rating. That's it. Any file motioned, it's a marketing ploy rather than having any credibility or legal component for justice, to keep the ol' shareholders happy.
$CO are perhaps *THE* definitive example of how not to run a company and just how much of a Judas an institution can be. Enjoy spending your diminishing pieces of silver, Darl(ings).
"Aren't macs generally considered over priced for their products? So would it be accurate to say, then, that these casual gamers would therefore be willing to pay near high-end price for those middle end graphics cards?"
I'm saving my pennies for a Mac Mini which are reasonably priced at about £500. I've got my own keyboard, mouse and monitor, so my Switch to what is reputadely a fairly decent gaming box (M$-driven) and design station (OS X) is just a few quid away. Although I'm gonna wait for the next version of OS X (leopard?) to be released first. Resistance isn't futile. And to be fair, I'm *really* looking to making That Switch...:)
Captain John Luc Picard (Steve Jobs): "We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And *I* will make them pay for what they've done."
If they play the Patent card, I will make it a life's dedication to *never* buy M$ again. Thank God I'm in Europe... start dishing out for the fine, Bill...
It just goes to show how weak, afraid and mafioso-like they still are. Intellectual-property? More like a desperate grab at everything that is, and isn't, nailed down so that they can cash their chips in later...
M$-patented air, anyone? They invented breathing, don'tchanknow...
Heres to reinventing an era in the here and now - when games were games (not cash-dispensors for software companies), men were men and women were women (whatever that means).
Right on, man! And I only cheated by replicating items in the character editor!
My point is: I had to *think* in a creative way to actually cheat. And even then it was only so I could get *another* Fire Horn when my bard(s) got a bit eager in battle.
Now a string of cheats come with any official players guide for modern games, as well as from countless games websites. Gah! New game cheats are just way too easy.
Hey, anybody remember Icewind Dale? I teamed up with a streamload of strangers to form an adventuring party on Gamespy, spending countless hours battling undead and Chaotic-Evil party members, and it was free. The characters didn't look like a work of art (although after I increased them a few level's, they became works of art in themselves - believe it dudes).
Did I say that the service was free? (apart from bandwidth costs, obviously.)
It might have been a linear experience, dedicated around a single, unchanging storyline, but it was FUN! The bitmapped graphics weren't WoW, but they were FUN! And I only had to spend my cash just the once to continually play it.
What happened to games like this one? Oh yeah, the creators were screwed over by their executives. And at around about the same time in which proprietary MMORPG's were starting to become financially lucrative... talk about a coincidence or what?
I think that games today are a stinking pile of highway banditry, and are leaning towards fleecing hard earned dollars constantly from consumers. The owners of WoW can hang up their oven-gloves and spend the rest of their lives doing the gardening since they've turned a significant amount of the worlds population into financial slaves. (I wonder where they got that methodology (M$) from?)
At least with The Bards Tale on my trusty ol' Atari ST, I could spend hours beneath Skara Brae without having to worry about my bank account being emptyied by Interplay. My message to the current generation of hardcore-games players is: Free yourselves, and run! Stick to the single players while you still can avoid being sucked into a dominance that you might find one day hard to abandon.
More on topic, computer graphics back then were, well, what graphics were supposed to look like. Today they might as well be digitised photo's. The art of the bitmapped pixel was never really understood by the management of the games companies, and were chucked from the mainstream way too soon in my opinion (bring back Outrun-like graphics, Sony!).
They were simple yet not stupid (i.e. Bards Tale). That's why those games worked. Games today are complicated to look at, but stupid, requiring little brainpower (although RTS is an exception to that opinion), and like I said earlier, present day computer leisure-time is being designed to drain your coffers and turn people into currency slaves. (but what's new?)
Bah, it almost sounds like a conspiracy!
If you want a career in I.T. you must be prepared to swallow not spit for your bosses, metaphorically speaking.
And to stay behind after hours will really make management feel 'satisfied'.
Of course, I'm referring to the installation of new servers;)
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Star Trek New Voyages is doing really well, and argues that TOS characters can be played by any skilled actor - just like in a LOTR play, a talented thesp could play Gandalf, and the same theory could be applied to Kirk, Spock, etc. in producing new TOS productions. (Hence, New Voyages)
And then all of a sudden, a new Kirk and Spock movie is announced by the Big Guns. Coincidence?
Nope. I also do M$ for Micro$oft. See, I did it twice then.
Does this mean that 'The Imperial March' has to be played every time Dubya enters a room or walks down a street? Or what about Emperor Palpatine's theme tune?
And will Dubya start spouting things like: 'The power to destroy a missile is insignificant next to the power of The Lord!', to his lackeys?
Cue to enter stage a village idiot, his teen-sister with a bad-hair year, a tall trash-can and a smaller bin on wheels, a smuggler with a carpet for a friend, and here be starting a rebellion...
Oh, another one?
Still saving for The Switch...
Time after time after time, etc. I can't believe I'm still reading news about a company that is desperate for attention, any attention, in the media spotlight and does so solely to boost their stock rating. That's it. Any file motioned, it's a marketing ploy rather than having any credibility or legal component for justice, to keep the ol' shareholders happy.
$CO are perhaps *THE* definitive example of how not to run a company and just how much of a Judas an institution can be. Enjoy spending your diminishing pieces of silver, Darl(ings).
I'm saving my pennies for a Mac Mini which are reasonably priced at about £500. I've got my own keyboard, mouse and monitor, so my Switch to what is reputadely a fairly decent gaming box (M$-driven) and design station (OS X) is just a few quid away. Although I'm gonna wait for the next version of OS X (leopard?) to be released first. Resistance isn't futile. And to be fair, I'm *really* looking to making That Switch...
It's funny because the world has now gone officially mad.
:)
Nice 'unholy' tag, it's the only thing that makes sense today.
We Know Where You Live... And Work.
The signal that the amateur radio guys received sounded somthing like:
"Help! I Want to come back, you bastards!"
Oh well, that should happen in about two hundred and fifty years or so, according to a Mr G. Roddenberry!
WAR!
:)
EU Vs The States...
Now that's something you don't see every 60 years or so...
By the way, M$ is what I was referring to in the title. Honestly. 'Absolutely Nothing' would be a follow up.
"People should not be afraid of their governments... etc."
Revolution, anyone?
The trouble with we Brits, is this: We are too complacent.
Remember, Remember....
Windows is so slow because it's a stinking pile of shit!
If they play the Patent card, I will make it a life's dedication to *never* buy M$ again. Thank God I'm in Europe... start dishing out for the fine, Bill...
It just goes to show how weak, afraid and mafioso-like they still are. Intellectual-property? More like a desperate grab at everything that is, and isn't, nailed down so that they can cash their chips in later...
M$-patented air, anyone? They invented breathing, don'tchanknow...
Heres to reinventing an era in the here and now - when games were games (not cash-dispensors for software companies), men were men and women were women (whatever that means).
The Bitmap is King! (and Queen!)
It's just a publicity stunt.
Maybe they are desperate for business and wanted a (little) world-wide attention any way they could get it.
No PR is Bad PR! (they say)
Right on, man!
And I only cheated by replicating items in the character editor!
My point is: I had to *think* in a creative way to actually cheat. And even then it was only so I could get *another* Fire Horn when my bard(s) got a bit eager in battle.
Now a string of cheats come with any official players guide for modern games, as well as from countless games websites. Gah! New game cheats are just way too easy.
Hahahaha... fuck, that brings back a lot of happy memories. Thanks. :)
Hey, anybody remember Icewind Dale? I teamed up with a streamload of strangers to form an adventuring party on Gamespy, spending countless hours battling undead and Chaotic-Evil party members, and it was free. The characters didn't look like a work of art (although after I increased them a few level's, they became works of art in themselves - believe it dudes).
Did I say that the service was free? (apart from bandwidth costs, obviously.)
It might have been a linear experience, dedicated around a single, unchanging storyline, but it was FUN! The bitmapped graphics weren't WoW, but they were FUN! And I only had to spend my cash just the once to continually play it.
What happened to games like this one? Oh yeah, the creators were screwed over by their executives. And at around about the same time in which proprietary MMORPG's were starting to become financially lucrative... talk about a coincidence or what?
And as for the younger generation's trailing mouse-pointers, as well... deary, deary me.
It's an unnecessary drain on resources, but the kids love it.
Especially freaking animated dinosaur mouse-pointers.
M$ make people buy through their own children.
The cads!
heh, I think I'll just stick with KOTOR I & II, thanks. :P
I think that games today are a stinking pile of highway banditry, and are leaning towards fleecing hard earned dollars constantly from consumers. The owners of WoW can hang up their oven-gloves and spend the rest of their lives doing the gardening since they've turned a significant amount of the worlds population into financial slaves. (I wonder where they got that methodology (M$) from?)
At least with The Bards Tale on my trusty ol' Atari ST, I could spend hours beneath Skara Brae without having to worry about my bank account being emptyied by Interplay.
My message to the current generation of hardcore-games players is: Free yourselves, and run! Stick to the single players while you still can avoid being sucked into a dominance that you might find one day hard to abandon.
More on topic, computer graphics back then were, well, what graphics were supposed to look like. Today they might as well be digitised photo's. The art of the bitmapped pixel was never really understood by the management of the games companies, and were chucked from the mainstream way too soon in my opinion (bring back Outrun-like graphics, Sony!).
They were simple yet not stupid (i.e. Bards Tale). That's why those games worked. Games today are complicated to look at, but stupid, requiring little brainpower (although RTS is an exception to that opinion), and like I said earlier, present day computer leisure-time is being designed to drain your coffers and turn people into currency slaves. (but what's new?)
Bah, it almost sounds like a conspiracy!
If you want a career in I.T. you must be prepared to swallow not spit for your bosses, metaphorically speaking.
;)
And to stay behind after hours will really make management feel 'satisfied'.
Of course, I'm referring to the installation of new servers