Heh. Personally, the "gritty" (and watery) taste is what has always turned me off ice cream (except for packaged stuff like Cornetto, ice cream sandwiches, etc.). I always just figured it was just the way ice cream was supposed to taste, and usually waited until it melted before even considering eating it.
Someone will hire a company to implement this. This company will have a very stubborn, self-righteous president, but it will manage to get a working solar satellite into space, along with a terrestrial reception station. However, efficiency will not be as high as expected. Eventually a decision will be made to cut public spending on this technology, and the president will say, I quote:
YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!
A few days later, everyone will be weeping over the catastrophe caused by a mysteriously misaligned microwave beam. The president of the company will be nowhere to be seen, but his name will start appearing unusually frequently in pump-and-dump stock scams.
This comes at a bad time for those of us who are getting games for Christmas. Sure, it might be a bit dubious declaring a game as your Game of the Year based on just a week's worth of playtime, but I have no idea how good or bad they'll turn out to be...
Additionally, people also say "EvE" because it's what it looks like on the logo, and "Eve" because, I assume, they're too lazy to capitalize the rest of the word.
I think the problem here is that GTA has gotten so much press (good and bad) that a lot of people have no idea, or a warped idea, of what the game is about. Going just on press coverage and never having played the game, you might think people were paying $50 for a game where you get to beat up pedestrians, with no story or whatever.
Personally I finished the story mode and then I'd pick it up every so often to go on cheat-assisted rampages, but the thing is that it gets boring after a while - cars exploding and hordes of people flying through the air gets boring after you've reached six stars for the two hundredth time.
While I don't "feel" more violent after playing games like this, I do feel like I take a different attitude towards games like GTA than I do towards more immersive FPSs - when playing GTA, I'm usually aware that I'm just manipulating a character around in a virtual environment, and I don't really go "into" the world; on the other hand, when playing FPSs like Halo or Battlefield 2/2142, if I play for long enough, after a while I begin to mesh with the game - aka "zone out" - and I've noticed that if I stop playing and get up while in the zone, I tend to act... differently. Not "jump around the corner and whack someone on the head" different, but rather, I start sneaking around and peeking around corners, etc. as if I was still in the game. This usually goes away within ten minutes, but I found it interesting.
Same here (I stopped playing in June after starting in February this year), although the reason I'm a dissuaded from rejoining is that it'll probably end in monotony and "haha 2007 noob" again, along with the neverending ticking of skill counters.
Heh. I'm reminded of an old Omni short-story they published in one of their short-story compilations, "The Rocks That Moved". The reason behind their movement was a bit different, though...
Natalie Portman?... no, wait, can't have been that... oh, wait, I know! Net Neutrality!... not that either? Am I getting warmer... oh, hold on, it was OMG Ponies! Of course!
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Heh. Personally, the "gritty" (and watery) taste is what has always turned me off ice cream (except for packaged stuff like Cornetto, ice cream sandwiches, etc.). I always just figured it was just the way ice cream was supposed to taste, and usually waited until it melted before even considering eating it.
Heh, Troll mod. I guess he/she never played SimCity 2000.
Someone will hire a company to implement this. This company will have a very stubborn, self-righteous president, but it will manage to get a working solar satellite into space, along with a terrestrial reception station. However, efficiency will not be as high as expected. Eventually a decision will be made to cut public spending on this technology, and the president will say, I quote: A few days later, everyone will be weeping over the catastrophe caused by a mysteriously misaligned microwave beam. The president of the company will be nowhere to be seen, but his name will start appearing unusually frequently in pump-and-dump stock scams.
I'm not sure what you're asking, but I've always heard of conversion between scripts (i.e. writing systems) being called transliteration.
... but I can give you an answer in about a year's time.
Good point.
To the headcrab lab!
This comes at a bad time for those of us who are getting games for Christmas. Sure, it might be a bit dubious declaring a game as your Game of the Year based on just a week's worth of playtime, but I have no idea how good or bad they'll turn out to be...
I was going to read TFA but I went MIA, probably due to a PEBKAC. Will give a sitrep ASAP.
Additionally, people also say "EvE" because it's what it looks like on the logo, and "Eve" because, I assume, they're too lazy to capitalize the rest of the word.
On good days, but it has the unfortunate side-effect of making every enemy in the game a walking Schrödinger's Cat experiment.
I think the problem here is that GTA has gotten so much press (good and bad) that a lot of people have no idea, or a warped idea, of what the game is about. Going just on press coverage and never having played the game, you might think people were paying $50 for a game where you get to beat up pedestrians, with no story or whatever.
Personally I finished the story mode and then I'd pick it up every so often to go on cheat-assisted rampages, but the thing is that it gets boring after a while - cars exploding and hordes of people flying through the air gets boring after you've reached six stars for the two hundredth time.
While I don't "feel" more violent after playing games like this, I do feel like I take a different attitude towards games like GTA than I do towards more immersive FPSs - when playing GTA, I'm usually aware that I'm just manipulating a character around in a virtual environment, and I don't really go "into" the world; on the other hand, when playing FPSs like Halo or Battlefield 2/2142, if I play for long enough, after a while I begin to mesh with the game - aka "zone out" - and I've noticed that if I stop playing and get up while in the zone, I tend to act... differently. Not "jump around the corner and whack someone on the head" different, but rather, I start sneaking around and peeking around corners, etc. as if I was still in the game. This usually goes away within ten minutes, but I found it interesting.
Same here (I stopped playing in June after starting in February this year), although the reason I'm a dissuaded from rejoining is that it'll probably end in monotony and "haha 2007 noob" again, along with the neverending ticking of skill counters.
Heh. I'm reminded of an old Omni short-story they published in one of their short-story compilations, "The Rocks That Moved". The reason behind their movement was a bit different, though...
I think that would be rather insignificant, considering we'd just have found English-speaking aliens.
Aren't you going to be crapping your pants by the time they've clambered up the railings, anyway?
Remember, kids, always have Alyx on speed dial. Or declaw your headcrabs.
M-M-MULTI KILL!
And frag terrorist butt in CS:S while they're at it.
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Bah, UIDv6 will have enough combinations to assign a UID to each hair on their furry butts!
Are they greener than red LCDs?
Natalie Portman?... no, wait, can't have been that... oh, wait, I know! Net Neutrality! ... not that either? Am I getting warmer... oh, hold on, it was OMG Ponies! Of course!
But you put your fingers in your ears! Ew!
Right after they started offering Steam over Automatic Portal (SoAP), a few days ago.
Some people are complaining about the cake, though.
I don't know, but your joke certainly caused personal warming, judging by the flamebait mod... which is like the third I've seen in this story alone.
Or use more disclaimers.