It would seem pretty normal to me, I used to work in HMV and as employees we would only pay the cos price and it was roughly 50% of the price on the actual tag in the store.
Yeah, grim reaper is a pain to beat... I personally use the triple shot boomerang and jump and throw them non stop at different heights so you can kill the flying sickle right away. There is a lot of timing practice to do with this, but I found it works really well like that. Keep moving helps also as it was mentionned in other posts. Dracula is more of a technical boss, the way I do it is: wait until he opens his cape to shoot, you basically want to jump over the middle fireball and whip the top one and his head at the same time. It's a long fight, but unless he appears on you it's a very safe trick and if you keep moving, it should be ok. The second form now for me is just spam holy water and jump whip, I never found that part as difficult as the reaper or dracula though.
Well look, here we go again.
Most creationist talk about how science is fuzzy and has it all wrong and it's usually based on the fact that scientist never say : this is the truth and we know it for sure at 100%. Science proceeds by falsification, so the closest you can get to say something is true is: "We cannot prove it's false." When opposed to fundamentalists that hold things in the Bible for 100% true, of course they're gonna say science is fuzzy. Viewing science as "another belief" is assuming science proves things true and only shows a lack of understanding of science in general. Now the funny thing is that science and religion were not always ennemies. That only began when science began to disprove theories that religion sided with.( See flat earth, earth at the center of the solar system, evolution...)That's when religion, who took upon themselves to explain everything about world creation and dynamics, saw science as "heretic" and dealt with it as most as they could (ex: Galileo facing Inquisition). Science deals with things observable and disprovable. Soul, Gods, spirits, spaghetti monsters, this is the domain of metaphysics. Anything that is NOT disprovable, so about which there can only be questions and stale debates. Having a spiritual belief is in no way in contradiction with being very rational. Religion mingling with science is dangerous, as much as religion mingling with government. Anyway... why do I bother...
...American society is changing for the worse because of the machines... In the past to flee the real world people usually chose drugs or alcohol... now you don't have to do that, Now all you have to do is have enough money to buy a machine...
Yeah it's really changing for the worse... what don't we go back to good ol' drugs and alcohol instead if those... those... machines.. !!
FTFA: "The Wii also provides full backward compatibility with GameCube games (a small panel on the console's side lifts up to reveal four controller ports), but doesn't actually play DVDs (unlike originally announced). "
sigh... So since how long do we know that you actually need an add-on to play DVD on the Wii?
And they also did an episode on the Sony PSP back then... and I think they glorified it even more than what they did with the Wii... but that's not the point of the episode anyway...
... are we going to see the first case of a kid getting expelled for playing tag...??
"Dear parents,
It has come to our attention that your child has recently taken part willfully in what the kids call a "game of tag", which as you might now is now banned from our school as a very violent and dangerous activity. We are very concerned about little Billy's behaviour, as he seemed to enjoy running around and performing near collision stunts with other mischievous children. We had at least 4 bad cases of collision last year due to tag alone and this got to stop, so we have no choice to kick your kid out of school as an exemplary measure. We recommend that you pay attention to your child activities as they might involve other violent things like touch football, hide and seek or, god help us, playing doctor with the little girl next door.
Yours etc..
A very concerned principal"
Bleh... wrong solutions to problems that doesn't even exist..
I think the problem have been pointed out already and resides in the justification itself: "I'm for freedom of speech and the first amendment, but we have to protect children from.... " In the name of the children we demand either: a) more legislation in the quest for ethics which inevitably results in a loss of liberty of thinking or b) more censorship in the name of the freedom of speech. This is not very different from saying: "I'm for freedom of speech, but there's this book here which talks about communism and we must protect democracy! We can't allow people to read that!" or how about a book which says god doesn't exist, i'm all for freedom of speech you know, but if my child where to read somewhere that there is no god, think of the damage that could do! Inquisition used to use the same kind of arguments to burn books and people. I'm sure they used the save the children argument in those days also. Rating games is as efficient as rating movies or music, shich is close to none. Children will still play them, maybe even more because of the attactiveness of the forbidden. It's censorship disguised as a benevolent measure to better society. State never should decide what you should see or read, that only leads to state deciding what you should think or vote.
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It would seem pretty normal to me, I used to work in HMV and as employees we would only pay the cos price and it was roughly 50% of the price on the actual tag in the store.
Yeah, grim reaper is a pain to beat... I personally use the triple shot boomerang and jump and throw them non stop at different heights so you can kill the flying sickle right away. There is a lot of timing practice to do with this, but I found it works really well like that. Keep moving helps also as it was mentionned in other posts. Dracula is more of a technical boss, the way I do it is: wait until he opens his cape to shoot, you basically want to jump over the middle fireball and whip the top one and his head at the same time. It's a long fight, but unless he appears on you it's a very safe trick and if you keep moving, it should be ok. The second form now for me is just spam holy water and jump whip, I never found that part as difficult as the reaper or dracula though.
Am I the only one that is disturbed by a party called christian democrats? "Power to the people... as long as God agrees!"
Well look, here we go again.
Most creationist talk about how science is fuzzy and has it all wrong and it's usually based on the fact that scientist never say : this is the truth and we know it for sure at 100%. Science proceeds by falsification, so the closest you can get to say something is true is: "We cannot prove it's false." When opposed to fundamentalists that hold things in the Bible for 100% true, of course they're gonna say science is fuzzy. Viewing science as "another belief" is assuming science proves things true and only shows a lack of understanding of science in general. Now the funny thing is that science and religion were not always ennemies. That only began when science began to disprove theories that religion sided with.( See flat earth, earth at the center of the solar system, evolution...)That's when religion, who took upon themselves to explain everything about world creation and dynamics, saw science as "heretic" and dealt with it as most as they could (ex: Galileo facing Inquisition). Science deals with things observable and disprovable. Soul, Gods, spirits, spaghetti monsters, this is the domain of metaphysics. Anything that is NOT disprovable, so about which there can only be questions and stale debates. Having a spiritual belief is in no way in contradiction with being very rational. Religion mingling with science is dangerous, as much as religion mingling with government. Anyway... why do I bother...
...American society is changing for the worse because of the machines... In the past to flee the real world people usually chose drugs or alcohol... now you don't have to do that, Now all you have to do is have enough money to buy a machine...
Yeah it's really changing for the worse... what don't we go back to good ol' drugs and alcohol instead if those... those... machines.. !!
FTFA: "The Wii also provides full backward compatibility with GameCube games (a small panel on the console's side lifts up to reveal four controller ports), but doesn't actually play DVDs (unlike originally announced). "
sigh... So since how long do we know that you actually need an add-on to play DVD on the Wii?
And they also did an episode on the Sony PSP back then... and I think they glorified it even more than what they did with the Wii... but that's not the point of the episode anyway...
... are we going to see the first case of a kid getting expelled for playing tag...??
"Dear parents,
It has come to our attention that your child has recently taken part willfully in what the kids call a "game of tag", which as you might now is now banned from our school as a very violent and dangerous activity. We are very concerned about little Billy's behaviour, as he seemed to enjoy running around and performing near collision stunts with other mischievous children. We had at least 4 bad cases of collision last year due to tag alone and this got to stop, so we have no choice to kick your kid out of school as an exemplary measure. We recommend that you pay attention to your child activities as they might involve other violent things like touch football, hide and seek or, god help us, playing doctor with the little girl next door.
Yours etc..
A very concerned principal"
Bleh... wrong solutions to problems that doesn't even exist..
Come on! Real Time Weapon Changing ought to take a whole lot of ressources... that's a couple of Gigs right there...
Cliff Burton...
You're completely crazy! I played WoW a lot and I have yet to... Oh shit... papercut! REJUVENATION!!! REJUVENATION!!!! AAHRG
No I think his point was to mod you down because you are not making any sense at all...
That would be roughly 137 billion football fields to use a very conventional mean of measurement.
I think the problem have been pointed out already and resides in the justification itself: "I'm for freedom of speech and the first amendment, but we have to protect children from.... " In the name of the children we demand either: a) more legislation in the quest for ethics which inevitably results in a loss of liberty of thinking or b) more censorship in the name of the freedom of speech. This is not very different from saying: "I'm for freedom of speech, but there's this book here which talks about communism and we must protect democracy! We can't allow people to read that!" or how about a book which says god doesn't exist, i'm all for freedom of speech you know, but if my child where to read somewhere that there is no god, think of the damage that could do! Inquisition used to use the same kind of arguments to burn books and people. I'm sure they used the save the children argument in those days also. Rating games is as efficient as rating movies or music, shich is close to none. Children will still play them, maybe even more because of the attactiveness of the forbidden. It's censorship disguised as a benevolent measure to better society. State never should decide what you should see or read, that only leads to state deciding what you should think or vote.