Why? Do the spammers expect more people to fall for it now?
"YOU ARE A VIAGvRA STOCK WINNER FOR YOUR MIRACLE WEIGHT L0SS GIRL TO BE HAPPY"
"Ha, as if I would fall for that."
"Please call Vicky at this number to claim your prize. spendtrift oleaginous potvaliant"
"Oh, it's a PHONE NUMBER!! This changes everything, weight loss here I come!"
?
After Futurama died, I tried to fill the void by watching excessive amounts of The Simpsons. Now I don't know if I can watch Futurama again without being confused by the absence of Homer.
Live in space? And miss out on the Big Disaster!? I've waited all my life to see a real life two-headed brahmin cow and chill with the mutants! I'm going to build a Water Chip and make millions and millions of... whatever the currency of the post-apocalypse is. (Pints of drinking water?)
The Death Railway may not have been mistakenly engineered in itself but if 116000 people died while building it then it's a safe bet something was less than optimal about its circumstances.
Other than that, those medicine bottle lids that kids aren't supposed to be able to open are the engineering of doom.
"It is copyright that finances creativity in film, videogames, music and other culture."
Funny, I have observed that pretty much all my favorite creators of film, videogames and music, have in common that they don't really care that much when people infringe a bit on their copyrights.
Although we're on the way there, Sweden is still pretty far from the level of governmental hypocrisy the US is at. I don't think that TPB have anything to fear here, because this has been waiting to happen and they have probably made quite sure not to keep anything compromising on the servers.
I hope they start drilling into the moon, and discover it's actually a big egg with a doomsday chicken inside. (I just know that someone has already made a movie based on this... But I haven't seen it.)
It's hardly Apple's fault that 9 out of 10 people who are going to view these ads, see Mac OS-running Apple-manufactured personal computers as "Macs" and Windows-running non-Apple-manufactured personal computers as "PCs".
And it's even hardlier a good reason to think less of the computer =P
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Hooray! This was a great game, I still play the Amiga version from time to time. I wish Flashback would be released in the same way. Who has the rights to it? I guess the original company is long gone.
The missing link has been everywhere recently. It seems they find the missing link at least once a week, judging by/. articles. This must be where all the missing links go when a poorly wikified Wikipedia article is wikified.
SMB "can" be finished in 15 minutes - but for most people who play it for the fun of it and not aiming to finish it in 15 minutes, it lasts quite a while =)
As for getting better at gaming, I think it's precisely the other way around - games I could beat when I was 9 seem impossible now. Most people I know feel the same way. Modern games on the other hand are always too easy. It seems more likely that our gaming skills are gradually corroded by playing modern and unchallenging games... I wonder if there's been any scientific studies done about this? =)
Could it have anything to do with the fact that modern games SUCK!? Honestly, I call myself a hardcore gamer, I've owned and still own every console in the book and I've loved playing games since before I could speak - there used to be some great games. Once upon a time, games were mainly made by people who were fulfilling their childhood dreams of becoming game programmers. (Well, those and obsessive-compulsive Japanese who are almost as good at it.) Nowadays you can be educated into the game industry by the school system. Gaming companies have hundreds of people working on their games and only five of them at best are fulfilling their childhood dreams of becoming game programmers. The others are fulfilling their teenage dreams of swimming in a tub filled with hundred dollar bills.
As time goes by, this is what happens to games:
The graphics improve - nobody knows quite why, because still today many people play and love games that don't have bleeding edge graphics, and extremely few games actually need modern graphics to be fun.
The budgets increase - which obviously doesn't help.
The games become shorter - I've played Nethack for years without ascending, when I was a kid it took me weeks or months to finish Super Mario or Maniac Mansion. Today I have yet to see a game I don't play through in a day or two.
The games become easier - see above. The puzzles in adventure games are becoming simpler by the minute. (By the way, what happened to the LucasArts-type adventure games? They were more fun than a barrel of Roquefort and they sold like water int he desert, why doesn't anyone make them anymore?)
The games become more similar to each other - because everyone is now 99% about the profit and 1% about fulfilling the childhood dream, instead of inventing fun stuff, people look at what other games sell and why - and copy it into their own games. The result is that with the occasional exception, most games are just gray mindless clones of each other.
The games suck more and more.
I could count the number of really good games released in the psat five years on one hand. But what I wonder is what will break the circle and when. I can't wait to play some really good games again. Someone please hear me.
But honestly. Apple sent out an e-mail to some members of the press saying "we'll release new products on Tuesday." If that's over-hyping, I'm a blare. That's not even a noun.
There's nothing to say that faults in the voting machines were purposeful, nor that faulty voting machines would have changed the outcome of the election.
Except the eight million discrepancy between the election result and the exit polls, the fact that a Republican victory is in the financial interest of the manufacturers of the machines, the fact that several programmers behind the software in the machines are convicted computer fraudsters, the many security experts who have found the software to be significantly insecure... to name very few things.
There may not be anything in this particular article to say that there was tampering going on or that the election result is wrong, but the article is one drop of water in a flood of reports concerning errors, deliberate as well as accidental, in the election.
I actually liked the Häxbox grizzly. Not only do I like it - I think it's the best video game controller I've ever held. It's the one thing out of Microsoft that didn't suck at all. But clearly nobody anywhere agrees with me, and I think I might like it because
1) I have vowed to never buy any game that's not from Bungie and so I only play Halo and Halo 2 on my Häxbox, and Bungie are the kings and queens of control scheme design. I believe that they could design a functioning control scheme for any controller, no matter how stupidly designed it was.
2) My hands are enormous. Every controller I've ever used has been really difficult for me to hold because they're all too small. I can't use modern cell phones, either.
Thats means duken nuken forever is going to be the perfect game.
If spending time on something automagically made it better or more ready...
(I think the end of the world is quite overdue though, will it live up to the hype?)
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What a sharp wit.
Groan.
Why? Do the spammers expect more people to fall for it now?
"YOU ARE A VIAGvRA STOCK WINNER FOR YOUR MIRACLE WEIGHT L0SS GIRL TO BE HAPPY"
"Ha, as if I would fall for that."
"Please call Vicky at this number to claim your prize. spendtrift oleaginous potvaliant"
"Oh, it's a PHONE NUMBER!! This changes everything, weight loss here I come!"
?
The Google Earth GUI was one of the most horrible things this monitor has ever displayed, and I've had goatse as my start page.
Crap, that didn't come out right at all.
(7) Old enough to have worked on a system with a 5MB hard disk.
You had hard drives!? My system had one 800KB floppy drive...
After Futurama died, I tried to fill the void by watching excessive amounts of The Simpsons. Now I don't know if I can watch Futurama again without being confused by the absence of Homer.
Live in space? And miss out on the Big Disaster!? I've waited all my life to see a real life two-headed brahmin cow and chill with the mutants! I'm going to build a Water Chip and make millions and millions of... whatever the currency of the post-apocalypse is. (Pints of drinking water?)
I for one welcome our old literary overlords back.
People don't kill people, killers with guns kill people. Pirates with torrent files infringe copyright.
The Death Railway may not have been mistakenly engineered in itself but if 116000 people died while building it then it's a safe bet something was less than optimal about its circumstances.
Other than that, those medicine bottle lids that kids aren't supposed to be able to open are the engineering of doom.
"It is copyright that finances creativity in film, videogames, music and other culture."
Funny, I have observed that pretty much all my favorite creators of film, videogames and music, have in common that they don't really care that much when people infringe a bit on their copyrights.
Although we're on the way there, Sweden is still pretty far from the level of governmental hypocrisy the US is at. I don't think that TPB have anything to fear here, because this has been waiting to happen and they have probably made quite sure not to keep anything compromising on the servers.
Sweet! A new celestial body to ravage!
I hope they start drilling into the moon, and discover it's actually a big egg with a doomsday chicken inside. (I just know that someone has already made a movie based on this... But I haven't seen it.)
It's hardly Apple's fault that 9 out of 10 people who are going to view these ads, see Mac OS-running Apple-manufactured personal computers as "Macs" and Windows-running non-Apple-manufactured personal computers as "PCs".
And it's even hardlier a good reason to think less of the computer =P
Hooray! This was a great game, I still play the Amiga version from time to time. I wish Flashback would be released in the same way. Who has the rights to it? I guess the original company is long gone.
The missing link has been everywhere recently. It seems they find the missing link at least once a week, judging by /. articles. This must be where all the missing links go when a poorly wikified Wikipedia article is wikified.
SMB "can" be finished in 15 minutes - but for most people who play it for the fun of it and not aiming to finish it in 15 minutes, it lasts quite a while =)
As for getting better at gaming, I think it's precisely the other way around - games I could beat when I was 9 seem impossible now. Most people I know feel the same way. Modern games on the other hand are always too easy. It seems more likely that our gaming skills are gradually corroded by playing modern and unchallenging games... I wonder if there's been any scientific studies done about this? =)
As time goes by, this is what happens to games:
I could count the number of really good games released in the psat five years on one hand. But what I wonder is what will break the circle and when. I can't wait to play some really good games again. Someone please hear me.
Wasn't the missing link found quite a while ago? I think I read about it over at this site...
In other breaking news, smoking may cause cancer!
But honestly. Apple sent out an e-mail to some members of the press saying "we'll release new products on Tuesday." If that's over-hyping, I'm a blare. That's not even a noun.
For the love of God do not become responsible for Disney's products.
For those of us too lazy^H^H^H^Hbusy to read the article... what's this got to do with pornography...?
Except the eight million discrepancy between the election result and the exit polls, the fact that a Republican victory is in the financial interest of the manufacturers of the machines, the fact that several programmers behind the software in the machines are convicted computer fraudsters, the many security experts who have found the software to be significantly insecure... to name very few things.
There may not be anything in this particular article to say that there was tampering going on or that the election result is wrong, but the article is one drop of water in a flood of reports concerning errors, deliberate as well as accidental, in the election.
Not that it matters.
1) I have vowed to never buy any game that's not from Bungie and so I only play Halo and Halo 2 on my Häxbox, and Bungie are the kings and queens of control scheme design. I believe that they could design a functioning control scheme for any controller, no matter how stupidly designed it was.
2) My hands are enormous. Every controller I've ever used has been really difficult for me to hold because they're all too small. I can't use modern cell phones, either.
If spending time on something automagically made it better or more ready...
(I think the end of the world is quite overdue though, will it live up to the hype?)