I'm running Aurora, so I'm resigned to getting this shit pretty much first and worst, but major changes to display and function that I can't turn off by going into the options dialogue really get my goat.
Features like automatically centering single images on a dark grey background. I realize that's a photography thing, but it looks like shit when I'm fiddling with transparent images. And yes, I did find means to get rid of it (fucking with the browser's CSS defaults, or installing one of several addons) but it's still a Dilbert Knows Best addition.
More recently, a download button that can't be removed from the top bar, that automatically spawns a balloon listing of recent downloads. I wouldn't have given a damn but for that 'couldn't be removed' bit-- the widget actually vanished as soon as I opened the customization dialogue. Thank god they yanked it an update or two after it went in. Hopefully it will be easier to turn off the next time they trot it out.
I don't think there's seriously any way you could squeeze any of those stories into two and a half hours. Watchmen barely managed it, in my opinion, and that was with judicious editing and prior familiarity on my part.
Story elements notwithstanding, Preacher's sheer length and complexity would be better served by a cable TV series. In fact it was going to have one (and there are pics of the in-progress Arseface prosthetics on-line) but HBO canceled the project. Fables 'suffers' from the same problems: it's composed of big stories, with a big cast, and it really doesn't compress very well.
People make racist, idiotic, hate-mongering, and otherwise disgusting posts on Facebook all the time, and did so on Myspace when it was still a going concern. Anonymity isn't the issue, it's the perception that the Internet gives them a safe distance to hurl insults and spam from.
I like Metacritic. I consult it when I'm considering a new game on Steam, and I don't have gameplay footage or word of mouth to convince me otherwise. However, I don't use the aggregated score as anything other than an average.
There are links to all of the collated reviews. They're there so that you, the consumer, can perform your due diligence more easily. Personally, I like to scan the middling and bad reviews to get an idea of the kind of warts I should expect if I buy it. One reviewer's selling point may be a no-sale for me-- and I wouldn't know about it if I hadn't taken the opportunity to read it.
The metascore itself is handy at a glance, but using it as a final arbiter of worth and taste is a terrible idea. Just ask Obsidian.
They also go after an injunction on the competitor selling infringing hardware. If they manage to keep the case running long enough, their competitor's legal bills will be a fraction of what they've lost in sales. Apple profits.
That depends on how much of a pain international payments will be to make. I can't speak for other Canadians, but virtually the only times I use Paypal I'm paying for goods or services from the States.
I've been running multiple monitors since Windows 98's beyond half-assed support for the concept, and have three on my desk right now. Really, the only titles that benefit from these arrangements are extremely hard-core flight simulators (as noted elsewhere in the discussion) and the very occasional macro-scale real-time strategy game where there's a benefit to shoving all of your production and resource manipulation readouts to a separate screen.
For just about anything else, it's a silly little frippery-- sure, it might be cute to have a clan battle's K/D ratios on a separate screen, or an automap and inventory, but those are hardly quality of life breakthroughs. Like stereoscopic glasses and VR goggles, it's a solution in search of a problem.
For Games Workshop armies, it won't work unless you're just playing out of your basement. GW nerds are notoriously anal about the play-legality of models, and homegrown stuff certainly won't be welcome at store-based battle-tables or official tournament play sites.
Other outfits are wising up about the ludicrous expense of model warfare, at least. I've seen two Kickstarters, one which was basically rules for LEGO mecha combat, and another offering its own line of related minis at a fraction of regular costs.
And apart from tanks, most wargaming minis are fairly complicated 3D structures, and/or roughly an inch through their longest axis, which is probably a challenge for most consumer plastic extruders. At that point, you're probably better off ordering a bulk bag of meeples or a crate of old-fashioned army men for far less than fifty bucks.
The example given is ridiculous on its face. Biographical information can easily be faked-- a lot of the bots I've encountered swipe photos from Facebook and personals sites. Requiring a certain number of people to follow you, before you can... what? The only people this really hurts are newbies to the service. If you can automate creating an account, you can automate getting accounts to follow one another.
I saw them fairly often about five years ago, when I was working at the university bookstore. They had raffles-cum-newsletter signups with old-fashioned cards, and I was the poor schmuck who got to punch them into the database. Lots of FirstnameLastYearofbirth @hotmail and @yahoo, but very few gmail accounts.
I stopped using my hotmail account before Microsoft bought it, back when frames were still considered a bright idea. At this point my Gmail address is a magnet for spam and idiots using it to sign up for services, so I've moved to using my web host's e-mail service. I'd consider running my own server, if I didn't suspect that my ISP tries to prevent that sort of thing.
Not only were the characters terrible, the actors hated them too. There are filmed interviews with them just laughing and ripping on the characters and the awful plots-- Kate Mulgrew even wrote Janeway off as fundamentally insane because her motivations veered like a desert driver stuck in a snowstorm.
The summary read like shit. Incorrect shit, given that FJ has backed off and it's the site's lawyer who is suing The Oatmeal and the charities.
Further, dickwaving about post counts? Seriously? That's GameFAQs and Gaia Online-level stupid and does nothing to help you look good or him look bad. Try again. Better, don't.
Welcome to the underside of the Internet, where 'LOL' is a mating call for people too stupid to find their asses with both hands and a haptic overlay for Google Maps.
Replacement pictures will be up inside of a week, because FunnyJunk's userbase are a bunch of unfunny, entitled morons and they did the same damn thing the last time legal sabers were rattled.
If you do, I suggest EVGA. Lifetime warranty on the cards, and if they manage to send a lemon replacement out (mutter) they'll send a Fedex guy to your door to retrieve and replace it.
I got sick and tired of AMD/ATI back when Voodoo was still a pass-through board, and while their hardware has improved I'm never surprised to hear about bullshit with their drivers.
Many years ago, when I was still living with my parents, I intercepted what was probably a telemarketing call. The background babble was loud, like they were calling from one of those phone bleachers they set up for PBS donation drives.
Caller (in thick Indian accent): Hello, is Mrs. (Amazing mispronunciation of our surname) there?
Normally I would have just hung up, but something possessed me that day.
Me: Oh. I'm sorry, but she died last week.
Caller: (sound of bending over backward to apologize and get off the line).
A friend of mine got one that was even better, claiming to be collecting donations to support sufferers of a fairly uncommon disability. She's just happened to suffer from this disability all of her life, so she was quite interested in hearing about where she could sign up. Git hung up damn fast after that.
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...everything else starts to look like a foreign plug.
Features like automatically centering single images on a dark grey background. I realize that's a photography thing, but it looks like shit when I'm fiddling with transparent images. And yes, I did find means to get rid of it (fucking with the browser's CSS defaults, or installing one of several addons) but it's still a Dilbert Knows Best addition.
More recently, a download button that can't be removed from the top bar, that automatically spawns a balloon listing of recent downloads. I wouldn't have given a damn but for that 'couldn't be removed' bit-- the widget actually vanished as soon as I opened the customization dialogue. Thank god they yanked it an update or two after it went in. Hopefully it will be easier to turn off the next time they trot it out.
Oh! Got it, it was The Fly!
Yep, the old Krechet suit, designed for working on the moon. I'm pretty sure I saw video of someone donning one in Skylab once, too.
Story elements notwithstanding, Preacher's sheer length and complexity would be better served by a cable TV series. In fact it was going to have one (and there are pics of the in-progress Arseface prosthetics on-line) but HBO canceled the project. Fables 'suffers' from the same problems: it's composed of big stories, with a big cast, and it really doesn't compress very well.
Wasn't he already in a Spider-Man movie? *ducks*
Perish the thought. If we had Like buttons, our skills at clicking moderation drop-downs would tragically fade into history.
People make racist, idiotic, hate-mongering, and otherwise disgusting posts on Facebook all the time, and did so on Myspace when it was still a going concern. Anonymity isn't the issue, it's the perception that the Internet gives them a safe distance to hurl insults and spam from.
There are links to all of the collated reviews. They're there so that you, the consumer, can perform your due diligence more easily. Personally, I like to scan the middling and bad reviews to get an idea of the kind of warts I should expect if I buy it. One reviewer's selling point may be a no-sale for me-- and I wouldn't know about it if I hadn't taken the opportunity to read it.
The metascore itself is handy at a glance, but using it as a final arbiter of worth and taste is a terrible idea. Just ask Obsidian.
They also go after an injunction on the competitor selling infringing hardware. If they manage to keep the case running long enough, their competitor's legal bills will be a fraction of what they've lost in sales. Apple profits.
That depends on how much of a pain international payments will be to make. I can't speak for other Canadians, but virtually the only times I use Paypal I'm paying for goods or services from the States.
For just about anything else, it's a silly little frippery-- sure, it might be cute to have a clan battle's K/D ratios on a separate screen, or an automap and inventory, but those are hardly quality of life breakthroughs. Like stereoscopic glasses and VR goggles, it's a solution in search of a problem.
...until some scumbag with a sawzall realizes that there's expensive computer hardware inside those black boxes.
Other outfits are wising up about the ludicrous expense of model warfare, at least. I've seen two Kickstarters, one which was basically rules for LEGO mecha combat, and another offering its own line of related minis at a fraction of regular costs.
And apart from tanks, most wargaming minis are fairly complicated 3D structures, and/or roughly an inch through their longest axis, which is probably a challenge for most consumer plastic extruders. At that point, you're probably better off ordering a bulk bag of meeples or a crate of old-fashioned army men for far less than fifty bucks.
The example given is ridiculous on its face. Biographical information can easily be faked-- a lot of the bots I've encountered swipe photos from Facebook and personals sites. Requiring a certain number of people to follow you, before you can... what? The only people this really hurts are newbies to the service. If you can automate creating an account, you can automate getting accounts to follow one another.
I stopped using my hotmail account before Microsoft bought it, back when frames were still considered a bright idea. At this point my Gmail address is a magnet for spam and idiots using it to sign up for services, so I've moved to using my web host's e-mail service. I'd consider running my own server, if I didn't suspect that my ISP tries to prevent that sort of thing.
Not only were the characters terrible, the actors hated them too. There are filmed interviews with them just laughing and ripping on the characters and the awful plots-- Kate Mulgrew even wrote Janeway off as fundamentally insane because her motivations veered like a desert driver stuck in a snowstorm.
Further, dickwaving about post counts? Seriously? That's GameFAQs and Gaia Online-level stupid and does nothing to help you look good or him look bad. Try again. Better, don't.
Welcome to the underside of the Internet, where 'LOL' is a mating call for people too stupid to find their asses with both hands and a haptic overlay for Google Maps.
Replacement pictures will be up inside of a week, because FunnyJunk's userbase are a bunch of unfunny, entitled morons and they did the same damn thing the last time legal sabers were rattled.
Dude! I think I just heard everyone you know cry out in horror at the merest thought of being invited to your post-holiday slideshow.
I got sick and tired of AMD/ATI back when Voodoo was still a pass-through board, and while their hardware has improved I'm never surprised to hear about bullshit with their drivers.
Welp, looks like I've got the first murder lined up for Se7en^2.
Caller (in thick Indian accent): Hello, is Mrs. (Amazing mispronunciation of our surname) there?
Normally I would have just hung up, but something possessed me that day.
Me: Oh. I'm sorry, but she died last week.
Caller: (sound of bending over backward to apologize and get off the line).
A friend of mine got one that was even better, claiming to be collecting donations to support sufferers of a fairly uncommon disability. She's just happened to suffer from this disability all of her life, so she was quite interested in hearing about where she could sign up. Git hung up damn fast after that.
Yeah. I'm sure I echo the family of Henrietta Lacks when I say 'Fuck 'em.'