There's nothing wrong with electronic music, which has been done for about 50-60 years now, so it's not like it was invented two years ago or something. Tangerine Dream's stuff from the early seventies to the eighties is some of my favorite music (I have 11 albums and one 5-disc compilation so far).
Why isn't he qualified to talk about immigration? If he isn't, then who is? I have noticed time and time again that formal education doesn't often correlate with intelligence or knowledge.
I was watching these on my living room TV as they were being webcast, and I kind of realized something about watching games or sports on TV -- they are only truly interesting if you know enough about the game to play it yourself.
I think this applies to most things. I rarely watch speedruns of games I've never played. As for sports, I can watch boxing or judo because I practise both so I know what's going on and I can appreciate it. But something like football or ice hockey just bores me to tears.
Well personally I'm not very keen on the idea of someone using a light to temporarily/maybe not so temporarily blind my eyes. They already have a whole bunch of non-lethal weapons, so why is this needed?
If you know the software is working incorrectly (which you do, if you get $10 credit for inserting $1), and you use that fact to exploit the machine for your financial gain at the expense of the casino, then you do bear responsibility for their loss.
It's the casino's own fucking problem if their software isn't working.
Quoting me is not an argument. I can easily do the same:
"That's a bigoted statement, and shows that you're a closed-minded fool."
That's a gay statement, and shows that you like to take it in the poop hole.
You probably have no idea what I'm talking about. You're just suffering from a typical liberal kneejerk reaction. An automated, conditioned response to stimulus.
What the fuck is this "I want innovation in games" whining that's been going on for years and years now? It's getting very annoying. Why does everyone want innovation for innovation's sake? Do you even know what you want, or are you just repeating the popular catchphrase of the moment? Even if developers do release innovative or different games, people still keep repeating "moar inovation plz" like some kind of fucking parrots. A game doesn't need to be innovative in order to be fun.
This is pretty much like the "more gameplay, less graphics" bullshit that people keep spouting. They must be completely out of the gaming loop since they keep demanding something that's been around for decades.
Note to moderators: no, this isn't a "troll" or a "flamebait." If you don't know what trolling and flamebaiting are, leave moderating to people who actually know what the fuck they're doing.
I was initially going to wait for the 65 nm version, but after it was first mentioned in 2006 I hadn't heard anything since. So I got a 360 last Wednesday. Now the 65 nm version is coming, but it probably won't hit Europe until 2008. Even if I had known when it's going to come (or when I suspect it's going to come), I wouldn't have waited.
This shouldn't be a problem to most people, since most people can easily afford a new 360.
However, if you do have an HD set, especially if it's 1080p, I can't see how the PS3 isn't the best deal.
What if the PS3 doesn't have games that I like playing? I don't understand why some people buy an expensive console and an even more expensive 1080p HDTV just so they can look at pretty graphics.
I'll concede that suicide bombings may be linked to a lack of sex, but suicide bombings are also an instrument of Jihad. I don't know if they're trying to make people think that Islamic terrorism is all about sexual frustration or if they're only talking about suicide bombing.
What's very politically incorrect is this:
Across all societies, polygyny makes men violent, increasing crimes such as murder and rape, even after controlling for such obvious factors as economic development, economic inequality, population density, the level of democracy, and political factors in the region.
The fact that Muslims commit a dizzying amount of rapes is something that you can't say out loud, even if you have statistics to back it up. They do it because it's in their cultural nature to do so. There's nothing mysterious or irrational about that, but people are ready to believe that black is white and night is day (but only when it's convinient to do so) if it allows them to keep clinging to their delusions. So when somebody claims that Muslim immigrants in Europe commit a disproportionate amount of rapes, people will simply claim that culture just cannot influence your behavior in a negative way. We're all equally likely to commit rape (I suppose everyone is also equally likely to commit seppuku or rape babies to cure AIDS). But white people? We're all genetically predisposed to slave trading, crusading, genociding and child molesting.
You want a diverse culture in your development teams. Having lived both in Canada and the US, Canada values diverse culture more. The US is the "melting pot" (your uniqueness will be added to our own). Canada has "multiculturalism" (which admittedly has its own problems).
Problems? Multiculturalism is a trainwreck that will consume and destroy any country it touches. The "melting pot" style of the US is much better.
I get that, but it's not precisely what I meant (thanks for the informative reply though). I got the impression from the GP that, according to him, the visible light spectrum is determined by where you are. That is, if you went to Mars then the spectrum would change.
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There's nothing wrong with electronic music, which has been done for about 50-60 years now, so it's not like it was invented two years ago or something. Tangerine Dream's stuff from the early seventies to the eighties is some of my favorite music (I have 11 albums and one 5-disc compilation so far).
A sticky end, you say?
Character customization is one of the greatest things about RPGs. Having a character with visible scars sounds cool to me.
Why isn't he qualified to talk about immigration? If he isn't, then who is? I have noticed time and time again that formal education doesn't often correlate with intelligence or knowledge.
Except Ebert doesn't quite understand the nature and limitations of interactivity in video games, so his argument is not very good.
I think this applies to most things. I rarely watch speedruns of games I've never played. As for sports, I can watch boxing or judo because I practise both so I know what's going on and I can appreciate it. But something like football or ice hockey just bores me to tears.
Well personally I'm not very keen on the idea of someone using a light to temporarily/maybe not so temporarily blind my eyes. They already have a whole bunch of non-lethal weapons, so why is this needed?
The first System Shock and Thief 2 are excellent as well.
It's the casino's own fucking problem if their software isn't working.
I didn't notice any bald space marines in shiny corridors when I was playing R6 Vegas. Maybe you're thinking of the Doom 3 engine.
Since this was modded troll, does that mean Slashdot supports viruses and malware?
I'll watch anything with Jade Raymond in it.
The Gamespot demo reveals a lot of interesting stuff about the game.
Quoting me is not an argument. I can easily do the same:
"That's a bigoted statement, and shows that you're a closed-minded fool."
That's a gay statement, and shows that you like to take it in the poop hole.
You probably have no idea what I'm talking about. You're just suffering from a typical liberal kneejerk reaction. An automated, conditioned response to stimulus.
What the fuck is this "I want innovation in games" whining that's been going on for years and years now? It's getting very annoying. Why does everyone want innovation for innovation's sake? Do you even know what you want, or are you just repeating the popular catchphrase of the moment? Even if developers do release innovative or different games, people still keep repeating "moar inovation plz" like some kind of fucking parrots. A game doesn't need to be innovative in order to be fun.
This is pretty much like the "more gameplay, less graphics" bullshit that people keep spouting. They must be completely out of the gaming loop since they keep demanding something that's been around for decades.
Note to moderators: no, this isn't a "troll" or a "flamebait." If you don't know what trolling and flamebaiting are, leave moderating to people who actually know what the fuck they're doing.
I was initially going to wait for the 65 nm version, but after it was first mentioned in 2006 I hadn't heard anything since. So I got a 360 last Wednesday. Now the 65 nm version is coming, but it probably won't hit Europe until 2008. Even if I had known when it's going to come (or when I suspect it's going to come), I wouldn't have waited.
This shouldn't be a problem to most people, since most people can easily afford a new 360.
What if the PS3 doesn't have games that I like playing? I don't understand why some people buy an expensive console and an even more expensive 1080p HDTV just so they can look at pretty graphics.
Uh, no I'm not. Got any actual arguments to back up your ludicrous accusation?
What's very politically incorrect is this:
The fact that Muslims commit a dizzying amount of rapes is something that you can't say out loud, even if you have statistics to back it up. They do it because it's in their cultural nature to do so. There's nothing mysterious or irrational about that, but people are ready to believe that black is white and night is day (but only when it's convinient to do so) if it allows them to keep clinging to their delusions. So when somebody claims that Muslim immigrants in Europe commit a disproportionate amount of rapes, people will simply claim that culture just cannot influence your behavior in a negative way. We're all equally likely to commit rape (I suppose everyone is also equally likely to commit seppuku or rape babies to cure AIDS). But white people? We're all genetically predisposed to slave trading, crusading, genociding and child molesting.
The failure rate of the 360 is so high that user error cannot explain it. How many times does this need to be repeated?
It's as simple as this: if the Wii/PS3/360 has games that appeal to you, buy it. If it doesn't, don't buy it.
Problems? Multiculturalism is a trainwreck that will consume and destroy any country it touches. The "melting pot" style of the US is much better.
Well good luck taking on the Secret Service, military and police.
I get that, but it's not precisely what I meant (thanks for the informative reply though). I got the impression from the GP that, according to him, the visible light spectrum is determined by where you are. That is, if you went to Mars then the spectrum would change.
Isn't visible light spectrum determined by your eyes, not by the environment? Some animals and insects can see in infrared and ultraviolet, I believe.
This does not qualify as cyberbullying or "intimidation." Don't be a drama queen.