I've bought two strategy guides, World of Warcraft and Homeworld. And I think my copy of the Diablo Battle Chest came with a free Diablo II guide, but I didn't buy it for the guide.
Anyway, the Homeworld one was invaluable as any first-time Homeworld player can tell you. The WOW one I barely ever looked at... the only page I had bookmarked was the one showing the Griffon routes, and even that one got outdated via patches very quickly.
Xbox Live is kind of bringing the score competitions back with their "accomplishments" system and the fact that many games are ranked on Live by... score. (For instance, I was playing Survival mode on Dead or Alive 4 for the first time and I was pleasantly surprised that the game automatically uploaded my score to Live and showed me my ranking.)
If your C++ compiler knows there's a missing semi-colon, can't it just add the semi-colon in?
Well... no. It doesn't know what the hell your code is trying to do, and therefore it doesn't know where the missing semi-colon is supposed to go, exactly.
Heck, I just scanned all the comments, and I *still* don't know what OSL or TDS is. Usually some helpful commenter will post definitions, or at least links, but this topic is dry... I'm thinking it has something to do with downloading Linux distributions?
How old is he? If you reach the age of 25 without ever using credit, you get an automatic A (is that 800 pts?) credit rating. That's how it worked for me, and that's how I was able to buy my house.
There's also more than a little positive feedback happening, as Slashdot is probably the most pro-Nintendo gaming forums on the entire internet, unless Nintendo.com happens to have forums.
For the record, the only Zelda game I could get into was Zelda II. Zelda I, and maybe I'm a total wuss, didn't ramp up the difficulty smoothly... it seemed like I was doing pretty good then I get to a part and bam, dead, bam, dead. (Of course the end castle in Zelda II is about the hardest thing EVER, but other than that it was good.)
Apple's been doing that for as long as MacOS has existed. Konfabulator, hell, remember Superclock? Remember After Dark?
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The point I was making is that a top 100 list made in the US would have a wide selections of genres represented, not a single one dominating utterly like in that list. I agree with you about Doom, as a kid who played both Doom and Marathon through in the same year, I think Doom is vastly over-rated.
I wouldn't say what's up with my American-centric-ness, I'd say what the hell's up with the game industry's Japan-centric-ness? I think Microsoft has the right position on this issue, personally. About time there was an American company doing some gaming again.
It drives me nuts that the Director would choose the same title as another recent excellent movie, albeit one with a vastly different premis and plot. It confuses the hell out of me.
There's actually a lot of movies like that. Try, for instance, "12 Monkeys" or "I, Robot." Or "Terminator" and "Terminator 2." Or "The Abyss." (I haven't seen "Terminator 3" yet.) Also notice how women in action movies are frequently pilots or other non-combat roles, like in "Aliens" and "Starship Troopers." (Given, both of those movies also had actual female soldiers, but anyway.)
Come to think of it, do you even WATCH movies? I think your concerns are more-than-addressed by Hollywood.
I don't get his example. What's wrong with King Kong? According to the IMDB business page, it's made $519 million on a budget of $207 million. Uh, I dunno about George Lucas, but I'd sure as hell take that investment! (And this is before the bulk of the DVD sales, and not counting the various merchandising deals.)
Lucas needs to realize that the original Star Wars trilogy were flukes... never before, and never since, have such cheaply-made movies (no offense to fans, but the budgets were relatively low) had such huge returns at the box office.
Grievous got precious little screen time, he should have been the villian in Episode 2 instead of Dooku. In fact, Dooku should have been entirely written-out so that Grievous could take his place. That guy was bad-ass! He had 4 freakin' hands, and weird hula-hoop motorcycle, and when attacked by Jedi he SMASHED THE WINDOW and depressurized the bridge of the ship! Then crawled on the hull back in an airlock! BAD-FUCKING-ASS!
Alas, he died far too quick. He was the only half-decent villian in the entire set of prequels.
Not paying $8 to replace something that I can get for free, either from the official Mac client or from the leading open source Mac client. No offense to whoever wrote iChatter, but I hope Apple sees the light and builds this feature in, making it obsolete.
If it weren't for that one killer feature, I'd definitely switch to iChat, no questions asked.
The NES was actually technically better than the Atari 7800 with a better game selection. The SNES, again, was technically better than the Genesis and had an equally good game selection. (Jurassic Park was 10 times better on Genesis than SNES for some reason; Genesis Mortal Kombat had the blood, etc.)
But the Nintendo 64 isn't better than the Playstation technically, and it doesn't have a better collection of games. The Gamecube is slightly better than the PS2 technically, but has a crappy selection of games... AND the Xbox slaughters it technically with a decent number of great games there, as well.
So in short, the second half of your little comparison there is crap. The Nintendo 64 doesn't beat the Playstation, and the Gamecube doesn't edge out the PS2 or the Xbox. At least IMO.
I have a 360 and, to be fair, mine's not one of the first-out-of-the-gate but it's the second shipment, so maybe problems were fixed.
But so far I have no complaints whatsoever except one: They made the controller a bit too small, and my hands get sore a LOT quicker than the controller-S on regular Xbox, especially during Dead or Alive 4. Also, removal of the white button really screwed me up in Halo 2 because I forgot how to turn on my radio and talk to teammates.;) (FYI, you can use Up on the d-pad, or hit the right shoulder button to talk, if you had the same problem I had.)
When Logitech does their usual controller magic and makes a great 360 controller, I'll have no complaints.
I missed one by 5 minutes at a Target because I made the mistake to try Fred Meyer first. If I'd have tried Target first, I'd have been able to get one. Or woken up 10 minutes earlier.
Oh well.
Note that I woke up at 5:30 AM on launch day and I still only missed it by 5 minutes. If I had *really* wanted one, and had gotten there at midnight or 2:00 or so, I'd have been a shoe-in at either Fred Meyer or Target. So yes, I agree with your advice: skip the Best Buys, go to the large department stores that have decent electronics sections. Best Buy might have had 70 to sell, but they also had 200 people in line... Target and Best Buy had 34 to sell and 40 people in line (by opening time.)
1) You're saying "bugger off" to a company that has been providing a solid, reliable, and useful service for free for almost a decade now. "Damn you jerkwads! Your free services disgust me!" They've been offering the TOC protocol, for free to any third-party developer for almost as long as AIM has existed. What the hell more could they do to make you happy? Free blow jobs? (Compare to MSN which is only there to steal mindshare from AIM and doesn't freakin' work anyway, it has maybe a 95% uptime during a good month.)
2) AIM's library probably has file transfer code that actually works unlike whatever's in libgaim.
The official AIM client can read out incoming IMs using text-to-speech. Has been able to since version, I dunno, 2.something I think. iChat can't and never has been able to. That's the "killer feature" for me. (So happens that Adium developers added in that feature a few releases ago, so now I'm using Adium. But just wanted to point out that iChat isn't the end-all-be-all of AIM clients on Mac.)
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That's pathetic. Not a single FPS on the list? Only two PC games that I can see (Wizardry and SimCity?) Only a two sports games I noticed (Gran Tourismo 4 Super Family Fun Baseball Pro Gold Happy or whatever.) Do they sell video game consoles over there as "RPG Machines?" or something?
Dude, it's The Sun. That's like complaining that the Weekly World News got the color of Bat Boy's toupee wrong... just be glad the story isn't ENTIRELY bullshit and move on.
Just FYI, *all* the buttons on the OG Xbox controller (except White and Black) are analog. That makes...
2 analog sticks (4 floats) 4 analog face buttons (4 floats) 2 analog triggers (2 floats)
For a total of 10. Now, I'm not going to claim that the analog face buttons can be used easily as analog buttons (since they don't move far enough), but they *are* analog regardless.
Is there a competing service to Click-N-Run? I was under the impression that Linspire was the only one out there providing that service to Linux users...
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I've bought two strategy guides, World of Warcraft and Homeworld. And I think my copy of the Diablo Battle Chest came with a free Diablo II guide, but I didn't buy it for the guide.
Anyway, the Homeworld one was invaluable as any first-time Homeworld player can tell you. The WOW one I barely ever looked at... the only page I had bookmarked was the one showing the Griffon routes, and even that one got outdated via patches very quickly.
Xbox Live is kind of bringing the score competitions back with their "accomplishments" system and the fact that many games are ranked on Live by... score. (For instance, I was playing Survival mode on Dead or Alive 4 for the first time and I was pleasantly surprised that the game automatically uploaded my score to Live and showed me my ranking.)
If your C++ compiler knows there's a missing semi-colon, can't it just add the semi-colon in?
Well... no. It doesn't know what the hell your code is trying to do, and therefore it doesn't know where the missing semi-colon is supposed to go, exactly.
So the blame is on the credit card companies giving out application forms and *not* Joe Debtor filling out and sending back the forms?
Heck, I just scanned all the comments, and I *still* don't know what OSL or TDS is. Usually some helpful commenter will post definitions, or at least links, but this topic is dry... I'm thinking it has something to do with downloading Linux distributions?
How old is he? If you reach the age of 25 without ever using credit, you get an automatic A (is that 800 pts?) credit rating. That's how it worked for me, and that's how I was able to buy my house.
There's also more than a little positive feedback happening, as Slashdot is probably the most pro-Nintendo gaming forums on the entire internet, unless Nintendo.com happens to have forums.
For the record, the only Zelda game I could get into was Zelda II. Zelda I, and maybe I'm a total wuss, didn't ramp up the difficulty smoothly... it seemed like I was doing pretty good then I get to a part and bam, dead, bam, dead. (Of course the end castle in Zelda II is about the hardest thing EVER, but other than that it was good.)
Apple's been doing that for as long as MacOS has existed. Konfabulator, hell, remember Superclock? Remember After Dark?
The point I was making is that a top 100 list made in the US would have a wide selections of genres represented, not a single one dominating utterly like in that list. I agree with you about Doom, as a kid who played both Doom and Marathon through in the same year, I think Doom is vastly over-rated.
I wouldn't say what's up with my American-centric-ness, I'd say what the hell's up with the game industry's Japan-centric-ness? I think Microsoft has the right position on this issue, personally. About time there was an American company doing some gaming again.
God, every time I hear about the new movie named Crash, I think of the 1996 movie also named Crash which had a VERY different plotline:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/
It drives me nuts that the Director would choose the same title as another recent excellent movie, albeit one with a vastly different premis and plot. It confuses the hell out of me.
There's actually a lot of movies like that. Try, for instance, "12 Monkeys" or "I, Robot." Or "Terminator" and "Terminator 2." Or "The Abyss." (I haven't seen "Terminator 3" yet.) Also notice how women in action movies are frequently pilots or other non-combat roles, like in "Aliens" and "Starship Troopers." (Given, both of those movies also had actual female soldiers, but anyway.)
Come to think of it, do you even WATCH movies? I think your concerns are more-than-addressed by Hollywood.
I don't get his example. What's wrong with King Kong? According to the IMDB business page, it's made $519 million on a budget of $207 million. Uh, I dunno about George Lucas, but I'd sure as hell take that investment! (And this is before the bulk of the DVD sales, and not counting the various merchandising deals.)
Lucas needs to realize that the original Star Wars trilogy were flukes... never before, and never since, have such cheaply-made movies (no offense to fans, but the budgets were relatively low) had such huge returns at the box office.
Grievous got precious little screen time, he should have been the villian in Episode 2 instead of Dooku. In fact, Dooku should have been entirely written-out so that Grievous could take his place. That guy was bad-ass! He had 4 freakin' hands, and weird hula-hoop motorcycle, and when attacked by Jedi he SMASHED THE WINDOW and depressurized the bridge of the ship! Then crawled on the hull back in an airlock! BAD-FUCKING-ASS!
Alas, he died far too quick. He was the only half-decent villian in the entire set of prequels.
Not paying $8 to replace something that I can get for free, either from the official Mac client or from the leading open source Mac client. No offense to whoever wrote iChatter, but I hope Apple sees the light and builds this feature in, making it obsolete.
If it weren't for that one killer feature, I'd definitely switch to iChat, no questions asked.
There's a few problems with your analysis.
The NES was actually technically better than the Atari 7800 with a better game selection. The SNES, again, was technically better than the Genesis and had an equally good game selection. (Jurassic Park was 10 times better on Genesis than SNES for some reason; Genesis Mortal Kombat had the blood, etc.)
But the Nintendo 64 isn't better than the Playstation technically, and it doesn't have a better collection of games. The Gamecube is slightly better than the PS2 technically, but has a crappy selection of games... AND the Xbox slaughters it technically with a decent number of great games there, as well.
So in short, the second half of your little comparison there is crap. The Nintendo 64 doesn't beat the Playstation, and the Gamecube doesn't edge out the PS2 or the Xbox. At least IMO.
I have a 360 and, to be fair, mine's not one of the first-out-of-the-gate but it's the second shipment, so maybe problems were fixed.
;) (FYI, you can use Up on the d-pad, or hit the right shoulder button to talk, if you had the same problem I had.)
But so far I have no complaints whatsoever except one: They made the controller a bit too small, and my hands get sore a LOT quicker than the controller-S on regular Xbox, especially during Dead or Alive 4. Also, removal of the white button really screwed me up in Halo 2 because I forgot how to turn on my radio and talk to teammates.
When Logitech does their usual controller magic and makes a great 360 controller, I'll have no complaints.
I missed one by 5 minutes at a Target because I made the mistake to try Fred Meyer first. If I'd have tried Target first, I'd have been able to get one. Or woken up 10 minutes earlier.
Oh well.
Note that I woke up at 5:30 AM on launch day and I still only missed it by 5 minutes. If I had *really* wanted one, and had gotten there at midnight or 2:00 or so, I'd have been a shoe-in at either Fred Meyer or Target. So yes, I agree with your advice: skip the Best Buys, go to the large department stores that have decent electronics sections. Best Buy might have had 70 to sell, but they also had 200 people in line... Target and Best Buy had 34 to sell and 40 people in line (by opening time.)
Uh.
1) You're saying "bugger off" to a company that has been providing a solid, reliable, and useful service for free for almost a decade now. "Damn you jerkwads! Your free services disgust me!" They've been offering the TOC protocol, for free to any third-party developer for almost as long as AIM has existed. What the hell more could they do to make you happy? Free blow jobs? (Compare to MSN which is only there to steal mindshare from AIM and doesn't freakin' work anyway, it has maybe a 95% uptime during a good month.)
2) AIM's library probably has file transfer code that actually works unlike whatever's in libgaim.
The official AIM client can read out incoming IMs using text-to-speech. Has been able to since version, I dunno, 2.something I think. iChat can't and never has been able to. That's the "killer feature" for me. (So happens that Adium developers added in that feature a few releases ago, so now I'm using Adium. But just wanted to point out that iChat isn't the end-all-be-all of AIM clients on Mac.)
That's pathetic. Not a single FPS on the list? Only two PC games that I can see (Wizardry and SimCity?) Only a two sports games I noticed (Gran Tourismo 4 Super Family Fun Baseball Pro Gold Happy or whatever.) Do they sell video game consoles over there as "RPG Machines?" or something?
Dude, it's The Sun. That's like complaining that the Weekly World News got the color of Bat Boy's toupee wrong... just be glad the story isn't ENTIRELY bullshit and move on.
Maybe you should move into the Unibomber's hut... I hear the rent is very reasonable.
Some folks of course were happy, but happy people on the internet are WEIRD EXCEPTIONS. The internet is fueled solely by
Your sig is driving me crazy with suspense. How does it end!? By what!?
Just FYI, *all* the buttons on the OG Xbox controller (except White and Black) are analog. That makes...
2 analog sticks (4 floats)
4 analog face buttons (4 floats)
2 analog triggers (2 floats)
For a total of 10. Now, I'm not going to claim that the analog face buttons can be used easily as analog buttons (since they don't move far enough), but they *are* analog regardless.
Is there a competing service to Click-N-Run? I was under the impression that Linspire was the only one out there providing that service to Linux users...