At the end of this game, they're going to reveal that Zelda's really just a disguised hedgehog. Then he'll go on to battle Sonic in later games, at least until they both band together to defeat Master Chief and Crash Bandicoot in a cart race.
Yeah, and here in we build our dikes 800' tall all around the entire country! And we embed flatscreen TVs in it so they aren't an eyesore. And our country has developed super instant freeze technology so when the water gets within 15 miles of the dikes, it's just instantly frozen! And the technology also makes angels fly and sing beautiful songs, and cute kittens fall from the sky!
Where the hell do you people come from? You know, the "holier than thou" Europeans? Go back there, your posts are annoying as all hell.
You had people all over the US talking about how third world uncivilized people deserved the tsunami.
Other people replying to this have been more polite, but I think I'll nip it in the bud by saying:
BULLSHIT.
We had maybe a dozen people, all extremist nutjobs, saying that. If you can prove that no other country on Earth has extremist nutjobs, you might have a point... but you can't, so you don't.
No, they're just pulling a psychological trick. The traditional valid use of it would be something like:
"All of you here on this jury believe the man is guilty. Well, I, for one, believe he is innocent, and here is why..."
What they're doing is setting up a hypothetical "they," a group that opposes them, then asserting that they came up with their conclusion individually from this group. They're the rebel, the revolutionary, the thinker outside the box, etc.
The problem is that people are using it to replace "I" in places where it makes no damn sense. "I, for one, wear a blue shirt." Is that supposed to imply that there's some big group out there opposed to wearing blue shirts and you're bucking the trend by wearing one?
And even worse, I'm starting to see it all over the Internet, like a meme. Not just on Slashdot, like it used to be.
The old Dungeon Digger/RPG Mission: Thunderbolt implemented that idea. If you were 'killed' by a security robot, you were arrested... breaking out of jail is possible, but very very hard. Once you've been arrested once, though, they kill you.
That's actually a spoof of Brainiac in the Superman comics/TV show... a evil computer whose mission is to record the entire universe in its memory, then destroy the universe so that the copy it contains is the definitive one.
The reporter who took those photographs commented on that. The newspaper policy is that you can only call a person a "looter" if you personally witness them looting from a store. And it makes sense, considering the libel laws in this country... since the reporter didn't personally witness the white woman stealing from a store, she was not described as a looter.
I live in Washington State, and we don't rely on the federal government to provide flood control. If we have a problem with a low levee along the Snohomish River, we budget for it and fix it ourselves.
Why would Louisiana and New Orleans expect the federal government to pay for THEIR levees? If the federal government refused to provide funds, they should have found a way to fund it on their own.
(Besides, the levees that actually broke weren't some of the ones covered by that new proposal... even if they had shored up the levees in that proposal, New Orleans would be in the exact same state now.)
Yeah, but Bush was also right when he said that the people there need to take matters in their own hands. I'm sick of hearing, on CNN, that there are some dead bodies among the refugees in the Superdome... what the hell? Look at all the able-bodied there, and NONE of them have organized enough to stow the bodies somewhere out of sight? NONE of these people have organized to WALK out of the city? What, do their legs not work anymore? (If they can drive a bus up to the doors, people can walk out the same way the bus came.)
And the feather in the cap was the lady on the news, eating MREs dropped from a military helicopter, who said the food was hard to eat because it was cold! Come on!
These people are helpless infants, or at least they're sure as hell giving that impression to me when I'm watching the news. They need to stop relying on the government and take care of their own damn problems. Not enough buses? Then get off your duff and start walking... you'll make the bus's trip shorter, and you'll clear space for the people who aren't able-bodied and TRULY need a ride in a bus, the elderly and the sick.
I've been looking for a clone of MS Project that runs in MacOS X for ages, and so far all I've gotten is, "you want Project? are you a pointy-haired boss? LLOLOL"
The dragon isn't the end boss, it's a side quest. The end boss is so guy in some castle who's so generic and boring that you don't even realize he's the end boss until he's dead and the Game Over screen appears. The dragon would have actually been a decent end boss. Seriously, the game is that lame. Dungeon Siege sucked ass, that's all there is to it... and when Zonk said that it was hailed for strategy elements, he must have been drunk.
It's all wrong anyway. The first game was prized for its strategy? Uh, did you PLAY the first game, Zonk? The first game was 25 hours of clicking on the screen with the mouse. It didn't really matter where you clicked, you just clicked. The game was dull as hell, and after enduring its boringness, there's no way I'd buy the sequel.
Like New Orleans is the only city that was slacking off on disaster prevention. Remember the San Francisco earthquake in 1989? The one that collapsed that 2-story highway trestle that ran through the city? Well, Seattle Washington, also in an earthquake-prone area, has a trestle *identical* to the one in California. And now that we know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the structure can't withstand an earthquake, what has Seattle done? Well, in 15 years they've... hmm... they've done about NOTHING. It's not torn down, it's not even closed. They braced about 5-6 supports with steel, then a few more after the 2001 quake, but nowhere near the entire structure is braced. They still allow cheap parking underneath it.
The real problem is that governments move too slowly to get things done until it's too late. And, what do you know? My corporation works the same way... we usually slack off on replacing old hardware until it actually fails, at which point you can talk management into paying for new hardware which we install at 5 times the cost it would have been if we'd replaced it before it failed in the first place.
Nobody's clean on this one. The government screwed it up... there should have been buses for evac *before* the storm hit, there should have been much more security in the Superdome, and the National Guard response, frankly, it pretty damn slow.
That said, the people are losing my sympathy more and more every day. If you can't keep together as a civilization in a couple of days, you don't deserve what our country offers. It's just pathetic.
EVERY COMPUTER on the market right now can open a.zip file out-of-the-box without downloading any software.
That's a HUGE value-add that you're completely ignoring. It's like Fat32... sure Fat32 sucks ass as a disk format, but everything can use it without me having to install anything.
Laugh, but I have a lot of trouble getting past products with really moronically stupid names. Like "The GIMP" graphics editor for instance... why would I want to use a program that gimped my computer?
What is the XX for in CompreXX? Does it mean it's rated above NC-17?
I thought of that. My plan was to write a DLL, or library of some sort, that any game developer could plug into the game really cheaply and easily, and one good enough that they'd have no reason to build their own keyboard sensing code. And, of course, it would read the keyboard config from the central location by default. If you made the developer's job *easier* and added a feature at the same time, it would be easy to get a lot of studios to adopt it.
Even if it only worked for games from a single company, it'd still be a heck of a lot better than we have now.
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What about Amazon.com? They offer the same service as PayPal, have a MUCH better reputation and at least as much name-recognition.
I like how my joke got marked as "off-topic." If you didn't think it was funny, try maybe "over-rated."
At the end of this game, they're going to reveal that Zelda's really just a disguised hedgehog. Then he'll go on to battle Sonic in later games, at least until they both band together to defeat Master Chief and Crash Bandicoot in a cart race.
Yeah, and here in we build our dikes 800' tall all around the entire country! And we embed flatscreen TVs in it so they aren't an eyesore. And our country has developed super instant freeze technology so when the water gets within 15 miles of the dikes, it's just instantly frozen! And the technology also makes angels fly and sing beautiful songs, and cute kittens fall from the sky!
Where the hell do you people come from? You know, the "holier than thou" Europeans? Go back there, your posts are annoying as all hell.
You had people all over the US talking about how third world uncivilized people deserved the tsunami.
Other people replying to this have been more polite, but I think I'll nip it in the bud by saying:
BULLSHIT.
We had maybe a dozen people, all extremist nutjobs, saying that. If you can prove that no other country on Earth has extremist nutjobs, you might have a point... but you can't, so you don't.
No, they're just pulling a psychological trick. The traditional valid use of it would be something like:
"All of you here on this jury believe the man is guilty. Well, I, for one, believe he is innocent, and here is why..."
What they're doing is setting up a hypothetical "they," a group that opposes them, then asserting that they came up with their conclusion individually from this group. They're the rebel, the revolutionary, the thinker outside the box, etc.
The problem is that people are using it to replace "I" in places where it makes no damn sense. "I, for one, wear a blue shirt." Is that supposed to imply that there's some big group out there opposed to wearing blue shirts and you're bucking the trend by wearing one?
And even worse, I'm starting to see it all over the Internet, like a meme. Not just on Slashdot, like it used to be.
I cancelled both my eBay and PayPal accounts, and put SomethingAwful in the comments field. I suggest other people do the same.
The old Dungeon Digger/RPG Mission: Thunderbolt implemented that idea. If you were 'killed' by a security robot, you were arrested... breaking out of jail is possible, but very very hard. Once you've been arrested once, though, they kill you.
That's actually a spoof of Brainiac in the Superman comics/TV show... a evil computer whose mission is to record the entire universe in its memory, then destroy the universe so that the copy it contains is the definitive one.
:)
Yeah, yeah, I always have to ruin the joke.
The reporter who took those photographs commented on that. The newspaper policy is that you can only call a person a "looter" if you personally witness them looting from a store. And it makes sense, considering the libel laws in this country... since the reporter didn't personally witness the white woman stealing from a store, she was not described as a looter.
How does it? Elaborate, please?
I live in Washington State, and we don't rely on the federal government to provide flood control. If we have a problem with a low levee along the Snohomish River, we budget for it and fix it ourselves.
Why would Louisiana and New Orleans expect the federal government to pay for THEIR levees? If the federal government refused to provide funds, they should have found a way to fund it on their own.
(Besides, the levees that actually broke weren't some of the ones covered by that new proposal... even if they had shored up the levees in that proposal, New Orleans would be in the exact same state now.)
Yeah, but Bush was also right when he said that the people there need to take matters in their own hands. I'm sick of hearing, on CNN, that there are some dead bodies among the refugees in the Superdome... what the hell? Look at all the able-bodied there, and NONE of them have organized enough to stow the bodies somewhere out of sight? NONE of these people have organized to WALK out of the city? What, do their legs not work anymore? (If they can drive a bus up to the doors, people can walk out the same way the bus came.)
And the feather in the cap was the lady on the news, eating MREs dropped from a military helicopter, who said the food was hard to eat because it was cold! Come on!
These people are helpless infants, or at least they're sure as hell giving that impression to me when I'm watching the news. They need to stop relying on the government and take care of their own damn problems. Not enough buses? Then get off your duff and start walking... you'll make the bus's trip shorter, and you'll clear space for the people who aren't able-bodied and TRULY need a ride in a bus, the elderly and the sick.
Are you saying that you think the Red Cross is more qualified to write the software? I don't get the point of your complaint...
I've been looking for a clone of MS Project that runs in MacOS X for ages, and so far all I've gotten is, "you want Project? are you a pointy-haired boss? LLOLOL"
Any advice?
Dungeon Siege was boring as hell. Sorry, I can't call it a "good" game... not even close. It's more of a mouse button stress tester than a game.
The dragon isn't the end boss, it's a side quest. The end boss is so guy in some castle who's so generic and boring that you don't even realize he's the end boss until he's dead and the Game Over screen appears. The dragon would have actually been a decent end boss. Seriously, the game is that lame. Dungeon Siege sucked ass, that's all there is to it... and when Zonk said that it was hailed for strategy elements, he must have been drunk.
It's all wrong anyway. The first game was prized for its strategy? Uh, did you PLAY the first game, Zonk? The first game was 25 hours of clicking on the screen with the mouse. It didn't really matter where you clicked, you just clicked. The game was dull as hell, and after enduring its boringness, there's no way I'd buy the sequel.
It's been done. It would be FAR more useful to help out an existing site.
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http://wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,68720,00.html
That Wired article lists Craig's List and a few other sites offering matching services.
Like New Orleans is the only city that was slacking off on disaster prevention. Remember the San Francisco earthquake in 1989? The one that collapsed that 2-story highway trestle that ran through the city? Well, Seattle Washington, also in an earthquake-prone area, has a trestle *identical* to the one in California. And now that we know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the structure can't withstand an earthquake, what has Seattle done? Well, in 15 years they've... hmm... they've done about NOTHING. It's not torn down, it's not even closed. They braced about 5-6 supports with steel, then a few more after the 2001 quake, but nowhere near the entire structure is braced. They still allow cheap parking underneath it.
The real problem is that governments move too slowly to get things done until it's too late. And, what do you know? My corporation works the same way... we usually slack off on replacing old hardware until it actually fails, at which point you can talk management into paying for new hardware which we install at 5 times the cost it would have been if we'd replaced it before it failed in the first place.
Nobody's clean on this one. The government screwed it up... there should have been buses for evac *before* the storm hit, there should have been much more security in the Superdome, and the National Guard response, frankly, it pretty damn slow.
That said, the people are losing my sympathy more and more every day. If you can't keep together as a civilization in a couple of days, you don't deserve what our country offers. It's just pathetic.
Here's what makes a .zip fine superior:
.zip file out-of-the-box without downloading any software.
EVERY COMPUTER on the market right now can open a
That's a HUGE value-add that you're completely ignoring. It's like Fat32... sure Fat32 sucks ass as a disk format, but everything can use it without me having to install anything.
Laugh, but I have a lot of trouble getting past products with really moronically stupid names. Like "The GIMP" graphics editor for instance... why would I want to use a program that gimped my computer?
What is the XX for in CompreXX? Does it mean it's rated above NC-17?
I thought of that. My plan was to write a DLL, or library of some sort, that any game developer could plug into the game really cheaply and easily, and one good enough that they'd have no reason to build their own keyboard sensing code. And, of course, it would read the keyboard config from the central location by default. If you made the developer's job *easier* and added a feature at the same time, it would be easy to get a lot of studios to adopt it.
Even if it only worked for games from a single company, it'd still be a heck of a lot better than we have now.
Seafirst Bank was all Macintosh until Bank Of America bought them out and took over. That was back in... I dunno, mid-90s.