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| News Comments > Prey Patch, Content Plans |
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Re: ... |
Aug 12, 2006, 13:22 |
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without mutants, without aliens, without zombies, without crazy sci-fi weapons, without cliched ultra-bad guys and set in the modern day (not another WWII shooter)? See, I complain about the opposite. There's just too damn many realistic shooters nowdays and not enough fantasy scifi ones. If I see one more realistic WWII title from an Eastern European developer I will scream. RTCW was good cause it had zombies and futuristic weapons and shit. But things like Medal of Honor, Soldier of Fortune and their ilk hold absolutely no interest for me. I play games to escape from reality.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Vicodin |
Aug 9, 2006, 12:34 |
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Vicodin, oh YEAH. Great stuff. I never take drugs so when I got the vicodin after my surgery it was pretty novel for me. Loved it. LOVED ... IT. I wasn't in a lot of pain but it made me feel good and more importantly let me sleep most of the day away and the night too. It's a good drug because it's not too much but not too little either. Juuuust right.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: HL? |
Aug 1, 2006, 15:23 |
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I think Batman Begins was the best of all the recent Batman movies ... Saw Catwoman last night ... You motivated me to go update my queue which has been getting pretty stale lately.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: HL? |
Aug 1, 2006, 13:38 |
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Well, first you had that you were questioning Val Kilmer as Batman, then you edited and changed it to Michael Keaton. I guess I should know better than to put one over on xXBatmanXx. I was confused. Both actors were surprising choices to play Batman I thought, but I remember thinking specifically Michael Keaton? Betelgeuse? WTF?
Michael Keaton: Great Batman, horrid Wayne. I never thought about that, but you're 100% correct. He was an awesome Batman. I remember Val Kilmer's Bruce Wayne but now can't recall what I thought of his Batman.
And another edit cause I just realized Clooney seemed a natural to play Batman as I recall, but turned out he was the WORST one of them all (I never saw the Christian Bale one). Anyway, I now keep an open mind about odd casting decisions nowdays cause I'm so often surprised.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: HL? |
Aug 1, 2006, 12:54 |
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Heath Ledger as the joker? I said the same thing about Michael Keaton as Batman??!! But I thought he did a pretty good job, a surprisingly appropriate cast. On the surface Ledger seems like an insane choice too (my reaction was the same as yours), but the man is a scary talented actor so I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Love Colbert |
Aug 1, 2006, 12:48 |
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Very funny guy and ballsy too. I'm a huge fan of Wikipedia as well. In fact I'm addicted to it! I keep a small pad of paper in my pocket to jot down things I want to look up later because I was always forgetting. Currently I have "Control theory" jotted down. Somebody should do an article on Wikipedia addicts.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Top 20 |
Jul 31, 2006, 12:43 |
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Ha! Thought that said top 20 Greatest Video Game Characters. Didn't look closely enough before I clicked the link.
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| News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs |
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Re: Social network sites face US ban. |
Jul 31, 2006, 12:31 |
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Infuriating. "Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!" I'm getting pretty sick of hearing that. My 12-year old niece loves MySpace and she's always sharing the latest things she's done with me. She's precocious, creative, and SCARY smart. She knows all about online predators. Her mother has done her job. This is one of those purely political moves. Politicians who know better don't dare vote against protecting children.
Anybody's kid that's stupid enough to go alone to meet someone from the internet, or even go at all deserves what they get if it's a predator at the other end. Well, I don't know about DESERVE it, but I'd say anybody who's kid would go alone to meet somebody on the internet will probably find some way to do it even without access to the most popular in-the-news "social networking site" du jour. They're going to have to ban the entire internet to keep kids 100% safe from online predators, won't they?
Number of molestations this law will prevent: 0.
This comment was edited on Jul 31, 12:32. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: More proof I was right |
Jul 29, 2006, 13:08 |
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I find it difficult to beleive thats verbatim and not the NY press looking for retribution on Gibson and Dad Agreed.
I know he's a lunatic Double agreed. What we need is a video tape. Don't cops have cameras mounted in their cars nowdays? What a juicy scandal that would be.
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| News Comments > Evening Q&A |
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Strife |
Jul 25, 2006, 12:48 |
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Who else remembers Strife? I LOVED that game. But it was a weird one. It used the Doom engine but was released years after Doom so the tech was extremely outdated. It may have even been released after Quake. I think it was. I can completely understand Romero's comments: great game but he wasn't happy with the development. Probably has something to do with how long it took to get out the door.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: No subject |
Jul 25, 2006, 12:33 |
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but if the cop asks your name just give it, picking fights with cops always, always leads to more trouble. I was told a long long time ago that you are always legally required to provide identification to the police if they ask for it. No exceptions. You don't provide it and they can legally arrest you. I know nothing about the law so I don't know if that's actually true in California, but I have always believed it was.
I believe the Supreme Court ruled this year that when an officer asks you your name - you must give them an answer I'd be interested in knowing more about this. I thought this was the case for at least a decade.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Mac Ads |
Jul 21, 2006, 13:55 |
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Well, Blue is due to get another coffee grinder Any Day Now.. Oh BOY! I can't wait!! Do you think it'll be tomorrow?? Will it be a quiet grinder or a loud one? Will he need to shake it vigorously to get a fine grind or do you think it'll be sophisticated enough to do a really fine grind by itself? Is he going to save the old grinder for spices and just use the new one for coffee? Will it motivate him to buy a new coffee maker do you think? God, I'm going crazy with curiosity!
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Mac Ads |
Jul 21, 2006, 12:13 |
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Here's how I feel about those stupid "Mac vs. PC" ads Bravo! I hate that ad worth a passion. Years ago I saw this tech show on TV that had a regular segment on cool Mac culture. The host was a similarly hip, superior, smarmy guy that I just wanted to strangle. In the segment I saw, he compared different tech sorts of things and told us which ones Mac users would use. Which watch Mac users would wear. What music they would listen to. Example: WordPerfect vs. MS Word. MS Word is the only choice for Mac users because WordPerfect is soooo PC. God I wanted to smack him through my TV set.
My question is, do even hardcore Mac users actually like those ads?
And PS. Getting kind of tired of the pothole stories. Makes me long for the good old days of refrigerator lightbulbs.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Holy crap |
Jul 18, 2006, 15:46 |
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That woman is Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany. Bush comes up behind her and starts rubbing her neck and shoulders. It looks to me like she kind of freaks--startled, offended and disgusted. Though I could be projecting my own reaction there, I think there's room for debate. The liberal bloggers are all over it but it does seem pretty damn bizarre to me. I mean you just don't come up and do that to the female leader of another country at a formal gathering, right? The blogs are all over his creepy blank expression. The claim is he is drunk off his ass, though I don't personally see that. I see something but I can't figure out what the hell it is. It could be they've developed some kind of rapport out of the public eye and his "groping" really was the harmless joke some people claim. I hope to god that's the case. I mean her platform was closer ties with the US, isn't that right? She likes Bush.
Still, that looks like disgust to me. I could be wrong.
Translation and clearer photos here:
http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=24262
And yeah, all the screaming and raging about Bush's open mike comments are pretty over the top. Who cares? He said "shit." Big fucking hairy deal.
This comment was edited on Jul 18, 15:54. |
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy - WarPath |
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Re: No demo no purchase |
Jul 18, 2006, 15:06 |
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Reminds me of something I read awhile back where they said the most frequently used button on an average flash site: "skip intro"... I think that's what makes this site so particularly bad. It's ALL flash as far as I can tell. Not just an intro.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: LCD Insight |
Jul 18, 2006, 11:58 |
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how good are LCDs at interpolating for lower resolutions? Is the blurring tolerable or unbearable? In my opinion they're better than CRTs. As you lower the resolution on CRTs the scan lines become bigger and more noticeable. On LCDs things get fuzzier, but no scan lines! Personally I prefer the latter. I really hate scan lines. This depends on a lot of factors though. If you're watching something or playing a game at 1280 x 1024 on a CRT, you won't really notice the lines unless your monitor is huge. If you're on an LCD whose native resolution is 1600 x 1200, then 1280 x 1024 will look much worse than on a CRT.
My story is I bought a 21" LCD monitor and the native resolution of 1600 x 1200 is too high to play many of the latest games unless I want to invest in an SLI solution, which I don't. I wish, frankly, that I'd gotten a 19" instead so I could play things at 1280 x 1024. For example, I'm playing Oblivion at 800 x 600 since it's exactly half of 1600 x 1200--things are much less blurry since there's a 1 to 1 mapping between the old resolution and the new one. Now, my system is powerful enough to play it at 1024 x 768, or even 1280 x 1024 but since that's not a linear transformation it looks blurrier and worse than at 800 x 600. My good pal Zathrus, right below me, reminded me of this fact.
The large screen is nice but it takes a much more powerful computer to play everything at its native resolution. I wish I'd gotten a 19 incher.
This comment was edited on Jul 18, 12:00. |
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| News Comments > The Mod Squads |
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Oh Puhleeze! |
Jul 18, 2006, 11:42 |
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Far more soul-crushing and depressing, however, is the callous and blatant lack of personal integrity and decency displayed by so many of our former associates, who maintained elaborate lies for weeks or even months to cover up their unproductivity and then suddenly and unexpectedly left the team, often leaving us worse off than we would have been had they not been there at all. The guy seems shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that sometimes people say they're working when they actually aren't. And he regards it as the ultimate sin, as bad as Hitler or something. Yeah, I've been in projects where I've crafted similarly elaborate lies, though I usually manage to come through in the end. Seriously, who hasn't?
Sorry the project is cancelled. Future mod managers take note: Your minions are human.
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Re: Homepages |
Jul 17, 2006, 17:35 |
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It's got everything I need there: gmail, headlines, weather, movies, Blues News Cool. I didn't notice you could put Bluesnews there. You made me take a look at what you could really do with it. I did a search there for rss and now I see all the rss stuff you can get. As long as I can add what I want I may not need rss, but I wish I could style things to take better advantage of screen real estate at my resolution. Maybe I'll have to go greasemonkey on its ass.
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