If you want to know what makes the village curious, it's because everyone really loves puzzles and will force you, at knife point, to move a set amount of matches around to form an image or solve a word problem involving candles or rats or whatever. Also, it has a great art style, humor, point-and-click interface, and all that.
You know, it's that game that EGM made fun of in their inaugural issue of "Electronic Non-Gaming Monthly". Which only proves that mainstream videogame journalists are idiots who wouldn't know a truly great game from blood-filled orgy of glossy graphics and porous gameplay.
Why should you get Endless Ocean? Because Endless Ocean is an experience, one that very few videogames out there have ever been able to provide. Yes, you go around poking and petting fish, but that's really just the tip. Endless Ocean invokes a sense of wonder and awe for the sea and provides some truly breathtaking scenes of underwater exploration. I won't spoil anything here, but you will probably say "Wow!" at least once or twice while playing this game. And the music compliments all of this very well.
Trying to understand this bizarre system hurts the brain, even for someone who follows politics...
And that doesn't even get into the fact that there's both a primary and a caucus there, but while the Republicans apportion half of their delegates from the primary and half from the caucus, the Democrats apportion them all from the caucus (which comes first)... but hold a primary too, even though it means nothing...
Oh, and if you vote at a polling place you can vote in either party's caucus without checking off which party you are a member of, but if you vote by mail (Oregon and Washington have vote-by-mail), your vote won't be counted if you don't check off one of the party-affiliation boxes... and a lot of people forget to check them.
And how about Louisiana, where if nobody gets 50% in the vote, instead of the vote winner getting any delegates, the state convention chooses all of the delegates, all of whom probably go to the national convention unaffiliated? Huckabee only got 43%, so his win there might mean nothing... but his (seeming, it's being contested for good reasons) loss in Washington might end up with him getting the delegates, depending on how the convention goes... (26% McCain, 24% Huckabee, 21% Paul, 16% Romney (who quit), 13% Unaffiliated? What a mess... but it's an all-or-nothing state, unless deals are struck like there was in West Virginia (where McCain and Paul's delegates went over to Huckabee to stop Romney from winning; Paul's got a few delegates for the national convention out of the deal)...
Compared to this the electoral college system looks simple and easy! :D
My old lappy is getting on in years [3 this May], so I figured it was as good a time as any to upgrade. Here's what I'm looking at:
4 sticks of 1GB DDR2 1066 RAM
160GB Western Digital SATA harddrive
Asus P5K motherboard with built-in Wifi
Geforce 8800GT with 512MB
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 at 3.0GHz
Acer 20" widescreen LCD monitor with native resolution of 1680X1050
Cooler Master Ammo case
Standard DVD burner
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit
Total cost of roughly $1300.
Also, I'm thinking about adding in a Bluray drive somewhere down the line. Not right away though because they still cost $190 for ones that don't even burn DVDs.
Scifi movies don't actually need a whole lot in order to good. In fact, they really only need one thing. It's not exactly a big thing, or urgently important for that matter. Do you know what that one thing is? Would you like to guess? No? Well, I'll tell you then. That one small things is this: It stirs your imagination and leaves you in awe of the universe. That's it. That's all. Sunshine does it. 2001 does it. Planetes does it. Blade Runner does. Solaris does it.
Is to see the alternate ones of other cultures. Now this is an interesting one I hadn't heard of before... It sure puts the "blood type" info I see in game manuals (or the dog tags in Metal Gear games) in a different light... I just thought it was a military gesture, like say in the event of a transfusion...
I'd intentionally mismatch blood types in the same way I would intentionally mismatch astrology signs when making fictional characters.
In conclusion, America created Huckabee, the one that created Huckabee is who he calls his running mate, a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain, which makes his running mate McCain, which means America is McCain. Congratulations everyone! You're ALL the front runners of the Republican party!
