It always seemed "odd" to me but I could never quite put my finger on it. However, I now realize that what stands before me on my screen is mathematically impossible. The lines that cut it into a grid neither "meet" like a meridian nor do they get smaller and smaller until they reach a "pole" like the equator and it's brethren (the name of which I forget). They are always parallel and they are always the same size, and you see this as you spin it.
Further, upon looking closely at the blocks making up each piece, they do not in fact "shrink" closer to the sphere than away, they actually are made up of cubes with no distortion to make them fit a spherical surface, and there's no distortion ON the ball either. That don't make sense! Perfect squares of that size would result in a "lego block" sphere if anything.
Lastly, an experiment. I took a single piece, which as you know has a fixed orientation and can't be rotated, and attempted to rotate it relative to the sphere. I should have been able to "cheat" it into essentially being in a different orientation. I moved it up north to the top as I could see it, then slid it left back to the same line I had it, and slid it back. Lo and behold, that FELT weird in my EYES, because the thing didn't slide back in horizontally or anything of the sort. The piece was still the same, and the sphere itself was in the same orientation I started with, defying the way a sphere should work.
I had always thought it felt "funny" the way the sphere looked and behaved but could never put my finger on it. Now with some more education I can actually go in there and accurately pinpoint the descrepencies.
What I can't do is figure out how this thing manages to exist in defiance of all logic. Thoughts? And yes, it's a video games, but even in a virtual world a sphere, as a mathematical construct, HAS to behave in certain ways. There's more to this than meets the eye, like a transformer...
So it seems my friends were, completely out of character, actually WANTING to see this movie, and I was brought along as well. Explained beforehand to me as a movie that was actually intentionally made to be totally terrible but no part of the movie would betray it. Apparently it was a comedy with the joke being how aweful it was and how serious it took itself.
Well, it worked. That was the worst movie I ever liked. Aweful, just aweful. It did everything I don't like action movies for, only exxagerated to a level unprecedented. Inexplicable plot twists, ridiculous plot with science SOUNDING explanations that still get it wrong, dramatic cop buddies only one dies, dramatic tension that isn't all that dramatic but silly, over the top violence where everyone dies in ways that exemplify every over the top death scene you may have seen in an action movie. I was expecting the main man detective to actually have some lord of the rings style dramatic music in the background as he worked his way slowly with one arm in front of him as a wave of wind and snakes tear at his body but he's just like too pumped and has a scowel of determination on him. I also expected some final scene with a mac truck barrelling down on the heros just when they think everything's safe and as they look closer they see that behind the wheel is, the snakes! Neither happened, but hey they could be deleted scenes in the DVD.
This movie was made to be talked about DURING the movie, but unfortunatly my audience was "broken" and didn't say a thing. They need to add a little disclaimer at the start where the main character smashes through one of those "please be silent during the film" messages and says "no, you need to make fun of this movie loudly and talk to strangers next to you about it, that's the whole point!" and then he brings in those two robots that make fun of movies to show the audience how it's done with a simple demonstration.
I was going through some old stuff in the house, in a room that is no longer used since my grandmother moved out, and I found something amazing.
It's an SNES bundle, with Link to the Past as a pack-in game. The machine was never removed from the box, and everything's in it, completely mint-condition. It was purchased from Target in 1998. I have no idea at all why my grandmother had this, or why she was holding onto it, but still, a mint-condition SNES isn't something you happen across every day.
Having a brand-new copy of LTTP doesn't hurt, either. :D
Say I have a friend who wants to get an old school PSX so that he can relive the 90's. Say that he knew nothing about PSX, and wanted to know what were the very best titles from every genre (RPG, FPS, ADVENTURE, ETC.) to get.
yes...i just wanted to point out that it once was my birthday, but i had been working at a church camp with no tv, internet, and 1 phone line....got back august 2nd and my bday was july 13, so i spent my summer getting up around 7 and going to bed about 10 30....
Another case of child abuse, only this time there's a bit of a twist as it's done with drugs. Wonder exactly what motivated her to do this? Maybe she just wanted her kid to shut up for a while? At any rate, the kid's been removed from her custody and seems to be "clean" at this point. From things I've read and seen, apparently while the "hardcore" stuff has a much greater level of addiction, it apparently also leaves the system a lot easier than stuff like alcohol, so that's one good thing.
Still, very stupid and irresponsible mother here. If a reversable and safe surgery option for essentially neutoring and spaying babies comes along, I think I'll be pushing for the social engineering to make that as standard and recommended a procedure to do to kids as male circumcision is today. That way, kids can be as stupid as they want to be (with regards to the continued risk of STDs) without the risk of accidently creating yet another human spore that will repeat the cycle with a nice lack of education, and when they are actually WANTING to have a kid, they just get the reversing surgery and go for it. It's like the perfect solution to like a billion problems without stepping on anyone's rights or requiring laws (remember, social engineering would be required though).
The other steps would all require legal stuff, but that would be a last resort when I'm supreme dictator.
1.) Ja, Wii will not be playable to ze zeneral publick, but will be zhown and will playable for daz press.
2.) Ze name of ze show (for Nintendo) iz called 'Wii keep our promise". Though it'z unknown at diz point if Nintendo will give out a price unt date, ja, though new titles, more footage unt of course a megaton or two are to be ezxpeckted.
3.) In case you wore wondering, Zony wont be zhowcasing the PS3 to the publick. While Nintendo might be looking out for publick safety unt avoiding thoze 7 hour linez to play demoz, Zony is opting to avoid the whole negative-press-thing that they ran in to at za E3. (they're still being schtookt for the unimpressive footage and of course unt giant enemy crab)
4.) Dis unt the second to ze lazt show Nintendo has before it'z November launch (rumored to be between the 4th and 15th), next is ze Tokyo show in.... Tokyo, which I believe is juzt a few weekz after DAZ DEUTSCHLAND zhow. Zo, Nintendo may not spill all the beans until daz Tokyo, but then again, Nintendo has been promising a big turnz aroundz for how they've been dealing with Europe in the past (unt svinestukker), so it could be das blockbuster zhow. In the end, all we can ezxpeckt is more footage unt the 28 launch titlez unt more announced games, which btw is up to 88 at the moment (to hit within the launch window about 3 months in), which i'm sure das deutschland will get a kick out of.
Leipzig Game Convention in 6 days ladies.
You may only pozt unt you are speaking with unt stupid DAS DEUTSCHLAND accent, ja?
