Just testing my new... old keyboard. I spilled something on my mac keyboard, so it's back to the old dell board, which is nice because it remembers me, loves me, feels me. Guess what I spilled on it. I'll give you a hint: It was semen.
Insert word stronger than "hate" at your discretion...
Quote:"Dear Valued E3Expo Exhibitor,
As you may have read in the enclosed Press Release, the 2007 E3Expo has been officially cancelled. As the industry has evolved and matured over the past 12 years, the needs of the exhibitors and key attendees have also changed. To address this change, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has announced a new event tentatively scheduled for July 2007.
Details of the event have not been finalized at this time, however our vision and goal is to create a more intimate climate for personalized meetings and product demonstrations. The ESA will announce additional details and information in the ensuing weeks and months.
We would like to take this opportunity to extend our sincere and profound gratitude for your past support of this event. It has been exciting and rewarding to see the growth and significance of this industry mirrored on the exhibit floor of the E3Expo through the years. We look forward to many more years of industry growth, vitality and opportunity.
Because everyone knows that good games only come from major publishers, and game impressions worth paying attention to only come from major industry publications, right?
The industry sure knows so, because that's exactly what the new "E3" is. If you're not a big publisher or a major publication, you're irrelevant and unwelcome.
Looks like Nintendogs has made them want to go back to their old series.
Look at that idiotic commentary. Any of them ever consider "research" before? It sure helps before you make a claim.
Basically, they are all saying they ripped off Nintendogs. That's an interesting idea, except do they even realize that Petz has been around since the mid 90's? If anything Nintendogs ripped off Petz.
At any rate, we'll see if they can play catch up to what Nintendo's done. So far, at least they aren't doing the stupid "version" thing Nintendo pioneered with Pokemon. Seriously that was the most blatant "we want more money so we'll make you pay for the same game over and over again for slight differences rather than release it all as a single package" thing ever, and honestly I wish they'd stop.
I will say I've yet to get Nintendogs simply because I'm waiting them out to see who comes up with a kitty cat game based on that first.
What, do I really need a full review of this waste of time? :) Uhh... there's lots of mostly pointless blood and gore (fountains of blood, decapitations, swords cutting people apart, etc)? Doesn't really make it worth watching though... plenty of bad acting, pointless plot points... Uwe Boll clearly was trying for an epic (oooh, the people who we cared about are dead! ... for the third time in the movie! ... I was supposed to care about them? They never even talked... oh, maybe that kid... a bit... vaguely... (spoilers? Eh, not so much... did you expect anyone other than the main character to survive the film? Then you're not watching the right movie...) but it just doesn't work. Not that that's at all surprising. :D "This is a big dramatic sad scene because everyone is dead" just isn't nearly as moving as Boll thinks. And plus, when you have so MANY scenes which end in piles of bodies...
The plot is also confusing at times (and is lacking in explanation of plenty of things), but all kinds of movies and TV shows, both good and bad, have that problem to varying degrees, so that was more expected... doesn't excuse it, but iffy plots is an all too common movie flaw... still through, there are a LOT of dropped or completely incomprehensible plot points. It's pretty painful at times... :)
The fight at the end was stupid too. For a movie that should be about BloodRayne, why are the two major male characters doing most of the fighting... (not to mention the brilliant plan our three remaining characters had for getting into the evil badguy's castle! ... oh wait, they didn't have one and it just seems to all work out in the end through pure luck? Right... so, so bad...)
Why did I rent it? At this local rental place each day you get a free movie from some specific section with each rental (except weekends, when it's rent 2 to get 1 free), and tuesdays is 'action'... last time I rented the (very good!) Underworld (director's cut). I wasn't exactly expecting anything of that caliber this time (though I wasn't expecting that last time either, but my hopes were higher than for a Uwe Boll film... :D), and my expectations were met. If any movie with this much gore can be bland and uninteresting, this is it...
I don't get why this guy is celebrating this. What is WITH these idiotic people who think it's "okay" to endanger someone else's life so long as they have fun and they themselves don't think it's "that bad a risk"?
No, you NEVER HAVE PERMISSION TO ENDANGER MY LIFE JUST TO GET YOUR KICKS, EVER! That means NO running up to me and punching me in the face, no driving by and shooting me with a paintball gun, no various fake-outs meant to make me fall down in an attempt to avoid you, no DRIVING A ROOMBA THROUGH TRAFFIC just to pretend you are playing frogger, ignoring the fact that people could get into a serious accident.
Rule 2, you aren't even allowed to damage my STUFF just to have fun.
Why do people think "it's fine"? Do they really have any idea what people actually have to deal with? Ugh, this stuff just sickens me.
Here's a fun idea. Let's kidnap you and torture you for a few years because I think the look on your face would be hilarious. We could post it online, and people would LAAAUGH, and if you bother pointing out all the pain we'd say "oh yeesh take a chill pill it's just having fun".
As my "buy way more old games than you probably should" thing continues, today I only spent $17, but got great stuff... SNES Yoshi's Island ($6), for one, but finally the store that got a Sega CD a few weeks ago got another Genesis 1, this one with a working power supply... so I got a Sega CD. :) The Genesis 1 it came with seems to be broken, but oh well... since I only have one Genesis 1 power supply I can't use them together anyway... (running it with my Genesis 2 I got a few months back). Price (SCD, Genesis, power supply, RFU)? $5... untested, but fortunately the thing that I wanted, the Sega CD, works fine. :) Had to clean the connector, but now it works, battery RAM included... (I can tell because it's full -- three Lunar saves are filling it up. Sadly no Lunar game, though... :()
Hmm, Sega CD games... not many available around here. I've only seen Battlecorps, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Loadstar, Sewer Shark, Star Wars: Rebel Assualt (*tries to tell self:* I already have two copies of the better PC version... I already have two copies of the better PC version...), and Third World War. Since getting all of them would cost about $23, I might end up with all six (though I might be able to resist Sewer Shark, given its quite poor reputation)... we'll see.
... I know I've made previous threads like this, but still... (though it is true that as the summer progressed I greatly slowed down my game buying -- just didn't have enough money... bought a lot of stuff the first month, but quite less since then. Still, I got stuff like Illusion of Gaia ($10, haven't started it yet), Mario Paint with mouse and mousepad (also $10 - more for the novelty of the thing...)... a $5 copy of Donkey Kong Country III... Genesis games like Ranger-X and (personal favorite of mine) Outrun 2019... I just got a Genesis in the beginning of t summer yest I have about 35 games... Dynamite Headdy, Lightening Force, Thunder Force II, Sonics 1, 2, and Knuckles, Rocket Knight Adventures, Contra: Hard Corps...Hardball III (my favorite baseball series...)...
Oh yeah, and Turrican for Gameboy. :) (The Turrican series is awesome, I was really happy to find this one, despite the obvious problems that come from porting a PC(Amiga, Commodore 64, etc, not DOS or Mac)/Genesis game to the Gameboy... you have five weapons, for instance, which are a bit confusing to access, and the massive levels lead to tiny sprites (to try to fit everything on the screen)... oh well, fun anyway.)... Metroid: Zero Mission for GBA too. Plenty of others too, everything except what I got today is on my IGN list. (I like lists, so I enjoy keeping it up to date... it's so much simpler than spreadsheets or pieces of paper and the back pages of notebooks and stuff, like I used to do! :D)
Found this enlightening (from over at badastronomy.com). The last thing we need is to send a picture of a soup can great distances only for them to think it's our god (or worse, a threat of invasion).
Quote:I am not an artist, though I appreciate art. I like some types, I don’t like others, just like most humans. There’s a great deal of art I don’t understand, which itself is understandable: art is a way of expressing what is happening inside one’s mind.
We all have different experiences, making a complete understanding of a piece of artwork impossible. But we have enough similar experiences that the work will translate– it will just touch us all in a different way. It may even invoke a reaction totally unanticipated by the artist, but this is part and parcel of what makes art, well, art.
So when an artist says something like this, I have to react:
If I were [ET] trying to communicate with beings elsewhere in the universe…I’d try to express something about myself in the most universal language I could imagine: I’d send art.
My reaction? This guy is a goofball.
Art is the least universal communication method there is. It changes from person to person. Heck, it changes even in one person; I listen to Tchaikovsky as well as ABBA. It’s difficult to understand art from another culture without first knowing something about that culture — scholars still argue over the meaning of cave art from tens of thousands of years ago, and those guys were still human. This pretty much precludes understanding alien art, especially if it is sent via radio from another star without any sort of lesson in alien sociology. And even if it does invoke a reaction in us humans, it almost certainly won’t be what the aliens had in mind.
Have no doubt, art is part of what it is to be human. That cave art I mentioned indicates that there was something different about the creatures who drew it over their ancient ancestors. Animals, it seems likely, don’t grasp metaphors, and seeing the Universe metaphorically is what art is.
Metaphors depend on their context. I suspect that even if aliens had art, we wouldn’t even recognize it as such.
The Universal language, if there is such a thing, is the language the Universe itself speaks: math. The symbols might change, but the relationships (like gravity dropping off with the square of the distance, and the peak wavelength emitted by a star depending linearly on temperature) are true everywhere.
I’m not trying to be a soulless scientist stereotype here; like I said, I have my own eye for art (I recently discovered Leonardo Nierman, and if anyone wants to buy me one of his paintings, there was a version of "Firebird" I saw in a gallery in New Orleans for only $15,000). Art is a way of expressing our desires, our fears, our human qualities… which is precisely what makes it such a terrible way to try to communicate with aliens.
There’s a poetry in the idea of using art to communicate that appeals to our emotion, but poetry just won’t work as a way to initiate contact. Binary streams of ones and zeros may seem cold and heartless… but aliens may in fact have lower body temperatures and no hearts.
I have created a cool new companion app for Tendo City.
Tendo City PM Pager, this app monitors for new private messages and notifies you. Get rid of those annoying ticking page refresh sounds with the cool new app, it runs in the background and pops up with new messages similar to outlook 2003. All you have to do is make sure your logged into Tendo city threw Internet Explorer and PM pager does the rest! After you log in the first time you never have to open Internet Explorer again, I promise! In addition more panels such as news and events will be made available soon.
Current Version 1.01 BETA R3
Requires Windows 2000 / XP, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Installer (Ships With Windows)
Quote:Experts at defence firm BAE Systems have been working on developing a new super-adherent material they say acts like "molecular Velcro". The textile, which they have labelled Synthetic Gecko, does not use glue or pressure to stick to walls but recreates the natural adhesion of the lizard which gives it its name.
So scientists have recreated the natural adhesion of geckos. Unlike insects, which can use suction cups and hooks to do the job, larger creatures have the issue of scale (since volume increases faster than area when you pump up the size of something, and density being constant, that means that a 10X fly is bearing more weight relative to it's size on those feet than a normal fly). As the article says, geckos instead use properties of the electron shields to "bond" with anything they walk on.
These will make mountain climbing a lot easier, or robbing a skyrise apartment complex, you know whatever.
