You ain't the only one.Originally Posted by RandBlade
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Finished Fallout 3.
Was good enough. Downloaded the New Vegas expansion so playing that.
Quite like this whole catching up on older games thing. It's a cheap way to play stuff.
You ain't the only one.
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Finished Fallout 3.
Was good enough. Downloaded the New Vegas expansion so playing that.
Quite like this whole catching up on older games thing. It's a cheap way to play stuff.
No, I downloaded it when it was offered as a free trial with the Humble Bundle, and it took me about 30 seconds to realize it was dumb.
Don't class it as a 1980s game, though. Super Mario is still awesome.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
An open world sandbox game is "1980s style"?
When the sky above us fell
We descended into hell
Into kingdom come
That's one of the least unreasonable things uttered by that poster in months
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Graphics. Does kinda look like the 80's for how pixelated and low res it is. And since I'll venture a safe-ish guess that he's never played it, the very old look to the graphics is about all he has to go on. Not that I've played it either, but the screenshots definitely do remind me of old MS-DOS games and 8 bit consoles, as well.An open world sandbox game is "1980s style"?
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
I know some hobbyists did manage to translate DOOM to an Amstrad or something crazy like that, but how ignorant would one have to be on 3D engines before that became at all a sensible 'memory'?
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
An 80s game would have used sprites, and a late 80s game would probably have actually used more colors and be *less* pixelated than Minecraft. However, they would not have been able to do a full 3d world and they sure as shit wouldn't have had dynamic lighting. So, it's really a very superficial comparison even if all you have to go on is screenshots.
When the sky above us fell
We descended into hell
Into kingdom come
Hey, you
Find which old computer model they got DOOM to run on
I can't find it
Find iiiittt
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
ZX Spectrum?
When the sky above us fell
We descended into hell
Into kingdom come
Fuck yes
You are grade A awesome
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Possibly what he was going for with a two-word criticism, though.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Something to hold over the Batman fans
Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 09-14-2011 at 06:41 PM.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Are you suggesting over-blown, aggressive and haughty criticism over something trivial and pointless is somehow bad or unwanted?
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Oh well, when you put it like that... pardon me. Do carry on.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Indeed. Didn't think "1980's style" was an in-depth thesis. The graphics are that style.
Look
I am going to roll up this newspaper if you don't wise up
This can be down-graded to the hose with a marked improvement in demeanor
Also, here's some lotion, apply directly to the eyes
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Tried the demo of Tropico 4 yesterday. I heard that if I like SimCity and Civ I should really enjoy it. I love those games, but so far Tropico just doesn't seem as gripping. I'll give it a little while longer considering it reviewed really well, I want to like it...
It's very similar to Tropico 3 apparently, which I bought, played for a couple of hours, and never returned to.
The city-building element wasn't engaging enough, and I don't really like politicking in games.
Looks like Sony might have learned a lesson or two from the damage thats mounting from losing all that customer data and whatnot.
The latest PSN EULA states that by using the service, you wave all rights to class action suits.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
I'm not sure, but over here you simply can't sign away certain rights. Such a contract would be "contra bonos mores" and be completely invalid.Looks like Sony might have learned a lesson or two from the damage thats mounting from losing all that customer data and whatnot.
The latest PSN EULA states that by using the service, you wave all rights to class action suits.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
SCOTUS just ruled corporations can do exactly that.
Well, that's not quite accurate, (ruling that companies can block people from pressing those claims as a group) and in any event, good for SCOTUS. This is what happens when idiots try to abuse the system.SCOTUS just ruled corporations can do exactly that.
So, two dumbasses tried to launch a multi-million dollar suit against AT&T on the basis of their state's fucktarded laws (taxing "free" handsets) and socialist insanity, and now the federal government's stepped in and overruled a California state law that encouraged this kind of insanity in the first place. And that's how it should be. $30 is a matter for small claims court (if that), not an excuse for a mutli-million dollar lawsuit scheme... against the wrong party anyway. Suing a business because they're following state law and collecting sales tax? Idiots.The fight stemmed from a complaint against AT&T Mobility by Vincent and Liza Concepcion, who say they were improperly charged about $30 in sales tax on a phone AT&T advertised as free.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Isn't that what class action status is?In fact class action is directly addressed in the majority opinion.
This decision over rules the recent shift in states attempting to invalidate the push into corporate controlled arbitration. Highly doubt Sony is going to be the only one to be adding adjustments like this.
Or are you more focused on Khen's comment, caused thats mainly been handled and upheld via ProCD v. Zeidenberg (click through EULAs being enforceable).
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
They have all probably already added them under your nose...
My mind cannot process the combination between message and poster right here
It's like a photoshop of Stalin selling Mickey Mouse hats at Disney World
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
My mind cannot process the combination between message and poster right here
It's like a photoshop of Stalin selling Mickey Mouse hats at Disney World
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Ooh, ooh.
This.
Common contract law vs. fine print... COMMON LAW MUST ALWAYS WIN or die!
Excerpt:
"When I pushed for a reason and clarification, they told me it was because I was complaining too much."
In July 2008, Northwest sent the rabbi a letter noting that he had made 24 complaints in the past eight months, including nine incidents of his bag arriving late at the luggage carousel, according to court papers.
"You have continually asked for compensation over and above our guidelines. We have awarded you $1,925.00 in travel credit vouchers, 78,500 WorldPerks bonus miles, a voucher extension for your son, and $491.00 in cash reimbursements," the letter states, according to court papers.
"Due to our past generosity, we must respectfully advise that we will no longer be awarding you compensation each time you contact us."
Ginsberg's lawyers countered that the rabbi and his wife had been averaging about 75 flights on Northwest each year, and that Ginsberg estimated that only about 10% of the trips had resulted in a call to Northwest's customer care.
"I don't think I was a frequent complainer," Ginsberg said.
"They should have taken their time and analyzed: Were my complaints legitimate? Should they be doing something to improve their service and quality of product? Instead of worrying, we've got to shut up somebody who is complaining too much."
Valve appears to have made Portal free through Steam nowin case anyone still hasn't played it.
I finally moved onto Guild Wars NightFall. Map is fucking huge, wonder how much of it is explorable.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Eh, a software EULA isn't necessarily the same sort of contract agreement.SCOTUS just ruled corporations can do exactly that.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
Right, exactly the point. You can't (and shouldn't be able to) see $30 sales tax on a free handset and turn that into a multimillion dollar lotto ticket through the court system. An individual lawsuit, on the other hand, is a different issue, and was unaffected by this decision. In fact, generally speaking, this ruling doesn't even say anything about class action lawsuits (the old rules apply), it just invalidated a California law which tried to eliminate arbitration altogether (for most intents and purposes). And if "California's charging sales tax on a free handset" belongs anywhere in the court system, it's either in arbitration or small claims court anyway.Isn't that what class action status is?
Glad to hear it. I'd hate to think I'd become predictable, or fully explainable by distorted caricatures of my political viewpoints.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Nowhere near. All the statute acted against was the increasing predatory use of mandatory arbitration clauses in boilerplate contracts between vastly inequal parties. A statute that had been in line with prior court decisions which heretofore had maintained that private parties cannot forcibly prevent each other from making recourse to the courts to prevent or mitigate harm.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
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