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| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3893 |  LoathyMcGee (27) Feb 17, 2007 - 11:47 am » Edited on Feb 17, 2007 - 07:44 pm
| I don't think we can just go by the coin likeness... I mean, there are hundreds of busts and paintings from the period she and Marc Antony lived in--and she's considerably more attractive (though still not quite the hottie by today's standards) in those.
Who's to say that the coin might've had a bad print and busts had it right? Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3861 | LoathyMcGee (27) Feb 07, 2007 - 11:17 pm
| You-... You're kidding, right?
I mean, the books are fairly enjoyable if you're perhaps eight and incapable of grasping nuance, depth, believable character growth and the fact that you're reading the same book over, and over, and over, etc. But have you read the books when you were older?
I promise you, you'll have a different opinion. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=14059 | LoathyMcGee (27) Jan 28, 2007 - 01:39 am
| They're not making 360s at a loss anymore... this was pretty widely reported about a month ago.
Now, this isn't to say they're losing a lot money *replacing* 360s and the like. I'm just saying that the losses aren't coming from the manufacture of the console anymore, is all. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3835 | LoathyMcGee (27) Jan 28, 2007 - 01:35 am
| I dunno... I didn't think Stand Alone Complex had that bad of voice acting...
I will say that while the two movies were much more philosophical and nebulous, the material wasn't rocket science. I've never understood people who say that the movies, and especially SAC, appeal only to tech freaks and the like. It was intelligent science fiction with enormous depth and breadth.
It's kinda like Deadwood in this--people say it's difficult to follow, etc., etc. This isn't the case. It only requires the ability to snap to and pay attention for more than 20 seconds at a time. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=13911 | LoathyMcGee (27) Jan 15, 2007 - 07:06 pm
| Also? No, Japan doesn't rule the market; it hasn't for almost ten years, if I'm not mistaken.
North America does, like it or not. Nothing to do with passion or taste or anything like that, we just have three times larger a population, and the percentage of people who play games here isn't *that* much less than that of Japan's percentage to make of the fact they have a third of our population. As a consequence, though they, historically, have driven the console tech. and industry, we are the greatest consumers by far and as such, have ultimate power over whether a console becomes worldwide No. 1 or just languishes as a platform for hentai games.
I don't believe I'm mistaken, but I'll supply research if you don't trust my memory and conjecture.
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| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3812 | LoathyMcGee (27) Jan 11, 2007 - 11:07 pm » Edited on Jan 12, 2007 - 03:01 am
| *sigh* It's too bad. With a little more gusto it could have fit my happiest dreams.
The image I have in my head, that of a lone Tigger, resplendent in the noonday sun, might and right on his side, justice cradled securely in his furry fist. That of this great avatar of all the world's woes and unspoken wishes cold-clocking a snotty child across his demanding, impertinent mouth.
I see, in my mind's eye, a perfect follow-through, the child's head whipping around and his body following it to the white concrete below. There is, perhaps, a 180 degree spin as the keening larva falls. I fathom hearing a loud crack snap across the park, and Oh, what is that?
That's evil, collapsing on its broken back. The crowd cheers and the day seems brighter, as if a great eclipse were finally ended. There is laughter now, joy now. Enemies shake hands and smile. There are Hail-Fellow-Well-Mets and Fare-Thee-Wells. Hats, my friends, are doffed. Men, long grown despondent, feel an urge to buy flowers and look at their loves and smile electric, seeing and being alive for the first time since childhood. Worldwide, women suggest threesomes with that hot number from marketing.
In the great tumult, he was almost forgotten, but the World calms down and turns to our Glorious Hero in Orange and White. "What do we do? Where do we go from here? Guide us, O Great Warrior and Slayer of Over-Indulged Spoilt Rat Children From Beyond the Suburbs Who Make Ever So Much Fucking Noise!"
And he would flail those mighty arms around in that wonderful guy-in-a-furry-suit-in-the-hot-sun-who-is-paid-minimum-wage-but-does-it-anyways-because-electricity-expenses-are-a-bitch-and-his-bullshit-roommate-is-welshing-on-the-bills kinda way and with a muffled "HooHooHoo!" he would start to bounce.
Ever higher, ever more gracefully he would bounce until the skies parted and he bounced into the stars. And every day from then on for the breadth of humanity, every orange and black sunrise we saw, we would know there was never any reason to cry anymore. No reason to be afraid, that we are one, always. No hate, no fear, no sadness or regret. Just love and ultimate transcendental acceptance. There would be no worries over our inevitable Omega--we'd sail through it laughing, noting the many-colored balloons. And all this, because one Tigger took it upon his tiny shoulders to cowboy up and stop the guff.
And life, life is beautiful. Because we now know that no matter how far we fall, we'll only bounce higher.
But it wasn't so, and *sigh* once more... Then again why sleep, if not perchance to dream?
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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=13702 | LoathyMcGee (27) Dec 26, 2006 - 01:23 am » Edited on Dec 26, 2006 - 01:25 am
| My only problem with Gears was whenever any of the characters opened their goddamn mouths and spewed forth raw and unadulterated tard, and whenever I'd realize that Epic lovingly created this world, these environments, and they didn't bother to, you know, put the goddamn thing in the game.
They had to have had an idea of a story to have created what they did. I cannot for the life of me understand why it wasn't put in. I mean, really, what's the motivation? That guns and shiny things and wicked armored cankles are cool? That you're playing a character seemingly written by people who've never had a callus or come close to seeing anyone who was actually tough or brave or hard.
I get that it's meant to be a full-on action movie explodey-fest, and I can respect that, but then why the pretense? Why create a world that no one inhabits?
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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=13682 | LoathyMcGee (27) Dec 25, 2006 - 08:54 pm
| Hey, um, Anonymous? The premium isn't $499. It never was $499. It's $399.
Now, despite my suspicion that, because you conveniently exaggerated a number to support a point, you're far, far from impartial and that anything I say will fall on deaf ears (or eyes, as the case may be), one can't deny that at the very least, (Core stupidity notwithstanding) Microsoft offers you a choice.
If you just want to play 360 games, get the core. If you want to play (some) OG Xbox games and play on Live and such, get the premium. If you want to watch HD-DVD movies, get the add-on. And, theoretically, if you want to store boatloads of TV shows and Movies on there, get the bigger hard drive. My point is that Sony forces you to swallow the whole package, or nothing at all, and there are a lot of people out there that couldn't care less about downloading movies (Netflix is cheaper), couldn't care less about Hi-Def movies (many don't appreciate the difference, or care enough to pay for it), and surprise, there are quite a few (though increasingly rare) people out there that could care less about playing online (Not having to listen to 10th grade kids with 5th grade vocabularies hiding behind a mask of anonymity.)
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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=13480 | LoathyMcGee (27) Dec 07, 2006 - 09:26 pm
| Maybe it's just me, but I kinda liked the fact that he killed off Wash (Book, well... I thought there were some really interesting places they could take him, so I'm not so sure there).
It may seem like a strange comparison, but one of the reasons I've always loved George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series is the fact that *no one* is safe. Good guys lose, and lose hard. Bad guys win. In fact, there aren't really many "good" or "bad" guys to speak of, just terribly flawed people trying to make their way. It makes you pay attention, and it's a mechanism that really makes you care and fear for the characters when you realize that, "Wait a second, So-and-so might actually die." I actually kinda wanted him to go a little further and kill Simon, too.
I know that, being an ensemble piece, that's a dodgy proposition, but I like that queasy feel of realism. They aren't superheroes, and nobody is that lucky. And no matter how much you care, their lives will be snatched away from you.
That nonsense aside, I'm deeply, deeply fearful how this MMO will turn out. The world has the complexity necessary, but MMO's are a dodgy thing to make, and there's not a lot of room for error, and it's so easy to ruin a good idea on a long term scale. A universe, when we're speaking of games, isn't enough. It's never enough.
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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=13343 | LoathyMcGee (27) Nov 29, 2006 - 09:22 am
| Nine times out of ten, if you know how plot a course right and set up jump beacons you can cut an hour long journey to ten minutes.
I don't have some kind of issue with what you said (It is way too slow for a lot of people), but most of the things that people bitch about can be gotten around if you learn how the game works.
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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=13290 | LoathyMcGee (27) Nov 26, 2006 - 04:14 pm
| I loved both Halo and Halo 2 (single player, not multi, for that I'll just play UT or Quake, thank ya), so I'm a bonafied fanboy when it comes to Bungie.
My point is, fanboy that I am, even I have to admit that these Screenshots look like shit. Just few new shaders, and that's it. The polygon counts and textures are horrible for the levels themselves. There's no... pananche, no style to any of it. I know SS's are the bain of developers these days, but, I mean, *Jesus*. You can do better than that, Bungie.
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| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3549 | LoathyMcGee (27) Oct 26, 2006 - 06:23 am
| RJ, if you're going to accuse people of not doing research, it really helps your case if you show some evidence of having done your own.
If Fox went off his meds, he would be opening himself up to criticism, as you say. If he went off his meds. However, from everything I'm seeing here in front of me, the writhing around thing is a primary side effect of the medication. People with Parkinson's who don't take medication are stiff, frozen. They're barely able to talk. They take the stuff, and they can talk, but it causes muscle spasms.
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| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3305 | LoathyMcGee (27) Aug 29, 2006 - 11:28 pm
| It's kinda strange... If you watch one show at time, once a week like normal, it's edge of your seat kinda stuff. However, you see the show on DVD or the like one after the other, it suddenly seems derivative, predicable, and to perfectly honest, boring.
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| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3302 | LoathyMcGee (27) Aug 27, 2006 - 05:29 pm
| The reason it takes so long is because much of their manpower and resources are already booked on other missions and activities. The reason they have to ration out their resources so carefully is because they've virtually no money compared to most other government projects, because the people don't support them like they did. The government doesn't support them like did. If supplied the right monetary resources and forced to focus on doing just the one thing, they could have the Orion up by 2008 at the lastest, I guarantee you.
If you wonder why they don't have the backing they used to, all you have to do is look at the later Apollo missions. Experiments and movies made all over the moon, and the media can barely be bothered to mention the fact that there was a successful launch. The people, having "beat the Russians" didn't care anymore. Spaceflight seems to have often been considered interesting as some sort of competition between two superpowers, not in and of itself.
I wonder how those astronauts feel today having achieved what is, and what forever will be, one of the most importmant accomplishments in human history. I wonder if they realized that in less than 25 years, some 50% (according to most polls I've read) of the nation would doubt that it ever even happened? Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3278 | LoathyMcGee (27) Aug 21, 2006 - 06:53 pm
| The sad thing is there actually is a lot of really good, intelligent hip-hop out there. It's just that stupid crap like this and all the moronic shit on the radio over shadow it.
It's the same thing with most electronic music. People say, "I hate techno," when they've never heard anything but Top40 bullshit club-trance.
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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10964 | LoathyMcGee (27) Jul 05, 2006 - 11:34 pm
| I'll say this much, I played the game for over a year and a half, and I never knowingly met a kid. At least, not that wasn't gone from the game within a week. The stupid, the impatient, and the run-and-gun crowd don't tend to survive.
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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10964 | LoathyMcGee (27) Jul 03, 2006 - 11:53 am
| I love EVE... It makes every other MMO out there look like a child's game. Not to disparage those that love them, of course... WoW and the like have a good deal more immediate gratification and visceral fun, but simply aren't anything like as rewarding.
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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10932 | LoathyMcGee (27) Jul 01, 2006 - 05:29 am
| Yeah, it's really too bad... I've actually owned two Alienware comps, and my brother owns a more recent one (constructed mid-summer last year). The first was back when a 450 MHz PII was top of the line and was a dream to work with. The customer service was damn near perfect. Unfortunately, every comp from them has gotten progressively Dellitized: Dumbed down, cheaper hardware, weaker build quality, harder to tinker with... Not to mention worse and worse customer support. I used to recommend Alienware to anyone who'd listen.
Now I just ask my friend how much they want to spend and what they want to use it for, and I'll order the parts and build it myself. It's telling, I think, that a 26 year old with absolutely no formal training at all can easily out-build anything that Alienware puts out these days. It's not a sign that I'm that good- it's a sign that they've gotten that bad.
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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10923 | LoathyMcGee (27) Jun 29, 2006 - 02:07 pm
| Sega and Microsoft have nothing to do with it not being published; it's the ERSB's fault. Demos, at least the ones on Xbox Live, have to pass the ratings systems. It's already been passed by Japan's CERO, the USK, the OFLC, and PEGI. The ESRB, which monitors games for the US and Canada, is being slow to give it an official rating, so MS can't put the game up in those countries.
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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10643 | LoathyMcGee (27) Jun 10, 2006 - 01:15 am
| | I don't know... It happens pretty easily, especially for the MMO people. I remember it took some pretty draconian measures to break myself away from Gemstone III. I've tried my best to keep away from those types of games until EVE came along, and I had to stop my account while I could. I knew that if I just got a little further I wouldn't be able to just quit. Flag this | Edit this post |
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