To be fair, even the games with supposedly "great story" are mostly tripe. Compared to real literature game stories are basic and childlike, with the exception of Half Life 2. Even Mass Effect (which everyone rages about) has some pretty crappy story.
Life was much easier back in the day with my zip drive, voodoo 3, and Pentium 2 MMX overdrive. That thing had loads of EDO RAM. Adding the Kittyhawk was just overkill, but I'd like to think the Diamond Stealth 64 ensured that "outside" was just a concept. Poor bastard down the street had an Audrey 2000, and my brother got my old Sinclair 1000! (lol!)
Still far superior to the Adam though....
This has nothing to do with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, get real pal. This is because of the billions of dollars in advertising, marketing, and swag associated with the event. The biggest advertisers in the world have spent tens of millions just getting ready for it.
If there was a terrorist attack during the event, it would hurt the economy very deeply for years to come as people avoided the event.
Additionally it isn't a few tens of millions, the Iraq war is already in the trillions, we have scanners that cost hundreds of millions, the shredding of our founding document, the list goes on and on. All in the name of fighting terrorism to hide the failed foreign policy of the past 60 years.
A few tens of million.... that's some funny fucking shit right there.
One can't help but wonder why they would ever have opened up these channels of communication. What did they expect to get as concerns? Technically the Executive has no power to do anything about any of this, so why bother with the dialogue? Every issue has to be resolved in the other two branches, so what did they hope to accomplish?
Unless of course they're just compiling a list...
You took the blue pill didn't you.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/08/12/id-not-licensing-id-tech-5/
Bethesda is starting to depress me between this, the state of Brink and Rage, and they aren't really targeting pc anymore either.
No extra love for the people that made them what they are. (And with them buying id, well you can put it all together...) Though one could argue mods, though they claim mods will work for consoles I seriously doubt it will work correctly.
Sort of depressing. I've been playing since Arena. I suffered through the quest-items-stuck-in-walls Daggerfall, the interesting openness and towns of Morrowind, to the bland homogeneity of Oblivion. It's a shame there are not many PC purist companies left. Things are starting to get a little too cookie cutter and the bugs just get worse and worse. Meanwhile one of the omega developers of an entire genre got sucked into a company that's losing touch with it's roots. Sad, sad times...
I thought the whole point of abandonia was that all the games were licensed or owned by companies that are now no longer in business, thus there is no copyright. I don't think it's illegal is it?
I don't know that actually sounds pretty damn fun. I'm pretty sure I could fly it if the spawn point wasn't too far away. First thing I'd do is buzz the space station and give the astronauts in there something to talk about besides dried strawberries and Nintendo at 0 gravity.
Hopefully easier than Lunar Lander...
Er, other way around. Bah...
You're confusing Total Recall with Short Circuit.
I'm on the fence about Netflix these days, but it's not because of price. I can't navigate the site quickly anymore, and I usually end up watching something totally lame because I don't want to wait for the crap to scroll and there is no list view that I can find. It's like a giant picturebook for kids. Really annoying. I realize I was losing interest when Hulu became easier to use and navigate... : /
Regardless to what you think (are are ashamed to own up to...AC) the fact you are this passionate about shooters means that what he did worked. Shooters were *defined* by id, they very well might not be what they are today without them. It's a shame you are too childish to see this.
The last company I contracted for made me work two days after I had back surgery. I fielded calls from underlings while in the ER. Good times.
Skill was convincing the sysop to give you superuser access through any means necessary....
and avoiding $700/mo phone bills.
I stopped watching and reading the news once it was legal for them to lie. Until they fix that... I can never believe anything they say.
At least it's not legal in many foreign countries. So your post makes a lot of sense and I am pretty much of the same mind here.
Anything free is worth what you pay for it.
