Comment Re:Mental illness is no laughing matter (Score 1) 421
Actually, it's quite common - and quite Constitutional - for courts to maintain lists of vexatious litigants, and to restrict their filing in various ways.
Actually, it's quite common - and quite Constitutional - for courts to maintain lists of vexatious litigants, and to restrict their filing in various ways.
Champions Online is Cryptic Studios' latest entry into the Superhero MMORPG genre, representing several years of advancement in game design both for Cryptic and for MMOs as a whole. It's no longer a new field, and there are now certain expectations about what an MMO should contain, and how it should play. Two major factors to a new game's success or failure are the standards they embrace and do well, and the ones they reject and do differently. Champions Online succeeds at adapting many established concepts, while still setting themselves apart from the typical swords & sorcery backdrop. Read on for the rest of my thoughts.
It allowed you to see all the upcoming conflicts on one page, and to see multiple conflicts for each timeslot. You could see, for example, that six shows were competing for the 7-8 pm timeframe, and choose which one to record. (And whether it would be a one-time priority, or to bump it up on an ongoing basis.) You could also do this with a mouse, which I would love to do with the TiVo - their refusal to give us an online interface is baffling and irritating.
TiVo's system is smart enough to resolve most conflicts--smart enough that I don't normally need to resolve conflicts. But it would be nice to be able to see, once a week, what the upcoming conflicts are, and choose my own priorities for each one. Not a big deal, but it's the sort of thing TiVo should have implemented at some point in the last five or six years.
I'm a long-term TiVo user, but this story reminds me of my simmering frustration with TiVo. Years ago I used a Hauppauge card, and their interface had innovations that TiVo still hasn't picked up on, like a vastly superior conflicts-resolution system. Is there a decent alternative to TiVo, with a better interface? Cable-company solutions are generally poor, as I understand it, and I frankly don't have time to roll my own Myth system. (I would consider an out-of-the-box Myth product, though.) I'd appreciate informed recommendations.
It's right here. The term "know-nothings" was probably invented for these people.
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