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Comment Re:Motion sickness (Score 1) 109

Ya, it was almost as bad as that stupid "Mario" game... I just feel like I'm jumping on koopas down a hallway, you know?

Free roaming is nice, but 3d graphics don't necessitate non-linear gameplay. If you can concede being railroaded, as people are implicitly willing to do in scrolling games, you might find you enjoy the actual gameplay a lot more.

That said, Mirror's Edge just felt like a well done 3d Mario to me, and I agree it didn't deserve too terribly much praise.

Comment Re:Fuck Nokia (Score 1, Interesting) 601

Ya, it doesn't seem very likely that people would continue to buy phones that reliably make phone calls when they could spend more than I spent on my first car to get a phone that drops your call if you accidentally hold it comfortably.

Nokia makes good phones. Your prophecy will only come true if they completely ignore their workers and hold tight with Microsoft.

Comment Re:Rape = Bad (Score 1) 421

Actually, I'm completely serious. I mean, why not just do like we did with taking the impossible square root of negative one and make division by zero another imaginary axis? 1/0 =k, 2/0 = 2k.

Look, saying the only reason for not dividing by zero is that it's "undefined" suggests that the only reason we can divide by two is because it is defined. Does math only exist because we've defined it? If not, then division by zero must have some definition we simply don't know yet. Otherwise, if we do have to give make up a definition for it to have one, then it not having one just means mathematicians are too lazy to come up with one.

Often I've heard the conceptual argument where you can't divide something into parts of size zero, it doesn't make sense. But, seriously, it does. You can divide something into zero-sized parts all day long, and you'd keep getting them forever. That's called infinity.

I'm sorry, but "undefined" is not a sufficiently satisfying explanation to me, and you really shouldn't be happy with it either.

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