after watching this trailer for Arkham City with the Penguin in it I am convinced that Bob Hoskins needs the be a hard man Mafioso version of the character... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g39nrY7Dks
You know what I hate about some humans in the world?
Whenever they defend their own country, they list all the things their country has invented. It's just bullshit. It's not a matter of "what if those weren't invented by us", since if it wasn't invented by one, somebody else would have.
Hell, the first airplane could have been made by someone from Belgium if the Wrights didn't think of it.
Also, if you really want to boast, the Dutch invented the freaking telescope. That's like, the second best invention before the invention of sliced bread.
Also, I didn't even know the Dutch had the first multinational corporation AND stock market.
Holy crap, the submarine as well?! Telescopes? They discovered SPERM CELLS?!
You know what I hate about some humans in the world?
Whenever they defend their own country, they list all the things their country has invented. It's just bullshit. It's not a matter of "what if those weren't invented by us", since if it wasn't invented by one, somebody else would have.
Hell, the first airplane could have been made by someone from Belgium if the Wrights didn't think of it.
Also, if you really want to boast, the Dutch invented the freaking telescope. That's like, the second best invention before the invention of sliced bread.
Also, I didn't even know the Dutch had the first multinational corporation AND stock market.
Holy crap, the submarine as well?! Telescopes? They discovered SPERM CELLS?!
A microscope (which was invented in the Netherlands) is used to view cells, not a telescope.
Also, what's wrong with being proud of one's nation's accomplishments?
You say that another person from another country would have invented the airplane and it might be true, but there have been many attempts by many people from various countries throughout history who failed to successfully maintain flight. There's nothing wrong with being proud that someone from one's country was first to succeed at something, and I don't see how doing so belittles others; unless someone says "your country sucks and mine is awesome because..." but then that's just arrogant, rude and has nothing really to do with pride in accomplishment.
There's nothing right about being proud of the rough and arbitrarily defined legal jurisdiction you happen to live in, specifically when the reasoning is nothing better than "I was born here".
The endless bickering, battling and boasting of whose country/state/province/city/street/10x10 patch of dirt is superior amazes me. With all of the advancements mankind has made, we still can't get past such an inconsequential thing.
Humans aren't ready to make extraterrestrial contact. We still haven't accepted our own diversity.
First, humans never will make extraterrestrial contact. Any aliens that may or may not exist live too far away to get here in any sort of timely fashion to make doing so worth the trip.
Second, if I can have pride in my college football team of choice, why can't I have a positive opinion of or pride in the country in which I live? It is actually possible to have pride in one's country without being a complete jerk about it. Why do you say that someone who enjoys living where they do automatically has a superiority complex?
Also, what's wrong with being proud of one's nation's accomplishments?
You say that another person from another country would have invented the airplane and it might be true, but there have been many attempts by many people from various countries throughout history who failed to successfully maintain flight. There's nothing wrong with being proud that someone from one's country was first to succeed at something, and I don't see how doing so belittles others; unless someone says "your country sucks and mine is awesome because..." but then that's just arrogant, rude and has nothing really to do with pride in accomplishment.
There's nothing wrong with being proud of something, even though you had absolutely no part in it whatsoever. It's the part where you use it to win over an argument. It's one thing to defend your own country when people like to insult it and / or the inhabitants, but to retort with such things is just retarded, and ignorant, and doesn't really show you so much as being proud but more as being arogant. Which completely proves the point of the insultee.
You know what I hate about some humans in the world?
Whenever they defend their own country, they list all the things their country has invented. It's just bullshit. It's not a matter of "what if those weren't invented by us", since if it wasn't invented by one, somebody else would have.
"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history that we make today." (Chicago Tribune, 1916).
This from one of the many inventors of the automobile, Henry Ford (and please don't think of this in the out-of-context version used in Huxley's "Brave New World"). This is a "don't live in the past" quote, and I think it applies.
Past achievements and past misdeeds should be remembered, but "pride" and "shame" for things our ancestors have done is a concept I can't much wrap my head around.
if I can have pride in my college football team of choice, why can't I have a positive opinion of or pride in the country in which I live? It is actually possible to have pride in one's country without being a complete jerk about it.
I think you can, no problem. I wouldn't, but that is a rather country-specific thing. People who lack patriotism can be seen as quite subversive elements in some countries. In Germany, it seems more on the plus side. I'll try not to judge any of these views, but it's hard.
Supporting your football team is something I can really understand. After all, that is a group of individual people, possibly without much self-inflicted negative stuff in their history, who join forces to achieve success. I can admire that. It's a transparent, uncomplicated, exciting, up-and-down story about some people who live in your immediate surroundings and can somehow actually represent you, your town, university or whatever.
I am definitely an extreme case, but the understanding stops there. Nothing wrong with being proud of your country or cheering at "your" team in diverse sports World Cups, but I just don't get it. I've never seen these people, much less shaken their hands, they get the big bucks, so I don't see why they even need my admiration. Seriously, who are these people?
Same thing with inventors and artists. I turn to them for inspiration, but not for "pride" if one of them happened to be German.
And why should they, why should anyone? I really hope you’re not the one who puts them in the awkward position of having to "defend" the individual actions of millions of people, past and present. How are you supposed to do this, seriously? Countries are massively complex systems that undergo serious changes in their "lifespan". Change, good or bad, might be tied to individuals, so let’s talk about those individuals. Individual governments, oh yes, judge them, individual political systems, individual people, go ahead. But how could you ever judge an entire country for anything?
First, humans never will make extraterrestrial contact. Any aliens that may or may not exist live too far away to get here in any sort of timely fashion to make doing so worth the trip.
Second, if I can have pride in my college football team of choice, why can't I have a positive opinion of or pride in the country in which I live? It is actually possible to have pride in one's country without being a complete jerk about it. Why do you say that someone who enjoys living where they do automatically has a superiority complex?
I never said that at all. Read my comment again: I'm talking about people fighting, arguing, and killing over "pride". I have nothing against patriotism, as odd of a concept as it may be to me personally. I'm a big believer in "one planet, one people", but I have no qualms about respectfully celebrating one's land.
As for the "extraterrestrial" comment, it wasn't meant to be taken literally. The idea was that we're too busy fighting amongst ourselves to truly evolve as a society.
Now that I have managed to cool my laptop, I've been spending the day with it connected to my TV via HDMI.
Beautiful picture, and sound comes out great too.
Rigged my 360 controller up with some of the software, (even setting up the right stick as a mouse to make things a bit easier).
Man snes/megadrive games look fantastic with the right settings on a screen this big, (though I do prefer the authenticity of the console.
That's quite coincidental, I did exactly the same thing with my PC recently (right down to using a 360 pad's analogue stick as a mouse). I recommend using the 360 controller to play some classic adventure titles via ScummVM. It's great to kick back on a sofa, and play Day of the Tentacle on a large HD TV, without developing back ache.
I've been doing the same, actually. Except I was using a PS3 controller until recently when I broke down and bought an actual PC controller(I have a 360 one but I never liked the design and only take it out for games that use it). Just easier to program and assign buttons...plus the analog didnt work properly, so the stick would only register 4 directions. Now everything is just peachy.
I wish more than ever that LucasArts' would allow Telltale to develop another Monkey Island game, what with the graphics for The Walking Dead and Jurassic Park looking as amazing as they do. In particular, imagine a new Monkey Island with the art style of The Walking Dead. *drool*
Imagine a new Monkey Island game with the original art style of the second game, and N.C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle paintings, translated to fully realized 3D environments. If they're not going to do it like that, they might as well not do it at all.
Imagine a new Monkey Island game with the original art style of the second game, and N.C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle paintings, translated to fully realized 3D environments. If they're not going to do it like that, they might as well not do it at all.
You don't ask for much do you Mr. Fawful?
... although that would be like 50 Christmases at once.
In other news, they just found a 125kg WWII aircraft bomb in my neighborhood. Wonderful. The entire area gets evacuated in a 300 meter radius, 4000 people, on Monday evening so they can defuse it. That means that I can't go home after work, for ca. 6 hours. On a MONDAY. Rats. I'm lucky if I can get home by midnight.
Sooo... that was my Monday. Thankfully, they cut it short (pun intended, but probably not understood). Such a weird situation. So many people, homeless for hours, walking through the streets. It felt more like they were just quietly leaving some fair, it was more like there was some festivity nearby than a 125kg heavy, seriously explosive WWII memento.
So damn easy to use!
Commercial version is dirt cheap too.
I remember how damn fiddly settng up arcade stuff, and programming glovepie scripts were.
This is just plug in, map out, and go!
And it works with pretty much everything too.
Even software that has native 360 controller support.
That takes priority over it, so Fallout, Alpha Protocol, set them to 360 controller mode, and play.
I wish all software was like this. It would be a better world.
And I am still gobsmacked at how nice the HDMI output on this laptop is.
Games look on par with their console counterparts.
Fallout 3 on PC looked the same as it did on 360
And that is just dandy with me.
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"[On the contrary, I found them to be] quite dull. Boring, boring, boring..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Winehouse
A popular British singer who apparently died yesterday.
From unannounced causes... *wink*
There are no words for this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyJpYoGhdsY
Also, this is a better representation of who Amy Winehouse is.
Guess she should have gone to rehab.
Too soon?
after watching this trailer for Arkham City with the Penguin in it I am convinced that Bob Hoskins needs the be a hard man Mafioso version of the character...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g39nrY7Dks
Anyone who has seen him in the movie The Long Good Friday.. should know he is perfect for it.
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2068186905/
Jeffrey Combs was awesome in every Star Trek role he had, his best being Weyoun (all 5 of them!).
Better than Commander Shran?
Whenever they defend their own country, they list all the things their country has invented. It's just bullshit. It's not a matter of "what if those weren't invented by us", since if it wasn't invented by one, somebody else would have.
Hell, the first airplane could have been made by someone from Belgium if the Wrights didn't think of it.
Also, if you really want to boast, the Dutch invented the freaking telescope. That's like, the second best invention before the invention of sliced bread.
Also, I didn't even know the Dutch had the first multinational corporation AND stock market.
Holy crap, the submarine as well?! Telescopes? They discovered SPERM CELLS?!
A microscope (which was invented in the Netherlands) is used to view cells, not a telescope.
Also, what's wrong with being proud of one's nation's accomplishments?
You say that another person from another country would have invented the airplane and it might be true, but there have been many attempts by many people from various countries throughout history who failed to successfully maintain flight. There's nothing wrong with being proud that someone from one's country was first to succeed at something, and I don't see how doing so belittles others; unless someone says "your country sucks and mine is awesome because..." but then that's just arrogant, rude and has nothing really to do with pride in accomplishment.
Humans aren't ready to make extraterrestrial contact. We still haven't accepted our own diversity.
Second, if I can have pride in my college football team of choice, why can't I have a positive opinion of or pride in the country in which I live? It is actually possible to have pride in one's country without being a complete jerk about it. Why do you say that someone who enjoys living where they do automatically has a superiority complex?
There's nothing wrong with being proud of something, even though you had absolutely no part in it whatsoever. It's the part where you use it to win over an argument. It's one thing to defend your own country when people like to insult it and / or the inhabitants, but to retort with such things is just retarded, and ignorant, and doesn't really show you so much as being proud but more as being arogant. Which completely proves the point of the insultee.
Yes. To be fair though, he was one of two good things about Enterprise, the other being T'Pol. Not for Jolene Blalock's acting so much as... well...
That.
This from one of the many inventors of the automobile, Henry Ford (and please don't think of this in the out-of-context version used in Huxley's "Brave New World"). This is a "don't live in the past" quote, and I think it applies.
Past achievements and past misdeeds should be remembered, but "pride" and "shame" for things our ancestors have done is a concept I can't much wrap my head around.
I think you can, no problem. I wouldn't, but that is a rather country-specific thing. People who lack patriotism can be seen as quite subversive elements in some countries. In Germany, it seems more on the plus side. I'll try not to judge any of these views, but it's hard.
Supporting your football team is something I can really understand. After all, that is a group of individual people, possibly without much self-inflicted negative stuff in their history, who join forces to achieve success. I can admire that. It's a transparent, uncomplicated, exciting, up-and-down story about some people who live in your immediate surroundings and can somehow actually represent you, your town, university or whatever.
I am definitely an extreme case, but the understanding stops there. Nothing wrong with being proud of your country or cheering at "your" team in diverse sports World Cups, but I just don't get it. I've never seen these people, much less shaken their hands, they get the big bucks, so I don't see why they even need my admiration. Seriously, who are these people?
Same thing with inventors and artists. I turn to them for inspiration, but not for "pride" if one of them happened to be German.
And why should they, why should anyone? I really hope you’re not the one who puts them in the awkward position of having to "defend" the individual actions of millions of people, past and present. How are you supposed to do this, seriously? Countries are massively complex systems that undergo serious changes in their "lifespan". Change, good or bad, might be tied to individuals, so let’s talk about those individuals. Individual governments, oh yes, judge them, individual political systems, individual people, go ahead. But how could you ever judge an entire country for anything?
Beautiful picture, and sound comes out great too.
Rigged my 360 controller up with some of the software, (even setting up the right stick as a mouse to make things a bit easier).
Man snes/megadrive games look fantastic with the right settings on a screen this big, (though I do prefer the authenticity of the console itself...)
I never said that at all. Read my comment again: I'm talking about people fighting, arguing, and killing over "pride". I have nothing against patriotism, as odd of a concept as it may be to me personally. I'm a big believer in "one planet, one people", but I have no qualms about respectfully celebrating one's land.
As for the "extraterrestrial" comment, it wasn't meant to be taken literally. The idea was that we're too busy fighting amongst ourselves to truly evolve as a society.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRByAY3y9iE
That's quite coincidental, I did exactly the same thing with my PC recently (right down to using a 360 pad's analogue stick as a mouse). I recommend using the 360 controller to play some classic adventure titles via ScummVM. It's great to kick back on a sofa, and play Day of the Tentacle on a large HD TV, without developing back ache.
'Oh well. A man can dream, a man can dream'.
You don't ask for much do you Mr. Fawful?
... although that would be like 50 Christmases at once.
Sheesh, it's not like that stuff is THAT HARD.
Meh, I guess you're right. I regularly shit out the finest pieces of art every morn. But then again, I do eat my Shreddies.
So does Ryan Jones.
Counting the stars in the sky? Or if that's too mundane, you could always take up serial killing.
Ha... awesome reference. +1 to you my friend.
Sooo... that was my Monday. Thankfully, they cut it short (pun intended, but probably not understood). Such a weird situation. So many people, homeless for hours, walking through the streets. It felt more like they were just quietly leaving some fair, it was more like there was some festivity nearby than a 125kg heavy, seriously explosive WWII memento.
So damn easy to use!
Commercial version is dirt cheap too.
I remember how damn fiddly settng up arcade stuff, and programming glovepie scripts were.
This is just plug in, map out, and go!
And it works with pretty much everything too.
Even software that has native 360 controller support.
That takes priority over it, so Fallout, Alpha Protocol, set them to 360 controller mode, and play.
I wish all software was like this. It would be a better world.
And I am still gobsmacked at how nice the HDMI output on this laptop is.
Games look on par with their console counterparts.
Fallout 3 on PC looked the same as it did on 360
And that is just dandy with me.