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good sci-fi (space exploration, cyberpunk)

in a horribly insulated trailer, with electricity and heat combined, it ranged from something like $180-450/month depending on weather. (450 was like a one time event last winter, probably same month faramir had 350 (january)).

in an apartment now, it's more like $40-80. With a $50 rebate each month, my bill has actually been like $8/month for the last few months. I haven't lived through a winter yet though, not sure what difference that will make.

pat is awesome. I'm still only 2 hours in, got a long way to go.

k that sucks a lot... I don't know him that much but he was definitely born to be animated batman

there generally aren't things to find in the levels, no, though I can't speak for all of them

anything you get you tend to get automatically after beating a boss

captpackrat posted...

Energy Tanks starting with MM2

only consumable items though, not something like MMX's reusable energy tanks

170

hi magus

do you still work for <certain company>? are you hard at work making <certain product> suck less?

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Ness and the Snezz

ness and sness (all hard Ss)

snez definitely sounds dumb

I used to fry it a long time ago. it's more or less better, but it shrivels up a bit and tastes like a cheap hotdog.

why go to the next level when you can go light years beyond

oh are you helly?

how many playthroughs? my ~97.5% playthrough took 281 hours... (that means percent from end of game, not total completion) (which I consider insane... I was at 350ish for the other games but that's after like 4-10 playthroughs each)

Hard_Light posted...

you shut your fuckin mouth they should have made it bigger

but I'm too old and exhausted to finish it... 8)

it's more or less my only issue with it, that I don't have the stamina for it. I've played the other from games (that I can) to death, but this one, "to death" came before the end of 1 playthrough.

I do get that it's just me though. if people like it that long, that's fine.

adjl posted...

Wouldn't that just be Dark Souls?

no

I think it's too big to balance well, although they are making some changes.

really I think it's just too big. they could have cut half the content and made a much tighter game and it would still have been great.

is it from something or just a random lighthouse?

hypnox posted...

Yeah, even as a kid I hated shoots and ladders because there was nothing to do but sit there and watch was happens with the dice results.

I don't like that either, but apparently it is a very ancient game and that is the philosophical point of the game.

rjsilverthorn posted...

There are things to do, but the game actually does a pretty terrible job of explaining what they are or how to go about them. I have no idea how you are supposed to figure some of this stuff out if you just picked up the game and started playing it.

you basically have to use the wiki. just consider it to be an online manual. I don't think there's any way in heck you could understand the game without the wiki. (it's still hard to grasp why you would do certain things even with the wiki.)

hypnox posted...

and Minecraft doesn't really have any meaningful goals to it

well it does now, but it shouldn't preclude the exploration and survival parts of the game.

nephews always immediately want to do the next goal, without having done anything to establish a foothold in the world first. going to the nether unprepared with kids scampering about like it's not dangerous is a fantastic source of stress.

yes, probably too much. not a lot recently though except with nephews. but they're obsessed with servers, pvp, and speedrunning, and getting them to play survival is not easy.

There's a gremlin on the side of the bus!

you can get bags of frozen vegetables. microwave them in some water maybe with some salt and/or oil and they make a great healthy snack.

(I try to do this but only actually eat them occasionally.)

Lokarin posted...

The Safeway here used to have these perfect snack burritos that were rather spicy... and they don't sell them anymore

reminds me of a particular kind of burrito that was at 7-Eleven a long time ago. not sure if they still exist but I doubt it. probably not very healthy but had a great beefy cheese flavor to it.

everyone has their own interpretation

the traditional protestant view is summed up in this 16th century book, written by the King James of the KJV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXVQCss9yyo

(the answer there is "yes")

but any particular christian can be more or less forgiving/accepting than others

ParanoidObsessive posted...

a lot of players who absolutely loved it in the beginning of the game got hugely disillusioned once they hit disc two

not to those extremes ("absolutely loved" and "hugely disillusioned") but this does roughly describe my experience with the game IIRC

Final Fantasy 4 sort of? (I seem to have thought Cecil and Golbez were implied to be brothers but maybe they're not?)

Battletech sort of (neice VS uncle I think)

other fantasy that she doesn't already have? LotR trilogy, Wheel of Time, Game of Thrones sets? Maybe Dune?

the first game I owned and played was Donkey Kong Jr

(oh, but then as always I forget about TRS-80 games.... in that case I have no idea)

punk, I think, has a bit of a "rebel against the government"/dystopian implication. so, take the sci-fi part and put it in a more utopian setting, and I guess you'd have the "punk opposite". it kind of loses a lot of flavor that way though.

From reviews and footage I've seen, Castlevania 1 is my "favorite" so far. I'm currently trying to beat it but it's tough.

I think but am not sure that Frogger was the first game I saw but didn't get to play and only saw for a second.

the first game I got to play I'm not sure, but possibly Vector on the Colecovision. it was at least one of the first games I played a fair bit.

(age unknown... between 4 and 8 probably)

GameReviews posted...

Wait! He can't kill anybody if he doesn't know which one's of the real Krusty!

hwa huh hwuna hwuna hwa hwa ho

Descent was like that too where it had a way better soundtrack (as in, same songs higher quality) on CD based ports

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SfK9xNXFr4

this is pretty good for something approaching "scary"

THE CRUCIFIX - Gothorum Aurora (Full Album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSmvNbdcq6w

VideoboysaysCube posted...

This got me thinking...how come we haven't monetized mathematical equations? Someone had to take an extensive amount of time to come up with them. But as far as I know, any scientist can use any equation for their own commercial purposes.

that's very similar to whether algorithms should be patentable; IMO and I think the majority consensus is that they shouldn't be, but it is debatable.

I think there isn't enough variation in algorithms and equations. if you want something to scale a certain way, you need a particular kind of equation. if you want to solve a particular problem, you need a particular kind of algorithm. these pieces need to be reusable by everyone, that's what makes the engineering possible in the first place.

even mechanical patents are kind of iffy, where the original intent is to get wide-spread work on creative solutions to problems. there is much more variation in mechanical solutions than for math/programming so it may make a bit more sense for them to be patented; but I still think it's iffy, and the patent office is IIRC notoriously behind schedule, just inundated with patent applications that will basically never get looked at.

hypnox posted...

Lotta accidents every night.

something I always find depressing is that if you try to look up a recent accident it's usually pretty difficult (I've never succeeded) to find because there are so many accidents, all you can find are articles of past accidents in the same place

milk or dark depending on mood

("real" milk chocolate though, which needs a particular ingredient, cocoa butter IIRC)

I can think of a couple that head in that direction, but not that are genuinely "scary"

Rammstein - Mein Teil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBvwcH4XX6U

there's whole Darksynth and Horrorsynth subgenres but I find most of it fun not actually scary

even most Doom music is not "scary". Doom 64 music kind of is though...

Doom 64 Map 12 - Altar of Pain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leUcIpcMZRs

adjl posted...

their colour scheme is literally just red and white

it depends what you're looking at. some logos, like the circle with a picture of a bottle, have more like 8 colors, including some gradients.

and it's not actually "red and white", there are particular shades of red and white that they use. RGB(192, 47, 47) seems like a common one for red, but there is also RGB(227, 30, 37). (this is assuming what I get from an image search is accurate, which it very likely isn't.)

for white I see RGB(254, 254, 254) but also RGB(242, 242, 242).

the official canada flag red is, at least for logos I think, RGB(235, 45, 55) (the one for flags seems to be hidden in a standards document; according to wiki it is pure red (255, 0, 0). there are different ones for indoor/outdoor.)

interestingly wiki says something like that the "pure red" for the canada flag can be pulled from a Pantone "color specifier" as PMS 032 (flag red 100%) or PMS 485 (for screens).

adjl posted...

how many colours have to be shared to count as infringement

this would be for if we wanted to make it copyright infringement in general, which is not the original issue. I've only said it becomes less morally ok as it goes up. I have no idea where the line is actually drawn, if anywhere.

in the original situation, the answer is something like "any number of colors, even one, if they are contained within a copyrighted color book file". no license for file = colors from that file do not get loaded.

Link was my original main. these days I'm best with Bowser, though I wonder a bit if he's slightly OP.

_Inaba_ posted...

Always found it quite odd how you have things like the youtube algorithm, but you have a search bar? I mean, what's the point when you can search?

not sure why this came up, but "search" is the algorithm. if youtube doesn't want you to find a video it won't come up in a youtube search. it might have a better chance appearing in a regular google search though, maybe that's what you mean.

I wouldn't think a slurpee could do that. either something with bacteria in it or stomach flu? hope it's not the latter, stomach flu is terrible.

whatever it is, hope it passes quickly...

I'm in an apartment now and there are lots of kids around here so I wonder what it will be like. I hope I don't have to ignore tons of knocking.

Amuseum posted...

coke doesn't copyright or own colors. an infringement can only happen if everything, including colors, pattern, font, etc. has great resemblance to another copyright or trademark.

I think if, for example, Pepsi had an ad or image, and that ad or image used some 10+ identical RGB colors as a common Coke image, that Coke would have grounds to complain. at some point it can no longer be accidental (unless there's another explanation how those particular colors were arrived at). if it's not strictly technically trademarkable/copyrightable, ok, I don't know.

Amuseum posted...

Pantone may own the copyright to a specific representation of colors. However as stated above, other people can legally represent the same colors using other methods or medium.

you can use whatever colors you want/happen to use, but it becomes morally grey if you happen to be using a set of 10-20 colors that match a copyrighted set exactly. (there are something like 1.7x10^72 sets of 10 24-bit colors, so you cannot accidentally use the same 10. though it might get tricky if there are obvious sets of 10 colors to generate, like 10 grey shades or something.)

I think I have reasons to like and dislike them all, so overall I no longer have a preference, even though I would prefer summer and despise winter if I was just judging the seasons themselves and not my own situation during them.

adjl posted...

so claiming any sort of ownership of that is just stupid.

not sure it's "stupid". you shouldn't be able to, for example, use some random company's color scheme (down to the RGB values) for your own commercial purposes, like Pepsi's or Coca Cola's, etc (endless examples).

if I make a logo for my company using Coca Cola's RGB values, that's at least pretty sketchy if not blatantly infringement. (maybe there are better examples if Coca Cola has like 2 colors or something; the more colors are involved the more valid it becomes to be protected).

No, I won't be?

adjl posted...

So we get back to "you're plagiarizing if you decide to use this combination of colours without a license so we're going to ruin your 20-year-old files unless you pay up."

if by "combination of colors" you specifically mean linking to a copyrighted color-book file, yes.

you can use those colors independently, just like you can write your own prose or make your own font independently. but you can't look into the file, extract the color information, and use that color scheme yourself based off the color file, that is "plagiarism". it's directly analogous to other forms of plagiarism.

(like, you can't copy code directly off of wikipedia for a programming assignment, even though implementing it yourself based on the knowledge you get from the article, you will end up with something that looks very very similar.)

(again, this is my limited understanding, etc.etc.)

adjl posted...

So, rather than replacing everything with black in older files that reference the copyrighted sources, photoshop could have just replaced each offending colour with the corresponding generic RGB value?

no, because that would violate the copyright. (that's "plagiarism".) the point is that the collection of colors as a whole has value above just being colors. if you want your image to make use of the color collection that another company has come up with and requires a license for, then you need a license to use it.

for the font analogy, no you cannot just screen-shot the font's letters and make images out of them and use those images in your game, that is still violating copyright.

replacing with black is like replacing with some default font (like Courier New or something) when a font file copyright validation fails.

(note that this is all just my own limited understanding from what I've read thus far; I'm not an expert on this subject and I could be wrong about this.)

adjl posted...

That's certainly what it sounds like, though, if the colours in question are being replaced by black. There's potentially room to justify copyrighting a palette (though even that's a stretch), but by the sounds of things, every colour in that palette is just unavailable to use unless you pay for them.

only if the color is directly linked to a copyrighted color book (ACB file?). it's not that the color itself is owned, it's that the image is linking to an owned color source. (not unlike linking to a copyrighted font or something).

Jen0125 posted...

Are you just talking about color stories? Like for example in a season of fashion there may be a popular color story that designers are adhering to?

I also don't believe that should be able to be cppywritten, trademarked or restricted for use.

sort of. a color scheme. but not just a color scheme, but one that has been written into a copyrighted file by a particular company, complete with a license for use, very similar to font files. it's not just a singular color*, and you can use any particular color independent of the color scheme, but if an image is linking to a copyrighted color book file (.ACB I think) that you don't have the license for, you can't use the colors from that color book file.

(* I suppose the issue would still exist for copyrighted color book files that happen to contain only a single color, but you could (I think) still use that color independent of the file.)

(this is very similar to fonts where we take for granted that we are communicating using particular fonts, but that is only possible because they have been provided to us within the operating system or software (chrome, etc.). if you write software in a particular O/S you get to use the O/S fonts, but for example with game programming, you are actually working somewhat beneath/apart-from the O/S and cannot use O/S fonts, and have to obtain licenses for any fonts you want to use, (or use royalty-free fonts, or make your own fonts, etc.))

Jen0125 posted...

charging for pantone COLORS not gradient combinations

it's colors that come from a color book. I don't mean gradient, although that would be even more justified and may actually be a part of this too. but for example if I come up with a color book of 25 particular colors that have mathematical relationships such that they work particularly good together in certain ways, that is something that is (I guess) justified to copyright. (I guess in other words, there's more to a collection of colors than just color. there's color relationships. and coming up with useful/pleasant color relationships is hard work that deserves to be protected.)

this is not an issue of a company claiming the rights to the color RGB(123, 200, 215) or something, which is how articles about it will be tempted to... paint the issue.