I entirely blame this on Sony's memory card manufacturing department. I love my console, but goddamn, the low sales aren't surprising anyone considering that you gotta give up an arm and a leg for more storage space...
I'd argue it's more the insane price of the system itself combined with the frankly anemic library.
I have BioShock Infinite for free as of today, but I don't know if I want to play it because the combat looks gross
I don't know about anyone else, and maybe this might make me a prude, but I don't think I like feeling powerful at the expense of becoming an outright monster
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short version: Sony's giving it away for the PS3 if you have PS Plus, I'm having reservations because the violence is dissonant with the plot.
Sorry for not making that clear.
Trying not to spoil things, but I don't think the violence is dissonant with the plot at all. Booker is an antihero--not the Han Solo kind, either. He used to be a strikebreaker, among other things.
One could say Booker's only really initially sent as a means of transport from one imprisonment to another, depending on what the mysterious benefactors are planning for her. I dunno though.
And Homestuck's time travel...I've never had a problem with it, really.
I never really understood the powers of the two Felt members that can follow future/past trails, but everything else is fine. Homestuck's very strict about time-travel. No matter how you use it, it'll always end poorly unless you follow the actions of the alpha timeline. And that, specifically, made it not game-breaking.
I also don't mind Madoka's time-travel, mainly because it's usage is very specific.
The thing with the Felt members who follow past and future trails and the one that modifies timelines is that they all operate on that same kind of fixed pole of time in the same way that (generally) the alpha timeline cannot be messed with. They follow what must happen or must have happened. It's like reading back or ahead in a book, which fits with the theme of interactive metafiction throughout.
Time is one of the most important things in the life of a human. And time is effectively uncontrollable by humans.
If we manage to invent any manner of time manipulation, it'll be the biggest revolution in the history of human civilization. Period. Time travel would allow us to answer dozens of questions about history and philosophy. Time stopping would allow society's greatest to solve massive problems in a matter of minutes. If a man could revert time back by ten seconds, the amount of time it'd take me to write this sentence, things would never be the same again.
And that's why I can't stand things like Hermoine's Time Turner or Star Trek's various time travel methods. Time-traveling opens up at least a dozen alternate solutions for any obstacle that the protagonist faces. And yet these solutions will always be ignored because the author doesn't want the story to be about time travel, doesn't want to write sci-fi. And that bugs me.
And you might be thinking 'but Looper's about time travel, isn't it?' Technically, yes. But the movie went out of its way to not explore time travel on the grounds that they'd end up making diagrams with straw, and I think that forfeits its ability to be about time travel.
Time is one of the most important things in the life of a human. And time is effectively uncontrollable by humans.
If we manage to invent any manner of time manipulation, it'll be the biggest revolution in the history of human civilization. Period. Time travel would allow us to answer dozens of questions about history and philosophy. Time stopping would allow society's greatest to solve massive problems in a matter of minutes. If a man could revert time back by ten seconds, the amount of time it'd take me to write this sentence, things would never be the same again.
And that's why I can't stand things like Hermoine's Time Turner or Star Trek's various time travel methods. Time-traveling opens up at least a dozen alternate solutions for any obstacle that the protagonist faces. And yet these solutions will always be ignored because the author doesn't want the story to be about time travel, doesn't want to write sci-fi. And that bugs me.
Time is one of the most important things in the life of a human. And time is effectively uncontrollable by humans.
If we manage to invent any manner of time manipulation, it'll be the biggest revolution in the history of human civilization. Period. Time travel would allow us to answer dozens of questions about history and philosophy. Time stopping would allow society's greatest to solve massive problems in a matter of minutes. If a man could revert time back by ten seconds, the amount of time it'd take me to write this sentence, things would never be the same again.
And that's why I can't stand things like Hermoine's Time Turner or Star Trek's various time travel methods. Time-traveling opens up at least a dozen alternate solutions for any obstacle that the protagonist faces. And yet these solutions will always be ignored because the author doesn't want the story to be about time travel, doesn't want to write sci-fi. And that bugs me.
And you might be thinking 'but Looper's about time travel, isn't it?' Technically, yes. But the movie went out of its way to not explore time travel on the grounds that they'd end up making diagrams with straw, and I think that forfeits its ability to be about time travel.
I saw the other day the Sphinx's painted face.
She had painted her face in order to ogle Time.
And he has spared no other painted face in all the world but hers.
Delilah was younger than she, and Delilah is dust. Time hath loved nothing but this worthless painted face.
I do not care that she is ugly, nor that she has painted her face, so that she only lure his secret from Time.
Time dallies like a fool at her feet when he should be smiting cities.
Time never wearies of her silly smile.
There are temples all about her that he has forgotten to spoil.
I saw an old man go by, and Time never touched him.
Time that has carried away the seven gates of Thebes!
She has tried to bind him with ropes of eternal sand, she had hoped to oppress him with the Pyramids.
He lies there in the sand with his foolish hair all spread about her paws.
If she ever finds his secret we will put out his eyes, so that he shall find no more our beautiful things--there are lovely gates in Florence that I fear he will carry away.
We have tried to bind him with song and with old customs, but they only held him for a little while, and he has always smitten us and mocked us.
When he is blind he shall dance to us and make sport.
Great clumsy time shall stumble and dance, who liked to kill little children, and can hurt even the daisies no longer.
Then shall our children laugh at him who slew Babylon's winged bulls, and smote great numbers of the gods and fairies--when he is shorn of his hours and his years.
We will shut him up in the Pyramid of Cheops, in the great chamber where the sarcophagus is. Thence we will lead him out when we give our feasts. He shall ripen our corn for us and do menial work.
We will kiss they painted face, O Sphinx, if thou wilt betray to us Time.
And yet I fear that in his ultimate anguish he may take hold blindly of the world and the moon, and slowly pull down upon him the House of Man.
I didn't particularly find Looper to be so much a "time travel" movie as it was a movie that used a limited form thereof to ask a more general question.
That question, of course, being "if you got to see your future self, but had to kill him, would you do it?"
i'm willing to give Hermione's Time Turner a pass simply because:
1. it worked in a consistent manner (everything they did with the time turner, they had already 'done'), and 2. there was a clear reason given for why they couldn't just use it to solve every problem (it was a dangerous and heavily restricted experimental item which they weren't allowed to keep)
in general, i dislike the use of time travel as a plot device, since its implications rarely seem to have been fully considered. Doctor Who is a prime offender, actually.
Computer eye strain and computer vision syndrome are caused by our eyes and brain reacting differently to characters on a computer screen than they do to printed characters. Our eyes have little problem focusing on printed material that has dense black characters with well-defined edges. But characters on a computer screen don't have the same degree of contrast and definition.
what about screens with higher resolution than the printed page
The problem is screens, and how the eye and brain process words on a screen. It's different from the way the eye and brain process words on a page. Screens require constant focus.
Also, "different than" is terrible and nobody should ever say it.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
"Audacious of you to claim language decay when you are not speaking Old High German, but rather English. Re-write your post to sound more like Beowulf (Saxon) and then you might have some credence when you condemn language change."
Quoth doc (in response): "You are a very, very funny person. Your comment about Geoffrey Lukens’ audacity has had me in stictches all morning. How dare he rebuke users of modern English in anything other than Old High German? If you are not a professional writer, you should be. I very much want to share your conversation with others but I don’t know how well it’ll land with my idiot, facebook friends."
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One could say Booker's only really initially sent as a means of transport from one imprisonment to another, depending on what the mysterious benefactors are planning for her. I dunno though.
Also, the offerings aren't quite as to my taste as I'd hope nowadays, but when I got my system, Rayman Origins was free for Plus members.
Anyway, to go back to my EU4 rambling. The Colonial Nation mechanic in the new patch is dope as hell!
Lookie lookie
I ended up naming it Pernambuck, after Pernamboco, the province where the settlement began.
the governor has a great name btw
It'd be a killer deal if they made it $150 and threw a memory card and Tearaway in a bundle though.
I wonder what his favorite video game is.
I had a military adviser named William-Alexander Williams at one point.
/90s bumper sticker
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
" *flips table* ALTERNATE HISTORY! "
secondly, the history is not that alternate.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
She had painted her face in order to ogle Time.
And he has spared no other painted face in all the world but hers.
Delilah was younger than she, and Delilah is dust. Time hath loved
nothing but this worthless painted face.
I do not care that she is ugly, nor that she has painted her face, so
that she only lure his secret from Time.
Time dallies like a fool at her feet when he should be smiting cities.
Time never wearies of her silly smile.
There are temples all about her that he has forgotten to spoil.
I saw an old man go by, and Time never touched him.
Time that has carried away the seven gates of Thebes!
She has tried to bind him with ropes of eternal sand, she had hoped
to oppress him with the Pyramids.
He lies there in the sand with his foolish hair all spread about her paws.
If she ever finds his secret we will put out his eyes, so that he shall
find no more our beautiful things--there are lovely gates in Florence
that I fear he will carry away.
We have tried to bind him with song and with old customs, but they
only held him for a little while, and he has always smitten us and
mocked us.
When he is blind he shall dance to us and make sport.
Great clumsy time shall stumble and dance, who liked to kill little
children, and can hurt even the daisies no longer.
Then shall our children laugh at him who slew Babylon's winged bulls,
and smote great numbers of the gods and fairies--when he is shorn
of his hours and his years.
We will shut him up in the Pyramid of Cheops, in the great chamber
where the sarcophagus is. Thence we will lead him out when we
give our feasts. He shall ripen our corn for us and do menial work.
We will kiss they painted face, O Sphinx, if thou wilt betray to us Time.
And yet I fear that in his ultimate anguish he may take hold blindly
of the world and the moon, and slowly pull down upon him the
House of Man.
That question, of course, being "if you got to see your future self, but had to kill him, would you do it?"
1. it worked in a consistent manner (everything they did with the time turner, they had already 'done'), and
2. there was a clear reason given for why they couldn't just use it to solve every problem (it was a dangerous and heavily restricted experimental item which they weren't allowed to keep)
in general, i dislike the use of time travel as a plot device, since its implications rarely seem to have been fully considered. Doctor Who is a prime offender, actually.
Feedback would be appreciated.
just looked like his work
Also, "different than" is terrible and nobody should ever say it.
"Audacious of you to claim language decay when you are not speaking Old
High German, but rather English. Re-write your post to sound more like
Beowulf (Saxon) and then you might have some credence when you condemn
language change."
Quoth doc (in response): "You are a very, very funny person. Your comment about Geoffrey Lukens’
audacity has had me in stictches all morning. How dare he rebuke users
of modern English in anything other than Old High German? If you are not
a professional writer, you should be. I very much want to share your
conversation with others but I don’t know how well it’ll land with my
idiot, facebook friends."
different to - NO!
different from - YES!
or two hours
or any time in between