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SCEE = Psygnosis. Lemmings wasn't made by Psygnosis. It was published by Psygnosis. That said, SCEE definitely owns Psygnosis' own IPs -- like, say, Wipeout.

The yellow background shows how crappy a job I did cleaning up stray pixels on some of these. Bleh. Not like it matters anyway . I'd vote for Blue, but I'm too emotionally detached to care

Er, that's totally from "They Live" Er, that's totally "Full Metal Jacket" These are fine movie quotes, but not all that original Duke gaming quotes.

This happened to me too Luckily, because of having to redo one area over and over again, I somehow managed to remember the code. Phew.

That's what I used to think and that's what I always did (on the SNES, at least), until I (just moments ago!) realized that Yup.

Gamecard.

Exit's kinda fun in a puzzle-ish pseudo-"Lost Vikings" meets "Another World" kind of way.

Might as well post this here too. I KNOW EVERYTHINGGGGG

Bring on round 2, I say. Nobody's going to dethrone the Dr. from this batch.

I KNOW EVERYTHINGGGGGGGGG

Mon Dieu! Ou est la toilette?

I wasn't dismissive of anything but the "non-traditional" comment. Yeah, dual analog is an evolution... just like shoulder buttons, single analog, rumble control, analog triggers, and wireless. So why can't motion sensors be an evolution along those lines? At what point does an interface become "traditional"?

So I take it you hate all console FPS games, since they pretty much all use the "non-traditional" dual analog control scheme -- which has been around for a generation and a half so far.

No subscriptions, but occasionally I buy Edge (the only game magazine I buy... well, other than Game Developer), Game Developer, Wired, The Walrus (kind of like a Canadian Harpers), er, Harpers, Seed (http://www.seedmagazine.com/), Res (I miss Shift), Creative Arts and some random design/art magazines here and there, and occassionally one of the science mags (Discover, American Scientist, Scientific American, Discovering American, American Discoverer, whatever) depending on what the focus of the issue is -- mostly if its some abstract physics shit or space matters.

Depends on whether you count those that speak or those that speak well. I'd like to think that my five years of French immersion wasn't for naught, and I was able to safely order at Tim Horton's in French in the middle of Quebec once... but that's an essential skill for driving across Canada.

So you've never used a pen? What you describe is essentially like using a tablet, and I've gone full 16 hour work days using a tablet and let me tell you, that is a lot easier on the hand and the wrist than using a mouse.

http://www.google.com/mars/#lat=40.511711&lon=-8.942871&zoom=9&map=visible&q=face

You forgot the 100 Proof of Relativity. It's bound to get you relatively drunk.

If there was a shit-ton of alcohol in space, I think that would have been reason enough for the Russian space program to succeed immensely.

I use a tablet (well, not at this moment, I need to buy a new one) and I've played RTS and strategy games with it and it beats the mouse by far, IMO (though it obviously sucks for FPS games.) So if a game like Homeworld can work with the mouse or a tablet, then it can work with this. People here seem to be lacking in imagination. The fact is, not the entire screen of this has to be dedicated to the game. You can create a virtual keyboard. So you can imagine moving the cursor on the main area, and then you can have a 3d-depth virtual slider on the side. If you're using your finger to move a cursor, you can possibly use your thumb (much like how some mice have thumb scrollers on the side) to rotate. There are a lot of ways an interface like this could be used and used well. The only minor problem is that virtual keyboards have no tactile response, but that doesn't ruin the whole thing. I imagine a simple tablet (no display) would benefit from technology like this and if so, that requires no more hunching over to play than a mouse does already.

LUNA 9 DAMNIT. Why must you forget about Luna 9!? http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970907.html First soft landing on an extraterrestrial body. Here's a list of many many lunar (failures)missions. http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/HumanExplore/Exploration/EXLibrary/docs/facts/LSumm1.htm I also wrote a paper on space exploration, though I think mine was in grade school.

Not only that, but they were also first on Venus and the moon (intact, at least).

Just a note, I'm watching this on Space in Canada and we're behind (I'm just at the part when Ensign fucking Ro shows up!). I specifically avoided the other thread, so no spoilers please. FRAK Is it me or has the use of "frak" as a curse-substitute really gotten out of hand on this show? In the first few episodes, you'd hear it once in a while. Mostly in passing through some loud mouthed rant or some in-action scene. The first few times I heard it I actually thought they said "frag", partly because it was in battle. This season, though, they seem to use it all the time and it's becoming a little rediculous. I can understand why, on TV, you wouldn't want to say "fuck," but there are ways around that without resorting to search and replace. Like better dialogue. The second I heard them use "mother frak", the whole thing just fell apart on itself. I can't take the characters' anger seriously anymore if they use "frak". It's become a joke, and I'm sure it has to the writers (you just know some dude was snickering when he penned "mother frak.") Am I the only one?