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it's doable (with an external mouse)

despite that, those FPS games were not made with mouse look into mind

I think supcom had some innovative things

Graphics haven't really been a big issue for me for old games. It's usually the controls that gets to me. Often it's how unresponsive the controls are and something it's just that I got used to the new method (e.g. FPS games). It's seriously difficult to play, for example, ROTT or Duke3D.

Yep... Tron is quite nice. Still one of my favorite movies. As for Rollerball, still have to see both incarnations of it. Maybe tonight is a good time.

Rollerball?

I should play those games some time, they're are still in shrink wrap.

Maybe it's both, may it's caused by CO2 _and_ sunspots, or even more things. The problem is that the media has focused on CO2 and pinned it as the definite cause of "global warming" and thus silencing researches that are not sure about it an want to perform additional research. What would the direct caused be of reducing CO2 output, maybe it's even worse for humanity. The thing about performing proper research is to use a controlled environment, problem with climate research is that you don't have a controlled environment. On top of that, when you're creating a solution for a problem you must also work out the change impact it could have. Small scale climate experiments are not really viable for solving this "global warming" thing. But then again, "99.9%" have agreed that Gore's problem identification is the one and only definite answer.

don't forget financing

the problem with the offshore windmill parks is that maintenance is very difficult, and they often need more of it.

Yes, I was referring to the "new ice age" crisis in 1970. The climate changes constantly, but it's quite a slow process, it takes years and could go in quite some directions. And climate research is improving year by year. They are able to predict stuff much better and a long a much larger time scale. However, they are still often wrong. But maybe they're not, only time will tell. Another fine example was the hole in the ozone layer. Years after the hype they had enough research and evidence that it wasn't that bad, that the hole was always there and has always fluctuated. The human impact, even through cfk's, wasn't that big after all. Ofcourse that doesn't change the fact is was good to get rid of cfk's, simply because they are quite an health risk to humans and what not. And it's not a bad thing if people save on energy (also saves them money), on waste and recycle (in most cases it does make things cheaper), and fossil fuel (because oil is also needed for other things like plastics, and it's not very easy to replace). And a shit load of those other things, why I do dislike is, are hypocrites. Sure "don't shoot the messenger", but the whole "inconvenient truth" stuff wasn't very CO2 neutral. Apparently 'lead by example' didn't apply. There are more things like that, like the recent Pope tour in South America, one of the things the Pope was going to talk about was help for the poor. And yet, his tour costs a shit load of money that could have been spend on the poor. ... erm ... going a bit off track here ... I think there's a point somewhere in the above text. The problem with this hype that people are looking into short term commercial or popularity increasing solutions that are actually not viable. They are not going to invest in fundamental research required to complete the proper solution (like cold fusion), not do they want to invest controversial solutions like nuclear power. Yes nuclear power, it's quite cheap and "climate neutral". The only problem with nuclear power is the radioactive waste. All other waste can be recycled for additional gain (through, for example, the usage of an energy tower). They rather invest in solar and wind power which is pretty much unreliable, and still not efficient enough to actually contribute as a solution. As for the stupid offshore windmill parks. The one in Denmark costs more in maintenance than it delivers in energy. The Dutch government was looking into a similar project. The experts they hired to look into it said it was a bad idea, but the government simply ignored the research and still put into motion that project (or maybe they've canceled it again.). There was a documentary on that whole thing by Zembla or Tegenlicht. Can't find it right now (my internet connection isn't very reliable right now because some idiot decided it was a good thing to cut the glass fiber cable).

There's also: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4499562022478442170 It's an other side of Gore's movie about his presentation about his book. The only problem with the "climate change" that I see is that the human society isn't very flexible. "We" can't simple pick up our stuff and move 100km to continue living. I believe this climate change is more hype than truth. And commercially, a hype is very interesting. And you see a lot of companies "doing the right thing". Giving you "discounts" for certain "green" things. A lot of good money is wasted on proven bad ideas. Like a wind mill part in the ocean. It's seriously expensive and not profitable (in energy production) for a very very long time. (just like solar panels). I think it will all vanish at some point like it never happened. Just like the previous climate crisis back in 1970.

makes you wonder if they already planned "Spore Forever"

talking about stupid ideas: New "Terminator" Trilogy Planned and the best part is that neither Cameron nor Schwarzenegger will have anything to do with it. So besides the probably aweful Sarah Connor Chronicles TC series there will now also be more awefull movies.

Ever played the Desperados 2? I liked Desperados too, but never tried 2, it kind slipped under the radar.

the secret area is much more interesting, but the physics sucks. very strange things happen when you put a lot of blocks on the guy

I sort of agree with brkl on this. The best/worst stuff usually pops up over and over again. It's a bit boring to rehash the same stuff over and over again. Much more interesting threads are the "last game played" or "last movie watched".

the controls suck

What's there for supcom to take? looks more a competitor to C&C3 than supcom

Evil Aliens was much much better

Giant kitty wants the flag

there are way more stupid ideas... like Rambo 4

go places where they are usually not allowed to. Maybe cats simply don't want to learn/to those things. It's like the common saying: dogs have bosses, cats have servants

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/4766843.html http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=5263782 The police also confiscated a hammer as a weapon... yep good shit... you simply can't make this stuff up

So.. you watched MacGyver too?