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wasssup1990
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A Land Down Under
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Posted - Jun 11 2011 :  12:45:37 PM  Show Profile  Visit wasssup1990's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Aaron Cake

Oh, it's about his kid. Good for him, but I dislike children and especially babies.

It's also a sign of the impending apocalypse that Duke Nukem Forever is released.



Awwww, you dislike babies and children? Hehe. Actually I wasn't interested in the baby but the way he described his "project" which turned out to be a baby. WTF!

DNF:
It's actually a pretty good game. The graphics are quite nice and the humour is definitely there. Lots of boobies babes, only this time they are in full 3D and not pixelated as in the 1997 game. The game is one of the first to support 3D glasses for the PC, although I don't have the hardware for that. To be honest, I am enjoying it and look forward to playing some at the end of each day. It's everything you expect for a Duke game of this era. Some people on forums give me the impression that they expected some kind of re-make of Duke3D. There's lots of reminders in the game of Duke3D and of other games and movies around 1997 such as "I'm from Las Vegas and I say kill 'em all!" and "Good, bad... I'm the guy with the gun." - Starship Troopers(Movie) and Blood(Game) respectively.

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

Edited by - wasssup1990 on Jun 11 2011 12:53:26 PM
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Aaron Cake
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Canada
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Posted - Jun 20 2011 :  2:42:04 PM  Show Profile  Visit Aaron Cake's Homepage  Send Aaron Cake an ICQ Message  Send Aaron Cake a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Was it bad that I could tell it was going to be a baby only a few seconds in? No idea how, I just had that feeling. Then it all went downhill from there...

Maybe if I had a computer that would play DNF I would give it a try. I've not really played a game in years, besides The 7th Guest (still can't get that crotch-licking-fecal-eating microscope puzzle solved!).

3D sounds cool. I should do a 3D Cosmo episode.
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Yerboogieman
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USA
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Posted - Jun 20 2011 :  3:17:36 PM  Show Profile  Send Yerboogieman a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U0ZDjnQiXQ

If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
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Yerboogieman
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USA
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Posted - Jun 20 2011 :  4:19:14 PM  Show Profile  Send Yerboogieman a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Aaron, could you send me a can of Tim Hortons Coffee?

If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

Edited by - Yerboogieman on Jun 20 2011 4:40:06 PM
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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jun 21 2011 :  12:36:33 AM  Show Profile  Visit wasssup1990's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Babies, children... there not so bad. I grew up around lots of little people in my house. When I come home, they see me through the front door and they are like "It's JohnnyYYyYYYYyyy! Let's get him!". Before I knew it I was under a pile of kids in the lounge room. Literally. Babies stop crying and they just stare at me when I am near them and it doesn't matter if their own mother is holding them. Then when I leave they start crying again. Well that was my experience years ago. It's just funny when it happens. Am I really that attractive?

I have completed DNF but I have to say that I really didn't know what to expect before I played it. Now that I have played it I can really see what went wrong. It was basically 3D Realms fault for why it took so long to come out. Thanks to Gearbox software for effectively buying the whole franchise up and finishing off the game. No doubt they would have made a tonne of money from this game, so hopefully they will make a Duke 5 - the rather disappointing cliff-hanger ending seems to indicate so. DNF was nothing special. I was just happy to see it come out so that we can see more duke games. After the release of Duke Nukem Manhattan Project in 2002 I think, things kind of went stagnant.

My sister wants to play it now.
She'll be in for a shock. The game goes to the extremes, but it's still fun. The strip club is... my favourite level... I think. There should've been more action in this game, like Duke3D! The graphics aren't fantastic but they are still good to look at. The guns are okay. AI is okay as well and so is the physics.

Nvidia 3D vision:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-main.html

I don't think I will ever buy a 3D screen or its relevant hardware just to have those features, if it uses glasses. There are already 3D screens out there (I don't know if they are available yet) that don't require you to wear glasses. I believe Intel demonstrated that they could do it. Now that would be cool! No friggin glasses!

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

Edited by - wasssup1990 on Jun 21 2011 01:17:43 AM
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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jun 22 2011 :  03:36:21 AM  Show Profile  Visit wasssup1990's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Oooooo la la. Very nice. She's still got it. Fun video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-sxSd1uwoU&feature=feedu

This one's going straight to the front page of my YT channel. Not that I care who vists.

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jun 22 2011 :  11:55:53 PM  Show Profile  Visit wasssup1990's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Proof the Irish discovered Africa:

http://jrcamenzuli.no-ip.org/Humor/proof_the_irish_discovered_africa.wmv

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jun 28 2011 :  06:11:10 AM  Show Profile  Visit wasssup1990's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Take a look at this cool mirage in China:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/mirage-of-a-city-appears-in-huanshan-city-in-east-china/story-fn5fsgyc-1226082498230

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jun 29 2011 :  1:58:06 PM  Show Profile  Visit wasssup1990's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by wasssup1990

Take a look at this cool mirage in China:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/mirage-of-a-city-appears-in-huanshan-city-in-east-china/story-fn5fsgyc-1226082498230



Did you fall for it?

http://forums.zerolizard.com/showthread.php/184-Huangshan-City-Mirage-Not-very-incredible-at-all

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
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Aaron Cake
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Posted - Jul 01 2011 :  10:26:19 AM  Show Profile  Visit Aaron Cake's Homepage  Send Aaron Cake an ICQ Message  Send Aaron Cake a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Pretty typical of media and bloggers these days. Note I separate the two, though each one is as bad as the other. I'm always laughing when I hear that "blogging will revolutionize reporting!" when all that bloggers do is copy reports from the mainstream media, and often inaccurately. Now of course the mainstream media is treating bloggers as an actual information source, as well as things like Wikipedia that really are only good for pop-culture reference.

Sadly, with the departure of Jay Ingram, Discovery's "Daily Planet" is going down that road as well. I've heard them utter sentences like "It uses the same power as two one hundred Watt light bulbs" several times in the past few months. So, uh, why not just say "It uses 200W"? Recently they had a report on an engineering student built electric VW bug (complete with wiring so terrifying I wouldn't drive it around the block). When the students told them that it was 96V and would travel for 30KM before being recharged in 3 hours by a standard household outlet, Daily Planet didn't question it. Uh sorry, no, you're not filling 96V 50AH worth of lead from a standard 120V 15A outlet in 3 hours. That math doesn't add up. The fact that they didn't catch that worries me. What else are they missing? And the mainstream general media is a thousand times worse.
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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jul 01 2011 :  12:57:37 PM  Show Profile  Visit wasssup1990's Homepage  Reply with Quote
The media does a poor job at reporting science. People must always trace back to the source.

For example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adAvYK1O-ic

Nuclear explosions through time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r2VIN4M6QU

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
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Aaron Cake
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Canada
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Posted - Jul 03 2011 :  10:39:06 AM  Show Profile  Visit Aaron Cake's Homepage  Send Aaron Cake an ICQ Message  Send Aaron Cake a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Problem is that there's the scientist that is one of about 4 people in the world who understands the work. S/he talks to the media rep who maybe has a passing interest in science but has a liberal arts degree, so s/he can talk to the media. So about 2% of what that scientist says is represented accurately. Then the reporter, who has maybe a 2% understanding of what the media rep says, passes the report off to an intern that has about a 10% understanding of what the reporter has tried to communicate. Then it goes through editing, at which point it is made "understandable" so the rest of the public will watch...yeah...that's about right.
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