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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 23rd, 2011, 02:43 PM »
The Lego games aren't really construction games, they're more action adventure games with movie licences that aren't absolutely hideous to play...
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 23rd, 2011, 02:20 PM »
Well, the sensor bar is primarily an IR source rather than a consumer of signal from what I remember, so that's not so much an issue - but the real issue for me is that SS *really* needs the motion sensitive stuff to work well, and I don't have the ability to make that happen on my PC at this time.
Mind you, for virtually all the other games I have, it would probably no inconvenience at all to use keyboard, since virtually all the other games I have are the Lego games. (Though, at least one of them makes use of the Wiimote to target enemies, so if that can be replaced by mouse control I'd be rather happy)
As far as instant state saves go, despite having had that ability in other emulators for years, I find myself not really using it.
Mind you, it would allow me to do one thing: I might get to play some of the Mario games on Wii... someone very close to me does not like Mario :/
Also, for the Christmas tree this year, I'll be hanging one of these little beauties. (I'm not a Christmas person but couldn't resist one of those.)
Mind you, for virtually all the other games I have, it would probably no inconvenience at all to use keyboard, since virtually all the other games I have are the Lego games. (Though, at least one of them makes use of the Wiimote to target enemies, so if that can be replaced by mouse control I'd be rather happy)
As far as instant state saves go, despite having had that ability in other emulators for years, I find myself not really using it.
Mind you, it would allow me to do one thing: I might get to play some of the Mario games on Wii... someone very close to me does not like Mario :/
Posted: November 23rd, 2011, 12:24 PM
Also, for the Christmas tree this year, I'll be hanging one of these little beauties. (I'm not a Christmas person but couldn't resist one of those.)
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Off-topic / Re: Thought for the day
« on November 23rd, 2011, 12:20 PM »
Yeah, but you didn't put yourself in a situation where you could compromise their identity, did you?
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Off-topic / Re: Thought for the day
« on November 23rd, 2011, 11:06 AM »
You can still make just as many WTFs with web programming as you can in D3D programming. The difference is, you can screw up more peoples' lives with web programming if you're not careful.
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 23rd, 2011, 11:04 AM »Why don't you play Zelda on your pc?
Hmm, I just looked up Dolphin, seems like it would support the things Skyward Sword needs, but it will require my buying at least two pieces of hardware to make it work (and even then, that will likely have side effects on my system, I really need to upgrade my PSU sometime)
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Off-topic / Re: Thought for the day
« on November 22nd, 2011, 11:09 PM »
*nods* Amazing how people tend to forget that sort of thing, too.
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Off-topic / Re: Thought for the day
« on November 22nd, 2011, 10:55 PM »We who understand nothing about coding, salute you.
I do find it amusing, in a dark and twisted way, how people seem to think that programming is easy. It's as easy as writing a novel. Anyone can do it, but it takes skill to craft something that's effortlessly usable, hard to misunderstand or get away from, and when those who *do* do it, a large number of people seem to think they can imitate it without realising just how much effort really goes in...
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 22nd, 2011, 10:52 PM »I dunno. I'm currently addicted to QI. Badly.
I promised myself I'd implement the things I want to do with post moderation today but instead I found myself called to Skyloft, rescuing something, beating the snot out of some other stuff, generally training to be an awesome knight, that sort of thing...
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 22nd, 2011, 10:16 PM »
BUT WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN? IT'S FOR CHILDREN!
Still, I have my boxed set, TV is currently set to watching some tripe, so I'm going to have to defer watching for a bit. Can't decide whether to just re-run series 5 (with Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead before it) or do a complete run through since the reboot.
Still, I have my boxed set, TV is currently set to watching some tripe, so I'm going to have to defer watching for a bit. Can't decide whether to just re-run series 5 (with Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead before it) or do a complete run through since the reboot.
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 22nd, 2011, 07:24 PM »
In other news, season 6 has arrived on DVD so I'm going to begin rewatching, probably with a run through of season 5 first.
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Off-topic / Thought for the day
« on November 22nd, 2011, 03:10 PM »
I'll just leave you with this article to ponder over: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/22/frank_fisher_creative_class/
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 22nd, 2011, 02:46 PM »
I actually didn't like most of that episode, it just annoyed me for some reason but when you get to the end stage and the whole notion of the Time Lord Victorious, it's clear his days are numbered... you do not mess with a fixed event in time and space and watch it end well, because time will always right itself in the end.
(In case it wasn't entirely clear, it wasn't for me on first watching, she realises that she was not supposed to have been saved, that it is her death that is fixed in time and space and that it is her death that must happen so her grandchildren go out into space. Even though the fiddly details are different, she realises that she has the power to make time continue in much the same direction as it had before.)
(In case it wasn't entirely clear, it wasn't for me on first watching, she realises that she was not supposed to have been saved, that it is her death that is fixed in time and space and that it is her death that must happen so her grandchildren go out into space. Even though the fiddly details are different, she realises that she has the power to make time continue in much the same direction as it had before.)
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Other software / Re: No 501 status on SMF yet?
« on November 22nd, 2011, 12:07 AM »
I bother because I still care somewhere deep down, and because knowing what I now know, it's actually a miracle things didn't implode.