Recent content by pacati

What's the appeal of Steam? It can't be the copy protection, since that has been successfully circumvented for every game that uses Steam...

They didn't do anything you couldn't do with 10^3477 Apple //e's working together. :p

There will be a short subject shown before the main feature and it will have Heath Ledger dancing with a vaccuum cleaner.

Listen to a pristine, unworn, unscratched vinyl, you won't miss a thing. The resolution makes it sound like they're playing right in the room. It's a live performance, as opposed to a sampled version of the sound. But do note, if you're listening to a vinyl that was originally a digital...

Ironic. He compares it to Vinyl-CD evolution. That revolution reduced resolution (vinyl = infinite resolution, CD = 16 bit) whereas his film evolution increases resolution. Well, nobody is championing Jackson for his engineering knowledge.

I miss the construction (the decorating was much less interesting to me than the blueprint), but this game is video crack. Five nights in, it's stil a solid distraction for me.

Zelda 2 was the best zelda I played until OOT. But Majora's Mask kicked all of their asses. OOT suffered from the cartridge limitations. N64's Majora's Mask sidestepped the problem incredibly gracefully.

Perfect example of a bad study. They asked the wrong questions as they conceived the study. The main problem is, if facebook is making you feel inferior, you usually stop using facebook. They only studied people who were actively using facebook. So of COURSE it's great for THEM.

Since it's mathematically impossible for any digital medium to hold the resolution of an analog soundwave, it's not a very good subject matter, either. Just because some people treated their vinyl like crap so it got all scratchy doesn't mean everyone did.

You recall wrong. The KQ Collection was one of the ones I referred to. About 5 years ago I bought the SQ, PQ and KQ Collections that were released on their own CD-ROMs to be compatible with Windows XP. They do NOT have the non-remakes (of kq1, sq1 and pq1). If they had, I wouldn't have...

Well I don't have the hardware to run them in their original format, that was part of the point. I use Windows 7 and they play on that fine. For free. It's called DosBox and AppleWin. But you do have a point for people who didn't actually buy the games back in the 80s. HOWEVER, there is...

Wow, I've been playing Police Quest 1 (non-VGA remake), and all the rest of the original sierra classics on my Windows 7 OS for a couple years now for free. I have all the Zorks, but I never play those. I wonder how I did it? Support new developments, not old ones. I bought those games in...

There so many torrents out there that are used with DosBox or AppleWin emulators... How can you be a nerd from that era and not be aware of these things by now? I was forced to discover them after the Sierra Collection I bought used REMAKES of KQ1, SQ1 and PQ1 instead of the original code. In...

You can do it, you can do the PAC MAN, PAC MAN cereal, you can open wide, And gobble up the ghosts that are hiding inside. Marshmellow, orange, red, pink or blue, Gobble up the ghosts or they might gobble yooooooooouuu! You can do it, you can do the PAC MAN. I also remember the theme...

It was already reported that he's reprising the role of Legolas. Not a cameo appearance, but not a starring role either. I'd imagine that means he'll be there during the days the party is at Rivendell. I bet a lot of out-of-work actors are pulling their hair out listening to Ian. How many...