The accent was really amusing. Though Irish accent at Yahtzee speeds is very hard to understand at times. @_@
Zero Punctuation: Tales of Monkey Island
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I hate to say it but... I didn't laugh. Oh! Except when he said he could've used the time to beat his wife. I LOL'd at that part.
How come like the first 10 comments were all buried?! Some of them deserved it, like "First!" but there's on that just says they like the video... Seems a little harsh!
Anyway with regards Romeo and Juliet you may not be aware that trying to give it a happy ending has been done! Prokofiev wrote a ballet of it and he changed the ending because he thought it was too depressing! It did not go down very well with audiences... and rightly so cos it's rubbish!!!
Anyway with regards Romeo and Juliet you may not be aware that trying to give it a happy ending has been done! Prokofiev wrote a ballet of it and he changed the ending because he thought it was too depressing! It did not go down very well with audiences... and rightly so cos it's rubbish!!!
Why do the first posts on a ZP thread always get the author suspended?(or banned or put on probation)
O.O cripes a lot of people got banned/on probation wow.
On topic, Yahtzee is so right about fans wanting to show "respect" to their old favorites and then turning them into crap.... like every new season of the Simpsons (the original writers left years ago and it shows)
Leave the series revivals to the pros.
On topic, Yahtzee is so right about fans wanting to show "respect" to their old favorites and then turning them into crap.... like every new season of the Simpsons (the original writers left years ago and it shows)
Leave the series revivals to the pros.
I'm Irish too but I'm left with the lingering suspicion that although I had a laugh at the review I don't actually know if the game was any good or not.LaBambaMan said:
Perhaps I should listen again.
At the risk of hopelessly side-tracking this thread:
Two things tripped up most software. The first was FAST RAM, i.e. RAM that couldn't be accessed by the custom chips, so programs that blithely called
without bothering to specify what kind of memory they wanted would end up depositing graphics data into the wrong memory bank, and then the program would display whatever happened to be laying at the same offset in CHIP RAM at the time.
The other was the advent of the 68020, which had a full 32-bit address bus, unlike its predecessor, which only used 24 bits. Seems some would-be "clever" people were sticking data into the upper 8 bits of pointers. The 68020 would pass out these extra eight bits on to the bus, which caused the "clever" programs to explode very nicely.
Bill Williams avoided both of these, as well as many other pitfalls -- many of them years before they actually became issues.
Kickstart 1.0 was the very first AmigaOS release for the Amiga 1000, and it was quite buggy. 1.1 came out shortly afterward and fixed a lot of them (though some of the bugs ended up getting baked into the spec when programs started relying on them). 1.2 tidied things up even further, and 1.3 introduced the first real support for hard disks, back when ST-506 interfaces [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST-506] ruled the roost (trust me; y'all have it easy now).wildpeaks said:
Two things tripped up most software. The first was FAST RAM, i.e. RAM that couldn't be accessed by the custom chips, so programs that blithely called
Code:
malloc()The other was the advent of the 68020, which had a full 32-bit address bus, unlike its predecessor, which only used 24 bits. Seems some would-be "clever" people were sticking data into the upper 8 bits of pointers. The 68020 would pass out these extra eight bits on to the bus, which caused the "clever" programs to explode very nicely.
Bill Williams avoided both of these, as well as many other pitfalls -- many of them years before they actually became issues.
True, dat.wildpeaks said:Indeed, a programmer like there should be more.
The Irish accent was spectacular. Also, I'd love to check out the first 2 Monkey Island games but it seems that to do that I would also have to get my hand on an old and obscure games machine. Perhaps I'll look them up in a few years when I can better afford it.
I don't get why people do the whole first thing, I look at the comments section on every video every week (although I don't often post unless I really feel like I have some thing to post that is relevant) and I see people post first or complimenting the movie seconds after the video as been posted, now I have some talents but I even I can't watch a five minute video all the way through and post a review of it ten seconds after it's been posted, I also notice that these people get Banned for it... but the question is if some one could quickly fill me in... why are they doing it??, do these people get a kick out of creating a new account every week just for it to be disabled just to say first??... just seems a little sad to be honest... maybe these people should get lives... tad Ironic coming from a guy who's first thing he does after getting home from training on a Wednesday is watch the latest review while running the bath in
Also like a good few of you I was sort of hoping for the Batman review this week, ho well this review was good, not played the game so I can't offer my analysis but well I don't watch these movie's to make my mind up on a game, I watch them because there good fun.
Also like a good few of you I was sort of hoping for the Batman review this week, ho well this review was good, not played the game so I can't offer my analysis but well I don't watch these movie's to make my mind up on a game, I watch them because there good fun.
I want to say firstly I hate that Hollywood style Irish accent. I have never heard anyone in Ireland speak like that at all. The only thing that was redeemable was unlike most people outside of Ireland you actually know its history so I guess I can respect you for that much, but then you throw in the guinness and the potatoes and the wife beating. 1)Not everyone in Ireland loves guinness (I am Irish and I hate the stuff) 2)So Irish people only had mostly potatoes to eat for a while, why do people keep trying to make jokes about that? 3) The wife beating all I can say is what?
Yahtzee I respect you but this is a low point for you.
Yahtzee I respect you but this is a low point for you.
Well jaysus and begorrah, Yahtzee can do a better Irish accent than me, and I'm from the arse-end of rural Ireland! Ah well, 'tis no problem, to be sure, to be sure.
Ahem, sorry about that. I quite liked the review, and might actually try out the old Monkey Island series. Am I the only one who has slightly mixed feelings regarding the resurgence of 90's-style adventure games on the PC?
Ahem, sorry about that. I quite liked the review, and might actually try out the old Monkey Island series. Am I the only one who has slightly mixed feelings regarding the resurgence of 90's-style adventure games on the PC?
Dude, I think you're taking this a little too seriously. He's taking the mick (har har) out of the stereotypical Irishman depicted in the media, so it's not like he's gravely insulting us.supremeaaron said: