It' s called spwriting. xD
I' ve always been annoyed by teachers asking someone to read aloud, I read thrice as fast in my head. I didn' t know most people were stuck at the vocal pace in their mind though. One of my literature teacher was shown a machine once. It would flash words on a screen, starting rather slow but getting quicker and quicker. They took a break for lunch then resumed, but the guy setting the machine deliberately kept it as fast as before instead of starting slow again. They couldn' t believe they ever managed to keep up with that. Another teacher asked me to read aloud something like this once : THE PAOMNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabridge Uinervtisy, it deosn' t mttaer in waht oerdr the lteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat lteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Lol, I mean I never forgot.
I' ve known it since around the time I was old enough to masturbate. Somehow the news never slipped my mind. XD
Yup, he' s French. And I don' t know how mature the guy is (pompous=/=mature), but his speech is rather elaborate. As in journalistic.
I think I' m starting to get it. Cinematic platformers are essentially trial and error games, if you can' t stand it no way in hell you' re ever gonna like any of them. The puzzles you can screw yourself out of are intentional. I for one don' t mind it. The bad collision boxes and slippery gameplay also come with the genre (because of its rotoscopic animations). The insane troll logic slingshot thing also often comes with the genre (this isn' t zeldoid, your inventory is often meant to be used in a single scripted event). I guess that last one could be avoided by making you loose your slingshot in between or something. What I' m getting at is that it' s kinda like saying "FF sucks because it' s turn based". It' s fine if you can' t stand it, just know that some people don' t mind it, as mind boggling as it could seem to you. I gotta ask, did you play Oddworld and what did you think of it ? It sold pretty well and got a lot of praise.
Where would you put the twin towers museum, in New Jersey ? Seems to be the most pertinent place of all. What I gathered from the article is that having the victims burried in the freaking museum is the problem, and that I can understand. Did they run out of cemeteries or something ?
I wouldn' t call it a platformer per se, clearly this isn' t Mario. Looks more like a Prince Of Persia like. A genre which, although it never got its own name, pushed cinematic aesthetics, animations, cutscenes and naration long before the Playstation and its shiny CG and 3D even came around (Another World, Flashback) and survived it (Abe' s Odyssey, Heart of Darkness which had ****ing Spielberg' s name slapped on it). Sure, by today standards it' s a retro genre. Doesn' t mean it can' t be fun anymore. It certainly looks way more interesting than The Walking Dead to me. Whether they' re up your alley or not the art style seems decent and the gameplay functional, so when you call it "of the worst games ever" I' m having a hard time following.
It is now an historic event, it belongs to anyone and everyone. Museums built to keep the memory of historic tragedies alive are commonplace and needed. As much as I' d like those places to strive on love and fresh air alone, they don' t. What about those souvenir shops they mentioned in the article ? The ones that have already sold shirts for a decade. Did those spark controversy ? They don' t seem to care much about history lessons. What about the numerous movies, comics, tv shows and documentaries that I' ve seen giving their spin on it ? Pretty sure those made money. Personally I never buy that kind of "souvenir", I find them utterly tasteless.
I wouldn' t mind the museum, the souvenir store (provided they keep it sobre) nor the cafe. Just because someone you know died there doesn' t make the place nor the event yours. However putting the victims remains there regardless of their dying wishes does seem insensitive. I know they aren' t legally binding per se, but still ... I get why the state would say "no, you cannot put him there", but I didn' t know they could say "no, you have to put him there".
Is it May the Fork already ? How time flies ... Happy birthday !
My philosophy teacher tried an experiment once : he' d give us a day of the week and ask us which color it brings to mind. He expected to end up with all sorts of colors, illustrating how arbitrary and meaningless those associations are. Unfortunately for him he picked Monday and ended up with a lot of "black" answers. XD Not that "the week end is over" = bad/sad = black is any less arbitrary, it' s just more culturally enforced than, say, Saturday = Saturn = Orange. As for me there are colors I like more than others and a few cultural associations that I recognize and/or observe, but that' s about it. Someone posted a personality test on KHV once, one asking us to answer by picking colors. I clicked random colors for the first two questions and closed the test when I figured it was going to be like this all the way. I don' t speak colors.
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde If my avys have some sort of impact on my behavior then I failed to notice. But then I' ve never thought of them as masks, it' s more like which picture do I want to put in my room. However the cover of anonimity that I and everyone else get online does alter my behavior. In real life I tend to be the tapestry guy, it usually takes a while for me to get comfortable enough to lift the barriers. Unless I can tell the person I' m speaking to is even more uncomfortable than me. I think of it as shyness, people often read it as arrogance. Heh, maybe they' re one and the same, go figure. When I' m online I still keep some restraint, but I speak my mind more freely. No way for people to cut me off, no risk of real life retaliation, less reasons for me to tiptoe around the bush.
I' ve actually known my great-greatparents on my mum' s side. Mostly my greatgranny, since her husband died when I was a wee kid. He' s been decorated twice for his role as a leader in the resistance and has been the mayor of Figeac, which now has a street named after him. Further back along the line is abbé Carnus. Spelunker, pioneer, scientist, eclesiast, martyr, beatified by pope Pie XI. There' s a couple of streets and a school named after him in the town I live in, and his character has been used in a couple of French movies. My granny knows loads about him, she' s got a bunch of old lithographies of his montgolfier (hot air balloon). I don' t know much about my dad' s side though. Seems my name is of Spanish roots, that' s about it. However one of my uncles researched the archives once and gathered as much of the family tree as he could in one place. That was ... interesting.
It was a 'murica **** yeah movie, but it was played for the funsies for once. Made it bearable, at least for me. - I am Philippe Roaché, DGSE - Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure. - It sounds big. - French Secret Service. - Oh. - No croissant ? - No, monsieur. - Slurp ... Bleurgh ! You call this coffee ? - I call this America.
Because they were dicks taking his unquestioning submission for granted ? No need to remember what the last drop was about to remember that the camel back' s broken. I can think of a few bullies from my childhood. Can' t remember their name, their face is a big blur, can' t even tell why they were bullies. But they were bullies. Besides : "Come on Sora, I thought you were better than that !" "Get real ! Look which one of us is winning ! Huh ?" Looks like Roxas could remember and not remember Riku at the same time. His memories were a mess to begin with. The more time passed the more he grew/regained his personnality, sense of self-agency and, more importantly, his instincts. He might have given it more self-introspection had he noticed something was off, but I doubt he did. He' s not exactly the brightest bulb in the box anyway.
I agree with Nova. I doubt his memories got replaced by anything, he just forgot. Faster than one normally would, but exactly the same way. I don' t remember learning how to walk or speak, but I still do. Our brains are super lousy when it comes to recollecting events. Hell, they suck at writing them accurately to begin with, which is why investigators cross-reference testimonies to separate the truth from the fantasies. And I don' t even think his memory disappeared per se, rather the "chains" leading to it did, one after the other, making it rarer and rarer for one memory to bring up Xion to mind. If memory serves ReCoded implied so.
I asked if they still had all the original files and data at their disposal or if they had to retro-engineer some stuff. Of all the goodies they mentioned in the previous survey the only one I' m interested in is the making of DVD.
My two years old nephew is addicted to Cars. The last time I saw him, when I heard him complain that his daily watching was over, I brought him to my PS3 and launched Ni No Kuni. He was hooked, in spite of the lack of French dub. He spent his whole meal trying to recount our epic victory over the guardian of the forest to his parents.
Temperature can cause vasoconstriction (cold) or visodilatation (hot). The hotter the water the more oxygen and food your muscles get. Temperature is actually constrictive or dilatative period, I' m sure your private parts noticed. It affects your muscles too, so hot = relaxing and cold = energizing. Ideally you' d start with hot water to relax, then finish with cold water for a couple minutes to snap out of it. Or mimic scandinavians and roll in the snow right after the sauna. Oh, and the water does a slight massage, especially showers.
