Thanks for this. Despite my hardly being on lately. (As evidenced by my not seeing this until now) It actually felt pretty weird not being here on my birthday, but I haven't had much spare time the last few days. Lots of fun scheduling, like seeing Skillet on Saturday, just not time to just hang out. So how have things been going? ... Help! I keep line breaking to try and say something not-awkward but it isn't working!
Video games win every time. Besides you've surely got some extra lives stacked up right?
What I was going to say in a nutshell. When you reach high ages there are serious concerns to be had because of body degradation. On top of vision issues stated above there are brain issues. It varies wildly in form and severity but it is a good bet that the quickfire decisions of driving will be in some way impaired. Now if you can see, hear, react, etc. properly than no, you shouldn't be disallowed from driving for being too old. Especially considering the car dependent society we live in. I myself avoid driving as much as I can because I have a lazy eye and some executive functioning issues (particularly in regards to processing time). But it is excessively hard to not drive without just becoming a hermit.
Interesting. I often wondered if I carried the property of handsomeness, but to actually be given an equivalency statement is an honor. Thank you. *swirls mountain dew in wine glass*
There will be some venting here, so if I ramble some bare with me (or skip down to the tl;dr that you can likely assume from the title as well). So my parents went to a financial seminar a while ago and were so impressed by it that they've paid for me to attend it now and are attending it again (repeating is free). But the seminar talks mostly about getting out of debt and avoiding debt. This is all well and good, but right now I have a small debt with my parents over dropped classes and have no credit lines to create debt. In fact my few attempts to create a credit line (including a secured credit card) have all been declined due to lack of a credit history. When I mentioned that in a break off discussion during the seminar, they were shocked that I had even applied for credit. According to them being in a situation where debt is an option is folly. Everything should be saved for and purchased in cash. I'm find that to be a great end goal, but it isn't a good starting place in today's society. Case in point in housing. I would be living with my parents a long time to save enough to buy a house in cash, so that isn't really an option. But after that you need to look at mortgage or renting. Mortgage is directly debt so that is out (if I can even secure one) and landlords want to see credit history so they can be confident you can pay each month. So under their current philosophy my only option is to convince potential landlords to let me live there without proof that I can make payments. So we wind up with an interesting conundrum. Credit is so ingrained in our society that living without it is difficult, especially when you are first starting to live independently. Credit history is used to create a lot contracts. And low budget financing is a lot easier when you can charge somewhere that you aren't worried if a transfer has occurred yet or if you might have a subscription payment coming up that will overdraft the account. But at the same time creditors earn money when you use the service incorrectly, so they stack the deck against you. Every adult I talk to is paying off some debt or another, and no one intends to go there. They go there assuming that they know better and they won't mess it up like everyone else. And when they do make larger debts it is because they are going to "pay it off quickly before it is an issue". So is it enough to swear that you won't build up a long term debt? Is the credit card so dangerous that ever owning one should be avoided? tl;dr: At what lengths is it reasonable to avoid credit and debt? Is it reasonable to live life without any credit lines? What are the best practices when using lines of credit? Disclaimer: Above questions are intended to be an icebreaker to the topic. They are not guidelines. As such sharing of thoughts within the topic but outside of the posed questions are accepted and encouraged. My god this disclaimer is sounding too much like legalese. I need to crack a joke or something. Pudding.
Evidently Amaury made Kitty even more manly. Oh god! What have you done! I don't think the world can handle that much manliness.
That is an option but what I was getting at is one of these. Note: That was just the first one I saw, I'm sure you can get cheaper if you look around. Although I can't say for sure that it would work. The consensus I'm getting from quick research seems to be that PSP-200x can't use it for games but PSP-300x can. But the responses have been all over the place on that one.
Custom firmware. I hadn't brought it up since it is somewhat tricky and mildly risky to set up, but one of the homebrew plugins that has been made is for video capture. But since you have a 3000 model PSP you can use a composite out cable for gaming and that costs like 5 bucks.
Sorry, I did get a rather jargony there. The red and the white for audio are the exact same for both formats. But the video is written differently for transmission over 1 cable or 3. Using just one component output on a composite input would be a lot like me giving you every third page of a book written in a foreign language and expecting you to understand the entire book it came from.
They do. 2 audio (red + white) and 3 video (green + blue + red). But the two video formats are different by design. If memory serves, green is the luma (how bright each pixel is) and the blue and green are two combine to give the color. So each cable has less information more accurately. So if you took just one video cable from component and read it as composite it would be read incorrectly because of the different signal structure. And if it was somehow read correctly it wouldn't contain all of the information about the video (If you're lucky it would essentially be a grey scale image. If not it would be a rather abstract color blotch)
I haven't used the PSP's AV out features but depending on how the firmware is coded you may be able to tell the system that your component cable is a composite cable (in which case you hook it up with one of the video cables and ignore the other two). But since that is not necessary for setup due to the built in screen, it might not be an option. Failing that you have two options, both being buying something. You can buy a converter box to convert between the two video types between the PSP and Roxio (plus a set of RCA cables for the box output). Or you can buy composite cables for the PSP so that the PSP can talk directly to Roxio. I would recommend the latter since it is cheaper and leaves less room for something to go wrong. Component has no Yellow. It is Green, Blue, and Red.
Affected would also be correct. I just contest that it effected is not wrong. Skip to two minutes in. Or watch the first two minutes. I'm sure you'll figure out when it is the part I posted it for.
You're missing one of the definitions of effect. Specifically effect as a verb instead of a noun.
Yes, but it isn't wrong.
The spiked drink is likely what effected this situation. Who vs Whom is one that I know if I stop to think about it, but I really don't care most of the time. I use very little of either in formal English and in colloquial English I always use "who."
Yeah, "Ecco: Defender of the Future" It was a sequel but not one I cared for much with my admittedly limited time with it. I think just because it becomes a lot easier to get lost in a 3D space. Although I don't think memory would allow them to put in mazes as bad as the first game had either, so I don't know.
Agreed, I highly doubt the timing is coincidental, and I'm angry at congress too. But this is a long way from resolving anything. In fact congress is now unable to do anything for several hours while this is dealt with. Although considering that the primary dilemma is now delays being made on the CR being brought to vote again, not on the vote itself. It probably isn't affecting that process much. But even if it was effective I obviously wouldn't be supportive either.
Depends on how many they are making and how you are defining failure. The vast majority of people I've seen complaining aren't in the target audience. Just because you or I don't want it doesn't mean that no one wants it. This is not an upgrade, this is to make the 3DS line more accessible. This isn't going to be anywhere near the majority in the 3DS line, and in that case it can be labeled a "failure" by some. But as long as Nintendo plays the numbers right and doesn't over produce these for the limited audience, I certainly think it will turn a profit,
I remember for a while I would just swim around randomly, much like playing the flash game Dolphin Olympics now but without any goal. At some point I was trying to see how fast and high I could go and then insanity started happening. From there me and my older brother were sharing a file so I'm sure I wouldn't have gotten as far on my own but we had managed to get to the alien ship. To my memory I don't think we ever beat it though. I recently uncovered my copy of the game, but alas I had it for PC and haven't gotten it to work (Windows 9x was the last to support it natively)
I'm honestly not entirely sure what they are going to do there. Making it into a console title would be remaking a remake, and one that many people weren't even that fond of. But there isn't a whole lot of story to be told. And what story is there was mostly in bubble scenes, so that would still be a ton of work to animate, voice, and so on. Pretty much any way I look at it there is a lot of work for not that much yield.
