It's awesome. It's a B movie but it's still awesome.

Braundo, it's got what the plants crave! It's got electrolytes!

"People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!"

It's almost physically painful to watch that movie...
The way German tv is going we'll soon reach Idiocracy-levels of awful. There's actually a show now which does nothing but show youtube videos of people hurting themselves.

I prefer manual saving over checkpoints or automatic saving. Although it is nice to have both options.

Even National Geographic now has a program like that ("Science of stupid" or something like that). But they try to disguise it as "science" trying to explain the physical reasons why people got hurt.
Juts a lame attempt to justify posting videos of people doing idiotic things really.

Oh my... That's just... wrong.
You really have to wonder who watches that sort of thing. Apparently enough people find this appealing to still make it profitable to broadcast this kind of tripe. Plus, it must be laughably cheap to produce.

http://natgeotv.com/uk/science-of-stupid

:(

Finally someone who shares my opinion about Halo.
When I mentioned this after finishing it, everyone said I should have played it when it was new to get the greatness...
Imho it can't be so great when it's so important in which year you play it.

I haven't watched TV since about 2008 if you don't count Southpark at their own site and the recordings of Simpsons and Futurama my gf made, but even those series got "meh" over the years...
German TV? No.
I never even had a TV set in my current appartment.

You can imagine my reaction when our television mafia introduced this new tax of about 18€ per month for every appartment and every workplace because people might watch or listen to the states own propaganda crap there while not even the common TV watchers do it (only the private channels). Arte was nice, but it's co founded by the French and if I want to watch documentary, I can go to the public library and get a DVD or BD (which I actually did a few times).

Ever since mr alcoholic, analphabet, aggrees to everything for money G.W. Bush Jr. people know, that idiocracy is already existing anyway and Obama isn't anything more than a showmaster either. The EU is using this concept too now.

The system used to be really terrible before though, too.
When my tv broke 3 years ago I decided not to get another one, for obvious reasons ;) So I sent them a letter asking to be "downgraded" to the radio/internet rate, which was a bit cheaper.

They replied that they won't do it, since I could secretly get my tv fixed! I was thinking about smashing the old thing and sending them a picture as proof, but then decided to let the matter rest since as a student I get to dodge the "tv tax" now.

"As far as treeclimbing goes, the higher you climb, the harder you fall."
Yep, that's science alright. Oh, the sadness...

By this logic, you could secretly go out and kill someone so just in case you do decide to do this, we better throw you in prison first.

If you smashed the TV, you might secretly buy a new one, so I doubt that would work either :)

I'd take a good smart automated save feature over manual saving everyday. Being able to save a game at the right time while playing it doesn't really rate as real intelligence for me.

People often get up in arm about silly shit that matters to them, but is not really that important in the grand scheme of things and in the meantime, they'll fail to pay attention to stuff that will really byte them in the ass.

For example, they'll berate you for tucking your t-shirt in your pants when you're under 40, but they won't be able tell you why the first-past-the-post voting system that we have is terrible.

For me, this is, perhaps, the single greatest source of human stupidity.

Exactly. This is such a meta-gaming consideration. Just play the game.

i watched it once ONCE

it felt like braniac only even more insipid and stupid
and that takes some beating

Honestly, is the task of pressing F5 so hard it requires enough of your attention to take you out of the game? It's like saying turning a page brakes your immersion when reading a book.

Then again today there are people who probably have that problem and thats why they need someone else to read the book for them as audiobook.

Exactly. There are for sure people who like to hear audiobooks while driving long distances to have no disturbings in the story... I repeat: No disturbings when hearing the story while driving the car in traffic. Ahem. That's what I call immersion! ;) Luckily the cars will drive automatically soon.
Could some kind and rich goglodyte gift me such car, so I can send it at work doing my shit there? Work is such an immersion-breaker of my spare time ;P

It's unnecessary, that's the consntatly repeated argument around the discussion. It would be like criticizing Grim Fandango for not having the old 'look at', 'talk to', 'pick' etc. buttons - and even those have more utility and can be used for immersion more than having to constantly think outside the game about saving.

Turning a page in a book is comparable to the necessity of launching a game, going trough main menu and loading save state, not with continuous saving. It's a technical limitation without which you can't read a book / play a game. In fact, there's nothing comparable to constant saving while reading a book, which is just another argument against forced manual saves - getting to the end of a page automatically prompts your brain to turn the page, just as necessity to leave or launch the game prompts you to do so. There's no such thing with quicksaving, you don't hit a limitation or end of page - you just have to keep thinking outside the game that 'Boy, now I need to save'.

*sigh* I'll just let you figure out what's wrong with this statement in a serious discussion.

It goes by several names: Tram, bus, train, subway, take your pick. I read ALL THE BOOKS there!