Ginger_Chris

I assumed it would work almost exactly like the paper plane from paper mario (thousand year door). Point too high stall, point to low hit the ground fast, etc. except you can do it after you jump rather than on a specific tile.

I hope not, I've got to start organising a orientation placement in a school as soon as their term starts. Plenty of time until the 8th right?

All spiders are arachnids, but not all arachnids are spiders. See the basic classification tree below showing the arachnid order: See how scorpions and mites/ticks etc are arachnids but aren't spiders? As for the ape anology, humans belong to the primate order, monkeys also belong to the primate order, but humans aren't monkeys.

Or it could follow the ship before it made its way to the scrapyard where mal bought it.

I wish it was my house, I found the pic somewhere on the internet. I'm sure a pet spider like that would be useful in keeping all manner of annoying insects/rodents/small dogs away from your house.

I was wondering when this thread would be revived. I have a purpose on the boards again :P

I did say BEFORE they met. so episodes with zoe and mal in the war (they had a lot of war stories), maybe an episdoe or two of Jayne, couple for Shepard before he was a shepherd and how he became a shepherd etc. They'd have to be linked though, maybe through the actions of a new character. They are telling that persons story, but at the same time showing all the others. Obviously it would be set before the events shown in "out of gas".

Its also known as the windscorpion, due to extremely fast running speed or sunspiders. They have the largest jaws of any animal compared to their body size, and will continue eating until they pop. WRONG, just because something is an arachnid does NOT make it a spider. Arachnida contains mites, ticks, scorpions, spiders, whip scorpions, tailless whip scorpions, pseudoscorpions, windscorpions etc etc. These are not all spiders, as spiders are just a small part of Arachnida class, neither are they order scorpions. They are their own seperate order the Solifugae. EDIT: Anyway here's one of my favourite true spider (it's a huntsman spider) pictures.

Variety Review: The Nintendo Wii has made a name for itself by appealing to casual videogame players, but "Metroid Prime 3: Corruption" is the system's first decent title that isn't really for them. Gamers who have complained that the Wii is just for Grandma to go virtual bowling will finally find the kind of tightly constructed, flashy sci-fi adventure they love. That should generate some good will, but it will hardly draw the hardcore away from Sony and Microsoft. Ultimately, gamers looking for a well paced, thrill-a-minute shooter with a compelling narrative are going to be disappointed. "Halo" this ain't. Along with the Mario Bros. and Zelda, Metroid is one of Nintendo's trio of long-lasting franchises. Bounty hunter Samus Aran, "Metroid's" space traveling heroine, has starred in ten different games in the past 20 years and also had an unsuccessful flirtation with Hollywood after director John Woo optioned the rights. But in all that time and with all those sequels, the "Metroid" experience has stayed largely the same: a staccato shuffle of quick shoot-outs, methodical exploration, frantic battles, puzzles in which Samus turns into a rolling ball, and long stretches of wondering just what the heck you're supposed to do next. "Metroid Prime 3," the third installment since the franchise became a first person shooter for consoles, follows that formula to a tee. It's not a very coherent game, particularly to anyone who didn't closely study the last two. In pop culture parlance, "Metroid Prime" 1 and 2 were origin stories about the villain Dark Samus. Now "Corruption" presents the pay-off confrontation between "good" Samus and her dark counterpart. The villainess flits about, without introduction, messing up stuff. Giant disembodied brains offer instructions and terse hints. There's much ado about shield generators and phazon and chozos. In addition to being borderline nonsensical, "Metroid Prime 3" is also difficult. It has the audacity to say, "Welcome to this strange place. Now go figure it out." Much of the game consists of groping around strange places, puzzling out devices, and traveling back and forth to find new powers, which serve also as "keys" to get to previously unreachable areas. The locations fold in on themselves in ridiculous unlikely ways, like an alien funhouse, honeycombed with secret doors and shortcuts. It's two parts frustration and one part immensely satisfying "A-ha!" moments, having more in common with the "Myst" games than shooters like "Halo." The good news is how wonderfully "Metroid" has survived the jump to the Wii. Developer Retro Studios has created the first quality action game that was clearly built for the console's motion-sensitive interface, rather than just shoehorned onto it. Unsurprisingly, the Wii-mote serves as a weapon pointer, but there are plenty of Wii-specific gimmicks, such as yanking panels open, turning locks, and pressing buttons. With subtle but effective use of the first-person helmet interface (for instance, the character's breath fogs up the lower part of the screen), "Metroid Prime 3" does a splendid job with its "you-are-there" vibe. Gorgeous graphics help, even if they are conspicuously chopped into small rooms to be loaded and played one at a time. Too much of the time, though, "Metroid Prime 3" is more tedious than epic. This is particularly true of the boss battles, which are exhaustive affairs requiring dedication, patience, and most importantly, a familiarity with the vocabulary of videogames: double jumping, circle strafing, shooting weak points for massive damage, etc. Those who previously used the Wii only for party games will need a 13 year-old boy to explain it all. That last sentence is just insulting. Also this guys isn't as 'casual' as he's pretending to be as you can tell from the massive damage quote. Basically its a terribly written and poor review.

I thought it was "sense and sensibility", but I guess a Jane Austen Novel wouldn't be big news on a nintendo forum. Yea, I really don't get what this actually is from the article, apart from some pretty glowey lights, a glorified hair-drier and a vibrator mat (kinky).

Yea, either a prequel based on the war (before they all came together) or detailing the comics would be great. They closed up a lot of the plots in the film so I can't really see what they could do after that. I want to know the shepherds past. sigh. Oh yea, buffy sequel, erm that's a good thing?

I doubt anything will beat the awesome and amazing . EDIT: having reviewed them I think the Nigel Mansell's World Championship and Paper Mario 64 ones might give it a run for its money.

Dammit, I was looking forward to a good yard about his days in 'nam. All I get is the knowledge there's somewhere else I'm not allowed to go. The other place being within 100 yards of Hayden Panettiere.

Hmm, how about a little arcade type game where you run round a maze eating dots, while getting chased by some type of bad guys. However you can get a type of power up that makes all the bad guys vulnerable. I think that would make an awesome casual game concept.

Right, I think people are getting a tad confused with terminology. Climate change is a natural process, the planet changes conditions fairly often, every 10,000 years or so. Global warming is a natural process, and without it there wouldn't be much of a temperature gradient between us and space. basically life wouldn't be able to exist. However when the news and reporters (who by the way know jack about science in any way, shape or form) mention global warming and climate change, they should be using the term "human induced" before them. Humans are having an effect on the planets atmosphere, that is not a natural process, and it is having an effect on our atmosphere. Its fact. And we're doing it far faster than nature could short of a massive volcanic eruption or rapid switching of ocean currents. Both those events lead to significant extinction rates. I hate the media so much with their sensationalised bad science to sell their wares (see Horizon's recent "particle accelerators can create black holes" for a prime example).

Nope, If my minds on something it stays with that something until its finished or has no hope of finishing/being any good. on the other hand, getting my mind to concentrate on something important is another matter entirely. That usually requires pressure. It just means that I have to do things all at once, I start something like work, and I spend the next 8 hours doing the work non-stop. but it will take me close to the deadline to start said work. But it happens with everything, games I'll play solidly for a few days and complete them and then just stop. I can't pick things up for a few hours, play, go do something else for a bit, zone out etc. The only time I do major thinking about random crap is in bed and in shower bath.

Reliability can be solved with good energy stores. take wind power for example. The power output of a wind turbine is proportional to the winds velocity cubed. In high wind conditions there's way more than the energy required, in low wind there's not enough. This can be solved with a simple, highly efficient and high capacity water store. You have two lakes, one higher than the other. In times of plenty you pump water from the bottom lake to the top. (simple potential energy due to gravity = mgh). When there's little energy you let it back down, powering a turbine. Best thing, this method can be turned on, and adjusted in less than 5 minutes. Also if your using lots of different renewable sources less are likely to fail at once. (or never in the case of geothermal)

If you look REALLY carefully, squint and turn your monitor 30 degrees clockwise, I think I can just make out browsers head in the pattern on the cage in that last screen.

i think he means reducing the effect of human induced climate change. In which case, If I were the ruler of the planet... 1. Ban the sale of combustion engine cars. Its efficient but extremely polluting. We don't need it any more and car manufacture could easily comply if given 5-10 years notice. 2. Reduce world population. It's a necessary evil. If places like England, which is good for agriculture and natural resource, are overpopulated there are plenty of coutries out there that have far too many people for the natural resources. China realised this one, one child per couple is possible the most humain method. 3. Switch to hydrogen economy and total renewable energy. Its expensive but perfectly possible. England Alone has enough natural energy resource to power the county 10 times over (mainly tidal and wind are perfect for this country). Norway already has a large proportion of electricity generate by renewable sources. The hydrogen economy would be pivital to banning the combustion engine. 4. Plant more trees, Massively reduce deforestation. 5. Reduce air travel. Planes produce large quantities of pollutants, and because they ar released directly into the upper atmosphere their effect is greatly magnified compared with ground released pollutants More Stringent Industry energy and pollution penalties. Residential homes should be built with a multitude of energy saving features. One such as placing wax in walls acts are a simple but effective air conditioner, reducing heating and cooling bills. All properties in subitle areas should be fitted with solar panelling, etc. Ban on all lightbulbs, LEDs in particular are much more efficient. There are more expensive but much much much more efficient alternatives, There are plenty of others but these are the main ones. The fact is humans have had a huge effect on this planet, and due to CO2 absorption and slow release from the ocean, only 60% has occurred. Even If we stopped producing CO2 now that other 40% would still occure no matter what we did. The problem is preventable, it just takes huge amounts of investments to secure the future. Studies have found that this investment will be cheaper than the cost of not acting, but no government is willing to massively reduce spending on everything else to fund it. They are only concerned with being re-elected. We live in a short term planning society, so it will never happen.

My top 5 numbers: 1. i 2. 3.14159265358979 3. 2.718281828459... 4. 0 5. 1.6180339887....

Poor Biology, though its not really a science anyway...

I live in Scunthorpe. 'nuff said.

I think I'd rather have ridley as a boss character or in his own stage, like Kraid was. If it were me, id hhave the stage as the temple from MP1, where ridley flies overhead dropping bombs/lasers/missiles, destroying the pillars, occasionally coming down to the ground and hurting people more.

Gotta love Godwin's Law. Personally equal rights ftw, as long as its exactly that: equal. none of this, picking and choosing what you want to be equal in, laws should not state any difference between male and female. Positive discrimination ftl.

So which side will bowser be on, we know he's playable (along with meta knight) so at least a few of the bad guys will be. However, if paper Mario has taught me anything, bowser usually forgets all about Mario and even helps him defeat someone who dares to kidnap the princess/take his castle/be generally meaner than him.