Comments on: Nintendo fingers

By: DmL

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:18:04 +0000

It’s alot of fun, I just wish we didn’t have to rely on it so much.

By: Havelocke

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:31:11 +0000

I sort of figure the same, but it’s wayyyy lower on my list of priorities, below:
learn to pick locks properly
become a SCUBA instructor
discover the recipe to the fabled drink “Caipiroshka” which I can order on the island of Roatan and seemingly nowhere else
prove a pseudoscience to be legitimate
and so on…

By: Adam

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:49:38 +0000

“I can drive, just not legally”

I’m thinking I should probably learn. Not that I would get a car, but that it’s probably a skill to have under my belt for utility purposes.

By: Havelocke

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:46:49 +0000

I fully agree with this, as a city dweller, I never got certified to drive, and use my passport as ID, the upside is that I hate cars anyways, and I have never had to be the designated driver. The downside? My sweetheart does drive, and hates driving me around whenever we have to go somewhere suburban to rural. Like our wonderful 5 hour trip north recently, during which I mucked about on the laptop and organised my music, and she growled a lot and muttered about how why the hell can’t I take the wheel, anyways, it isn’t as if there are cops this far north anyways.

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By: Alexeon

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:21:55 +0000

Flying car? Thatll never work! Now, personal spaceships that dont cost billions of dollars and take a lot of people to crew and go fast enough so that a trip to a local area like Mars doesnt take months to years and doesnt consume gas that costs by the millions and etc…, theres an idea worth investing in!

-sniff… why must reality be so unfair?-

-Alexeon

(Hoping for a real drop in spaceship prices, a real climb in spaceship quality and technology, and flying cars, which are always cool)

By: Encifer

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:14:31 +0000

I was just thinking the exact same thing a few weeks ago. I’d get my drivers license right away if I could control cars with a game controller. Until then, I’m just too lazy I guess. That, and driving cars doesn’t seem to interest me too much…

I’m also holding out for the flying cars.

By: Alexeon

Fri, 16 May 2008 08:02:18 +0000

Man, that reminds me that I still have to take my driving test… -sigh-

If cars used Dualshocks, Id be a stunt driver by now.

By: Davey

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:56:33 +0000

I already use buttons to control my speed on the highway. (cruise)

By: Seraphine

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:35:33 +0000

Driving simulations make me sick.
I get motion sickness really easy.
I need a wheel to hang onto.
I like making my own vroom
vroom vroom noises anyway.

By: Melanthios

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:19:58 +0000

How often I hear this argument! You’re forgetting one thing, though….the playstation controller is far from ergonomic. In fact, the reason I’m not a gamer is because I haven’t yet found a controller that is designed to not strain one’s wrists. Having tendonitis, I am very supportive of non-vg controllers in things like cars. My wrists take enough punishment as it is with all the typing I do.

By: Adam

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:34:26 +0000

And, if Vonnegut is anything to go by, it should also filter out any incoming dumbness.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:30:18 +0000

I’d probably stack them. If I lined the walls with them it might make for better sound insulation.

By: beemoh

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:20:26 +0000

I think it’s probably reasonable to have a human driver on otherwise public transport, even if the only thing they’re there for is to indiscriminately tear out wires to make the thing stop in the event of a malfunction.

As it is, planes already aparrently practically fly themselves- I seem to remember some quote where in the future, planes will be manned by one man and one dog- the man’s job is to feed the dog, and the dog’s to bite the man if he touches anything.

By: Adam

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:14:50 +0000

It’s bad when you can race without looking, even the mirrored tracks…

just before Double-Dash was released I went to the ECTS show, where nintendo had set up a trailer full of their new games, and just behind it was a mock-up racetrack with karts on it… each cart had a little screen and a joypad… turned out to be a 6-player network of Mario Kart, much fun was had.

By: Adam

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:03:49 +0000

I mis-read that as ‘I’m constantly stealing that book’.

then I speant at least a couple of minutes thinking what exactly do you do with your copies…

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:57:33 +0000

Oh! Turrican! That music was like a virus!

And Breakfast of Champions! I’m constantly stealing from that book!

By: Adam

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:25:58 +0000

I still think that trams are under-utilised for that purpose. We have some great ones near here.

http://blackpooltrams.fotopic.net/

They’re cheap and easy to run, and whilst they aren’t fully automated (they still have a ‘driver’) they’re on a fixed route track.

But I think people have an inherent distrust of vehicles you don’t steer and of robots substituting a human, no matter what they are doing…

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/04/armed-robots-st.html

By: justine

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:20:14 +0000

oh, oh i am quite excited. by mario kart. i mean, we got a wii soon after they were released here and we loved it, and we also own the last two versions of mario kart and let me tell you, it is an competition in our household! its possibly the game we own that we’ve played the most. even without the new techonology, new tracks (perhaps ones that we couldnt do with our eyes shut) are a very exciting prospect.

By: Adam

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:19:29 +0000

Yeah, it’s great, I can never remember telephone numbers, or where I left my glasses, but there are somethings burned onto my brain, the NES controller being one of them.

The music to the videogame ‘Turrican’.

And ‘Breakfast of Champions’ by Kurt Vonnegut.

By: Adam

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:07:59 +0000

No problem. You seem rather excited… by Mario Kart?

Must say I do love that game, though Ms-Em usually gives me a sound thrashing at it.

By: Roo

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:14:54 +0000

You drew that from memory? I’m now impressed.

By: Roo

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:12:33 +0000

Virginia Tech has been, for the last several years, developing a ’smart road’ with embedded thingamagigs to talk to the car (among other things it does)… it has the potential to turn into a driverless system eventually. Really, what this sort of thing will do is turn buses into things more like trolleys, just following a track.

http://www.vtti.vt.edu/virginiasmartroad.html

By: Roo

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:07:57 +0000

No no, we can tell, honest.

By: justine

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:07:19 +0000

ugh, sorry double post