“Idea: Experienced players should offer guided tours of Call of Duty levels, introducing newer players to common tactics, killzones, and advanced strategies. I could totally see players paypal-ing $5 for an hour session in a private game room with 10 other students, while a drill sergeant runs folks...”
Anyone know if this kind of thing already exists? With 90,000 players on Call of Duty at any given time, this seems like a worthwhile market for building a team of instructors. - Kevin Fox
I gotta get back into that game -- it was awesome - Shey
wow that's so nerdy. it could help though. i used to get frustrated as hell always getting shot down on cod 4 all the time when i first began - Cee Bee
But if there was this, there wouldn't be any more n00bs for the experienced players to pwn. - Wizetux
Nice to see that *something* exists in this space, though group instruction would still be awesome, and seriously: a short in-game video of them coaching would instil a *lot* more confidence than the cheezy self-portrait thumbnails. - Kevin Fox
$5? I'd probably pay that for certain games. Especially CoD4. - Cyrus Lendvay
“Now that Ted Stevens looks to have lost his re-election, is it safe for me to ask what was wrong with the 'series of tubes' metaphor? Is it because he didn't say 'pipes'?”
In context it makes sense. But his "GET OFF MY LAWN N00B!!1!" delivery of the phrase makes it easy to take out of context and ridicule. - John Craft
"Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday." - Jim Norris
"Alfred snapped this in 1963, at the climax of Guignol's "Saint George and the Dragon" in the Tuileries Garden in Paris. Just as the dragon is slain, some children cry out in a combination of horror and delight, while others are taken aback in shock. Every child is consumed with emotion, masterfully captured by Eisenstaedt's camera. These amazing photos are now blended into our Image Search results along with other images from across the web." - Kevin Fox
i just read something about this today.. .apparently it makes people vomit... let me know how it goes. - jenna
My copy should be arriving sometime this week. If I can't make it in to work. you'll know why. - Mihai Parparita
For the first time I've found myself in a position to actually care about whether I should get a game for the 360 or the PS3. Apparently the PS3 has some undisclosed 'extra content' but I greatly prefer the 360 controller. Anyone have any insights into platform differences for this game? - Kevin Fox
I played the 360 demo and found the controls to be quite cumbersome - I'm going to wait for the PC version and play with my tried-and-true FPS controls of WASD+Mouse - Nathan Chase
@Kevin--for me the only diff. besides the controllers would be the multiplayer. That and the 360 drive noise is annoying--unless you've got a big HDD and can rip it to your drive with this week's dash update :) - Josh
Kev - in general I prefer the 360 controller also. But this game is much, much better with the PS3 controller. I tried the demos on both systems and the 360 controller just got in the way. That, along with the better graphics engine making sure your eyes don't stress too much from the all the white - is the reason I got it for the PS3. Great game if only for the experience for moving through the world. Cutscenes are awful and the story is just okay. There is a demo on PS3 also if you want to test it. - Nida
My copy arrived last night. While there are definitely very enjoyable moments, I'm still not good enough with my timing that I end up dying quite often. The re-spawn/auto-save points are spaced far enough that I end up having to redo enough of my path for it to feel tedious/like "work." Still liking it better than Assassin's Creed (to which it's been compared). - Mihai Parparita
I couldn't finish Assassin's Creed (for the PC, but playing it with a gamepad). Not because it's hard, but because it's so repetitive; I want to see more of the present-day story but I can't get myself to run through the same city, do the same rooftop antics, kill the same kind of guards, over and over again. - Tudor Bosman
I had just about those seats when I went to see Simon & Garfunkel at the SJ Arena. The acoustics were so bad that I vowed never to go see anything there ever again. How was it this time? - Steve Lacy
Actually, the seats were fine, and as it is bacially a metal band doing christmas and classical music in total metal band style and volume so acoustics weren't a problem. It was all just loud and beautiful. This is the second time I've seen Trans-Siberian Orchestra and the show keeps getting better. - Rachel Lea Fox
The only complaint I have is with Ticketmaster. Their online, best seats available apparently means that the scattered hundred or so on the floor and the several hundred scattered closer in our section and sections like it just don't count as better seats. Apparently this was true for others around us as well. I'm rather annoyed and I believe I will be calling for my tickets from now on. - Rachel Lea Fox
Mark Wood (lead player) sold me a beautiful electric 5 string violin that he made. He is changing the world of music and is a lovely person to boot! - pamela
"The one-day festival includes an animal show and a food and fashion contest which features the guinea pig, native to the Andes" - There are several more photos and short bits about the festival in here. I will warn you that the last two photos are rather graphic. - Rachel Lea Fox
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I must however say, I think dressing up pets is cute and funny. It also is not a huge bother to me that in certain cultures, animals that we consider as pets are often food. It does however bother me when people dress up their animals and then eat them. Everything about this is wrong to me. thoughts? - Rachel Lea Fox
Do they eat them the same day that they're dressed up? Is it like a final party for them? Or do they not get eaten on days when they're dressed up? Like, "Hooray for not getting eaten today!" Either way, I think it's better that they get dressed up rather than never getting dressed up at all. There are millions of chickens in the U.S. who kill for someone to make them a little crown to wear, if only for one day, you know? - Keith Pelczarski
My first thought was "oh, how cute!" then "oh... they eat them" then "well, if they're going to get eaten anyway, what a nice way to spend your last few days." - Jeanette Martinez
I guess, though no pet I've ever had has really enjoyed my dressing it up. Maybe the indignity of being dressed up makes them long for death? ;) And yes Keith, it looks like they dress them up and eat them all in the same day. There is apparently also a fattening stage! I'm sure they enjoy the fattening stage. - Rachel Lea Fox
I'm not even going to click on the photo album, given the comments here. WHY would they dress them up and make them even CUTER if that's what's going to happen? It's like Hansel and Gretel. - Rebecca Sun
It's pretty -- dare I say it -- cheesy. - Stephen Mack
The way to a man's heart is thru his stomach... subtle way to send that signal. <construction worker>Look at that piece of meat!</construction worker> - Ken Gidley
"Breathing is surprisingly underrated. I made this example for students in my Rest of You class to be able see their breathing on their cellphone and to log it over the course of a day. In the course of this I live the dream of wearing a bra on the outside of my clothes during class." - Rachel Lea Fox
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I bet it would be easier with 2 hands. - David Hulbert
this has now inspired me to create a line of videos where i go around doing things with 1 hand, that would otherwise be much easier with 2... and there wouldn't be any useful reason why I would use just 1 hand.... my first video will be "how to type with one hand" - featuring a clip of my hand, typing with just one hand. Then how to wash my hair... it goes on. - Dustin
And suddenly dynamic product-placement in video goes mainstream. I don't think their concept of 'adsense for video' is that far off. Given the ability to make this as annoying or unobtrusive as desired, this'll probably be a better brand vehicle than the current YouTube in-frame banner ads. - Kevin Fox
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