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Latest Humorous T-shirt Slogan: "No Fat Chicks". This is a shirt that you see frequently, what makes it funny is the context. The guy wearing it was about 5'10" and maybe a shade under 400lbs. Does he really have standards, or was that the only shirt they had in his size?
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Music lost to history: Alice Cooper: Roses on White Lace
Alice Cooper is basically what Marilyn Manson has become. He sang about really taboo subjects at a time
when taboo actually was taboo. This particular tune is one that I began listening to after being dumped by the girl that I was supposed to marry
back in the early nineties. It is actually one of three songs that play back to back on most albums. Those three songs are, if memory serves,
"chop, chop, chop", "Gail" and "Roses on White Lace". I never really appreciated the other two quite as much as this one, but then I have
never hacked anyone to death, so check back later... This song stands alone as being pretty cool just because it states the anger that I was having at the time (back in the '90s). At the same time, it illustrates that Marilyn Manson is following the course of another very successful rocker. While Cooper's songs were not earth-shaking, they were provocative. That single fact is what has led to Manson's success. I have never heard or read Marilyn Manson say that Alice Cooper was an actual influence on his music, but here is an example of it from twenty years ago. Is It Porn? The last entry, Was.com was not porn. Now for a tough one. Breast.com. What do you think, is it porn? No, it is not porn.
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It seems that the little 'Roaler Coaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack" Christmas gift has been a heck of a lot more
entertaining than I could ever have imagined. I seem to have pissed away the last couple of weeks just trying to figure out how to build bigger, better, faster and more
exciting coasters. While I still would not consider myself an actual 'Tycoon', I would say that I have a foot pretty firmly into the door of being a "Roller Coaster Mutual Fund Investor", which obviously doesn't
carry the same punch as 'Tycoon', and which is also a bit confusing.
Much like in any game you play, I began to get bored with just following through the scenarios and trying to achieve whatever goal
was necessary. I had noticed as I was playing along that my initial attempts at free form coasters were all rating as 'extreme' with nausea ratings to match, all the while having a pretty low
excitement level. After a bit of guess and check work, I was able to determine that you get really high ratings in those areas when you put curves after very large drops, especially so if the curves were not banked. I did correct that in the course of the scenarios, but, I kept it in mind
for the purpose of experimentation outside of gameplay.
One of the single best features of the second RCT game is that it gives you a coaster builder section. This section allows you to build a coaster without the obstructions in the actual scenario, and, more importantly, without wasting valuable time in the actual scenario. They let you save the coaster, then
load it directly into your scenario later, provided you have enough cash to do it. This was the most educational part of the game for me, at least as far as learning how to make a ride that will attract people, and thus help me to win the scenarios. However, I am a pretty sadistic little bastard. I began to wonder just exactly
how extreme a coaster could get; how much g-force they would let you build into the coaster and still be able to test and open it. That has really been the most fun part of the game.
I can't seem to find any conclusive proof regarding the subject, but I have heard that without the aid of a special suit pilots will start to black out at around 6G's. Whether or not that is true doesn't really matter though. Just imagine going a carnival ride like the "Gravitron", which only does 3G's, and multiply that by 3. I couldn't move my appendages forward while
riding on the gravitron, and it almost felt like the skin on my face was starting to slip off. If the forces were three times that amount, I likely would have been, at the very least, a bit sick. Man that is a lot of G-force.
The really sad part is that I may never know just how the ride would affect little pixelated sprites, as I have put that coaster into a couple of different scenarios and have yet to have a single passenger. Isn't there some little, pixelated sprite out there that is being egged on enough
by his little, pixelated friends that he has to ride it? If there is I have yet to find him.
I really should try to come up with something more interesting to put here, but the roller coaster game is calling me again. It is really a damn shame
how easily I can get addicted to these mindless little games.
Hopefully I will have actual content here next post. Hopefully.
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