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1. In sum this is a cheaply conceived badly written and sloppily edited hybrid between a third rate career book and a fourth rate psychology book from two morons who show no indication of having ever been lawyers Amazon video game review Donkey Kong Country Returns ra Teg Tr Ki J asi 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful teres A worthy remake though hard Until recently those of us who grew up on and loved 2D side scrolling platform games had been suffering a 15 year starvation The rather awesome reincarnation of New super Mario Brothers Wii put an end to that in 2009 while this year we get a restoring of the other most beloved game of the genre Donkey Kong Country yes more beloved and better than any Sonic Like NSMB Donkey Kong Country Returns strikes me as a faithful sequel that s about 90 as good as the original The original was clearly the directive for this game s design While a different company did the development work this time Retro Studios filling in for Rare most of the characters level themes and creatures were borrowed from past games and every song from the first game s awesome soundtrack was lifted almost verbatim As a traditional platformer this is very much a running amp jumping affair with a smorgasbord of bonus items littered throughout the levels collect 100 bananas and get a 1UP collect coins to buy power ups and extra lives from Cranky Kong s Store find the lett2. about the gigantic towns and babbling townspeople it takes an eternity to do a great many things It s not just HP MP and magic that need leveling up absolutely EVERY physical ability can be improved and each of them starts at near zero levels If you plan to go fishing plan on buying a lot of bait and bring a book it can take an hour to catch your first fish A step up on the irritation ladder is the attention to detail needed for simple tasks like growing a plant The Final Fantasy world has a real time clock ticking and like a real plant you must come back once every few hours to pour water in that freakin pot of dirt Suggestion to Square make the battle sequences active automate the plant growing Just about everything imaginable can be improved except running speed and since your character runs at what seems to be three miles per hour a virtual cross training program wouldn t hurt Lastly depending on your idea of what constitutes cute the Tarutaru characters are sure to drive any non preadolescent girl insane After about an hour of talking to these frolicky kid like characters with names like Ranpi Monpi who speak in the style of whattaru are those creepy weepy goblin woblins doing woing you want to drop kick the little S O B into the next village By far the worst aspect of the game and there is no disagreement on this is the death penalty Dying at level 5 or above results in a 10 deduction of whatever experien
3. Amazon electronics review Samsung 425G Prepaid Phone 22 of 22 people found the following review helpful verry The best TracFone for most people recently switched to Tracfone after learning that their Triple Minutes For Life phones make them a better deal than their corporate cousin Net10 For us light talkers Net10 s best plan costs 15 month for 150 minutes whereas Tracfone s Triple Minutes thing lets you get away with paying 10 month for 120 minutes which is only 8 3 cents per minute and text messages are 1 8rd of that Heck if you want to take minimalism to the breaking point you can take it down to 6 67 month for 60 minutes Anyway over at Net10 owned this phone s grandfather Samsung T401G and was content with it so far its descendant is looking just as good It has a full load of stuff 2MP camera MP3 player video and voice recorders Bluetooth 32GB SD card slot 4 programmable shortcut keys voice command and its highlight a tactile QWERTY keyboard that slides out sideways The display is nice the menu layout logical and user friendly and the 416 MHz processor keep things happening quickly enough The camera takes decent pictures in well lit situations too Annoyances the shared headphone charger jack is proprietary rather than MicroUSB though funny enough Samsung s old proprietary charger doesn t fit yet a new LG charger does The keyboard s fussy in some ways i e the spacebar being half as big as it sho
4. Pioneer their specs and features are competitive at every price point they look good and they have the best ergonomics That last point is pretty key to me especially since receivers can seem like pretty homogeneous and impenetrably complicated products to electronics rookies there s at least one in most households Case in point like the button layout menu logic and intuitive remote like how there are direct buttons for every input source on both the front panel AND the remote meaning you can just press a button marked DVD or Tuner instead of cycling through them with a little Knob like how the volume control was apparently designed by humans crank it up and it reads 10 11 12 instead of cryptically counting 35 dB 34 5 dB 34 dB even like Onkyo s green font and anyone can appreciate a user s manual that s easy to understand as well as nice and skinny thanks to Onkyo s decision to put the Spanish French versions in a separate booklet None of this is news to me having already owned the three years ago version of this model the 2007 TX SR505 But had to upgrade because it wasn t until last year s model T X SR507 that Onkyo threw in two crucial updates the ability to decode the new Blu ray sound standards Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio which are superior to Dolby Digital 5 1 and DTS 5 1 the Laserdisc DVD standards that have been universal since the 90s and REAL HDMI ports instead of that HDMI Pass Th
5. a homophobe if for no other reason than his religious nutjob nature he also hates porn But honestly unless just missed it from reading too fast didn t really sense bigotry in this revised 1999 edition aside from maybe his over associating gayness with anonymous bathroom sex and what he wrongheadedly classifies as sexual perversion S amp M BDSM and the like As far as gay people being promiscuous wouldn t necessarily call that assumption offensive just dumb and uneducated Here s a more accurate generalization MEN are on average more promiscuous than WOMEN and thus it follows that gay men would engage in more promiscuity than straight men because their partners are more accepting of the idea not because of gayness Said another way men like to screw around so in a community consisting of men with the the same preference you can expect to see a lot of screwing around I d only call the gay promiscuous thing bigoted in that it entirely ignores lesbians who have the opposite preference since they re women Attitudes about sex and relationships differ by gender far more than by sexual orientation Anyway find something better to read Amazon book review Should You Really Be A Lawyer The Guide To Smart Career Choices Before During amp After Law School eT ion hana ag Vier in 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful won Of no help in answering its question a Exhaustion made me quit this bo
6. arts fighters magicians and healers so your talents complement each other s With your newfound alliance you learn to take on bigger and badder things and the sense of adventure increases proportionally Together you learn to coordinate your attacks to form Chain Spells an attack greater than the sum of its parts that give you a fighting chance against the local bosses and when you win oh what a rush 100 experience points 100 gil More points on my scoreboard Bring on the next There s a whole world to explore and now you have friends to do it with Attacking and leveling may be the main course but there are other attractions There s also completing quests which never seem to stop learning magic spells acquiring items learning crafting skills to make your own items and making money now that s realism After enough leveling up new abilities emerge riding chocobos Final Fantasy speak for ten foot tall chickens crossing into other nations reviving the dead etc After some point whether you notice it or not FFXI starts fulfilling two essential human needs a sense of accomplishment and a sense of human relationships Okay so the replacements are surrogates but it s all the same as far as your emotions can tell and feels just as involving Two days of this game were frustrating Two weeks and you re hooked Of course as with real life this virtual one has some built in frustrations One expands on my earlier gripes
7. based on fear of regret sounds obvious when you hear it explained but the extent to which this tendency affects your decisions is greater than most people think Deborah was also overwhelmed by the thought of how to decide what to do if she left law school This reflects a common CHOICE CHALLENGE called DECISION PARALYSIS a reference to the difficulty people encounter when having to select from many options For Deborah ruling out law ruled in everything else and the thought of choosing among all those professional paths was too daunting Isn t it Scary how so many words can contain so little information Second example page 65 If you don t like using the skills that most lawyers use you probably won t enjoy being a lawyer If you dislike thinking about legal subjects and reading legal documents it doesn t bode well for your happiness in law It s better to find out before starting school whether you would enjoy working in a legal environment and whether legal work is in line with your priorities If you don t consider these questions now you may wind up confronting them later when the stakes are higher after you ve invested three years and a ton of money on a JD There s also a section headlined What Psychological Experience Can Expect From Law School whose given answers are the following and quote 1 Read about it 2 Talk to law students and law school counselors about common stressors 3 Try it out seriously
8. ce points are needed to attain the next level Example if you re at level 10 and need 3 000 XP to reach level 11 dying knocks you down 300 This is as frustrating as it is time consuming especially when the death seems undeserved such as when a misleading difficulty reading is to blame or when the Internet connection Stalls and locks out controller input Depending on how far along you are in the game one death can sabotage several hours of hard work and three deaths in a day can equal a day wasted Knowing how common deaths are in the earlier stages of the game when people are still learning how to play the severity of the penalty might discourage a lot of reasonably patient players Then again to pick up this game at all is admittance of having far too much time on your hands to begin with so perhaps it s of little consequence Remember the good old days of 1997 Final Fantasy VII when people complained about a 50 hour RPG Well how does 500 sound played about 200 hours worth and achieved level 20 Keeping in mind that level 65 is possible and that each level takes significantly longer to reach than the preceding one even 5 000 sounds optimistic To repeat this game is to be avoided by anyone with a life because FFXI just might take its place However if you have none to begin with it sure makes one heck of a substitute So if you fit the latter profile make room on your shelf next to that copy of EverCrack because there s a n
9. d 2 extra ceiling mounted speakers Audyssey Dynamic EQ amp Audyssey Dynamic Volume levels out the volume extremes WRAT Wide Range Amplifier Technology whatever that means All Discrete Circuitry say what 192 KHz 24 Bit Video Digital Audio Converters Zone 2 for powering speakers in another room SIRIUS radio ready an auto setup microphone On the other hand the next up model the TX SR608 costs a whopping 140 Amazon dollars more to add PC input 6 HDMI inputs vs 4 second subwoofer input 100 watts vs 80 THX certification I think that just means it s powerful enough to drive THX certified speakers sounds like a THX branding circle jerk Faroudja DCDi video upconversion analog to HDMI conversion magazines say this doesn t work well 3 Stage Inverted Darlington Circuitry 2 Nice but not necessary Likewise going even farther up the price scale seems to buy superfluous amenities like excess wattage hookups for 10 speakers whatever marketers tell you 5 1 has been the only standard since the 90s and most movies today are still encoded that way and a few other pieces of non essential technology So basically in the wide world of audio video receivers Onkyo s the best brand and this is the best Onkyo What more do you need to know Amazon book review Economics for the Rest of Us 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful wi True to its title For those who haven t been th
10. ers K O N G to unlock hidden levels and find the puzzle pieces in every level for the heck of It Rambi the Rhino makes a return on a few levels letting you ride him and ram your way through the course for a fun change of pace sadly the frog and dolphin are no shows Here are the main differences compared to DKC Diddy don t do diddly Except for the new 2 player cooperative mode you now only control Donkey Kong Diddy Kong has basically been demoted to a piece of luggage on your back that provides two extra life hearts plus a jetpack that lets you hover for about two seconds and land with a greater degree of control kind of like the cape in Super Mario World To utilize the better graphics the creators gave a nod to modern times by incorporating some semi 3D elements the background drawings are in 3D occasionally causing some confusion as to what objects are tangible and on some levels you transport over via barrel cannon to the far distance of the level Because this is the Wii some of the controls are retarded forcing arm waggling to pull off normal moves like rolling blowing and ground pounding On top of being an annoying waste of energy it occasionally screws with your precision and causes needless deaths This game would have been an ideal candidate for Classic Controller support which also would ve solved the issue of the Wiimote being uncomfortable to hold sideways but Nintendo offers no such option This game is wa
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12. llion to show up at his house instead He also argues against popular notions like higher taxes discouraging CEOs to work or rent control hurting the real estate market and expends lots of effort discrediting Pareto in general The second half is about wages and employment exploring things like the Value of Marginal Product how CEOs get away with earning 11 000 000 on average answer because the loss to each shareholder is too small for any of them to care and because of the inherent difficulty in technically proving that the CEO didn t actually contribute that much value even though everyone knows it how minimum wages don t hurt the economy and how lowering taxes doesn t help it All the while he reminds us that the economy does NOT have a self correcting mechanism in times of failure and that there s really no such thing as the economy anyway which can be empirically robust even when most of the people in it are just scraping by If you re sensing that this Moshe Adler guy s a Democrat you d be right he even slips in a jab at creationism on the last page heh heh but thought his arguments were pretty convincing even if occasionally got lost in his hypothetical examples Pick this up if you re interested in an econ book that won t put you to sleep Amazon book review Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask Mes Fe b a 2 ere 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful tere Not w
13. n match Feeling Slightly irked by your early death which teleports you all the way back to town you venture out a second time Minding your own business you hear a loud THUD you re being attacked Your gauge says even match but you re not falling for that again You try to escape running at full soeed in the opposite direction but the monster s attacks in spite of being animated punches seem to have an army tank s range After a futile struggle you die again positively pissed But maybe after an hour or two of trial and error mostly error eventually it comes LEVEL UP Instant HP boost instant MP boost with trademark Final Fantasy jingle music symbolizing your achievement Another hour later another LEVEL UP with more raises and perhaps a new spell What a feeling Over the next few days you gradually gain a feel for timing levels of damage done to from certain enemies which areas on the vast map are safe and how to ration your magic spells so you re not left empty handed It s also at this point that the controller layout finally begins to sink into your subconscious so deaths no longer result from panicky button pushing After a time the LEVEL UPs get rarer level 5 takes perhaps two hours level 6 maybe three But you feel compelled to reach them And what begins a fun solo session turns into a party when you come across other players and team up It s best to have a team of specialized characters maybe equal p
14. ok halfway but that s more than enough reading to discover that its authors have embarrassingly little to say about the legal profession beyond the obvious The first three chapters can be summed up in a sentence don t go to law school for the wrong reasons because it s expensive That s a fine notion but rather than explore the issue in any meaningful way they just dish out banal pop culture references TV amp movie quotes generic anecdotes that go nowhere and a whole lot of repetition Making matters worse they smack down a big glossary of psychobabble terminology early on i e confirmation bias decision paralysis information cascade then refer to the terms constantly in a misguided attempt to sound intelligent and scientific Check out this passage from page 9 Deborah was obsessed with getting a graduate degree by 30 an arbitrarily chosen age that took on far too much significance in her decision making This common trap is called ANCHORING attaching great importance to a fact or figure that may have little or no bearing on our judgments or decisions When she decided to stay in law school Deborah was influenced by her fear that she might later regret her decision to leave Again this is another powerful force called REGRET AVERSION which means that people tend to shy away from taking an action because they fear they ll regret making their decision later Like a lot of CHOICE CHALLENGES the practice of making decisions
15. orthy of its subject matter Wow lots of hate coming from the generation that grew up with this book and the LGBT community Well for what it s worth I m pretty young and pretty straight and while don t see what all the hubbub s about didn t find much more to admire than the rest of y all For one thing at this point a better title might be Everything you already knew about sex As far as the stuff in the book that s actually true would guess that anyone born after 1970 already knows 70 of it before finishing high school the bulk of it from 7th grade science with general Knowledge and common teenage talk filling in the rest The book makes a pretty mediocre first impression too spending its first seven pages talking about dick size har har It s done in the most banal way possible too wasting space to philosophize about questions like how to make it look bigger trim your pubes blinding insight there guy or that porn stars aren t really as well endowed as they claim Finally this Reuben guy s not much of a writer He s short on style and wit doesn t offer much depth in his discussions on anything and saw no trace of successful humor despite an announcement in the Introduction self declaring how funny he is His only real accomplishment aside from polluting the narrative with ten tons of irrelevant Bible quotes was managing to make sex boring As for the alleged anti gay sentiments well this guy probably is
16. rough crap that Onkyo had been scamming us with for years in case you missed it HDMI Pass Through required a supplemental coaxial optical audio connection which was not only annoying but limiting since those audio cables lack the bandwidth to handle the aforementioned new sound formats Anyway now that these features have trickled down to this 400 model heh subtract about 160 by Amazon standards the true Blu ray experience can at last be enjoyed by the masses Thanks to this new toy just experienced high definition sound for the first time and let me tell you it sounds GRATE clearer dialogue punchier bass and just more all around aural substance There ain t nothin like uncompressed lossless 5 1 channel sound it s at least as obvious as the difference between CDs and MP3s same principle at work too As far aS comparing the TX SR508 to the other receivers within Onkyo s overcrowded 8 man lineup think this second from the bottom model hits the price features sweet spot for most non hardcore geek folk It only costs about 40 in Amazon dollars above the bottom end TX SR308 yet adds all this good stuff 80 watts per channel vs 65 4 HDMI inputs vs 3 2 coaxial audio inputs vs 1 front panel composite inputs the old school kind higher quality speaker connections Screw down binding posts vs cheap wire clips 7 1 channels vs 5 1 bi amp capability for front soeakers Dolby Pro Logic IIz if you want to ad
17. rough a certain college curriculum the subject of economics is about the allocation of scarce resources and is basically a social science like psychology sociology and a bunch of other majors ending in ology with ten tons of math unnaturally shoved where it doesn t belong This book thankfully keeps the formulas and graphs to a minimum instead focusing on explaining and philosophizing about a few key economic concepts thought it did so in a way that s pretty thoughtful and engaging with the welcome oversight of a social conscience The first more interesting half of this sub 200 page book explores the concept of economic efficiency defining debating stuff like Utilitarianism which basically argues that feeding the poor with the rich s money is a net good for society since a dollar means more to the poor Pareto efficiency argues against that supply and demand taxes and income redistribution It gets especially thought provoking near the end i e Chapter 7 gets into how massive inequality can ruin society through consumption alone How Because it becomes more rational profitable for sellers to cater to only a tiny handful of super rich instead of masses of average people which leads to consequences like a dearth of real estate in NYC because the rich demand space hogging mega apartments airplanes with no legroom lower availability of doctors and medicines and even crappier rock concerts cuz some CEO just hands Elton John a mi
18. s This Final Fantasy becomes reality one step at atime First to make the transition was Japan who has been thumbing away since mid 2002 Next on the list were American PC gamers who got their first taste during the final days of October Last in line are the poor PlayStation 2 plebeians who will be tapping their feet in anticipation until March 2004 But then anyone used to 300 MHz has surely accumulated some patience To prepare yourself promptly disregard all pre existing Knowledge you had about Final Fantasy most of what you know doesn t apply here This is only a Final Fantasy in name and perhaps in theme the gameplay differs as much as it did between Super Mario 1 and 2 Next quit your job so you can say you did so at will As you know firings scar the resume If you have a significant other make a clean break such is less painful than a relationship deteriorated through neglect Program Round Table Pizza onto your speed dial and given FFXI s lack of a pause button try acquiring a chair similar to Homer Simpson s recliner toilet invention I m giving you this advice because in MMORPG tradition you ll never want to leave your seat so you might as well be comfortable So it s that good In a word yes As an average Joe whose most recent video game mastery was of Street Fighter Il I m not the type easily sucked into the gaming universe Heck only picked the game up because of my job as a software tester and Final Fanta
19. s consist of irrelevant babbling telling you little of value Know Square was aiming for realism with FFXI but was vapid conversation really one of real life s must haves The slow scrolling text doesn t help much either but chatting with townspeople is the only way to get assigned quests and missions and the exclusive items that come as rewards needed to advance in the game Things don t get interesting until you finally venture outside the town The first thing you ll probably see is a cute wittle rabbit KILL Navigating through your enigmatic control menus you eventually learn to position your cursor over the critter and select attack There isn t much reason to get involved since the fight is automated Punch Whack Punch Whack Punch Miss Whack Punch Ho hum win Yay free gil money Next to this fresh hare carcass you find a tunnel worm TIME TO DIE Seems like easy prey says your reading After sitting through another automated animated fist fight your next victory comes Noticing your low energy reading you recharge by sitting down for about two minutes while staring impatiently at the screen Then you decide to wander farther from town and find another creature perhaps a Goblin Thug Seems like an even match says your reading Feeling lucky you attack The fight lasts about 30 seconds and then boom instant humility You barely scratched the guy as he remains standing with nearly half life You call that an eve
20. sy XI sure isn t the most inviting game from the get go Starting out the game offered more freedom than knew what to do with Choosing a character first entails picking among one of five races elf like Elvaans cat like Mithras little kid Tarutarus bulky Galkans and humanoid Humans Then you choose your gender not an option for male only Galkans and female only Mithras and finally your job Warrior Monk Thief Black Mage White Mage Red Mage Regarding the races let appearances be your guide Galkans can take quite a pounding Tarutarus get flattened like squirrels on the freeway with humans exactly average and the rest at various points between the extremes As far as jobs go Mages are magic users Black mages use harmful magic Whites heal and defend while Reds do a bit of both Picking a proper combination is a strategic decision aggressive types might try a Galkan Warrior to pound every forest creature into submission practical types would lean towards a well balanced Red Mage Human After deciding on an identity jobs can be changed later races cannot you must choose between three vast nations San d Oria Windurst or Bastok The impression continues You start off in town but this town seems like a Bigger Apple than New York in both size and density Visit every room and talk to all townspeople and watch three hours vanish from your life Your character runs at a pedestrian s pace and many of the NPC conversation
21. uld be the apostrophe not having a dedicated key and the need to aim for the exact center of the keys themselves The speaker for the ringer is on the back which makes no sense Finally Samsung should ve let us disable the button for the browser especially considering what a piece of crap it is since its permanent placement on the right side softkey makes you prone to butt browsing and wasting minutes Butt dialing is also an issue if you don t lock the phone But all things considered this S425G still seems like the phone that makes the best sense for the most people Tracfone s lower end models are too bare bones and the direct competition consists of the LG 800G an annoying touchscreen phone LG 840G its replacement LG 505C appealing but 90 a Motorola EX124G that uses a stylus WTF and a couple of boxy Blackberry like phones the Samsung S390G and LG 530G Aside from the Samsungs that this phone replaced the T404G amp R455C don t think anything else has Triple Minutes So yeah if you want a good mid price phone that s basically good at everything but Internet this should do the job just fine Amazon electronics review Onkyo TX SR508 Home Theater Receiver 17 of 17 people found the following review helpful trite Everything you need nothing you don t Onkyo receivers kick ass for a few fundamental reasons their sound quality is at the top of the game beating boring sounding Sonys and Yamahas and only equaled by
22. y mother in harder than DKC I m probably one of the better gamers out there but by the end of World 8 there s an unlockable bonus World 9 I d died at least 100 times Some of the deaths seem kind of cheap and unfair too requiring some godlike combination of cat quick reflexes and super high precision to get right the first time basically think of the hardest Mine Cart level from DKC and picture 40 more of those Success seems to depend on trial error and memorization as much as actual gaming skill do think the level design reflects a lot of smarts and creativity but the original DKC managed to provide a more reasonable level of challenge while also feeling more inspired Like said 90 as good But remember that the original might still be the best platformer EVAR so that s a pretty good showing I m still glad bought it and I m sure you ll have fun Video game review Final Fantasy XI 2003 Mergers have been all over the news Sometimes they work such as for the Chrysler Crossfire owner upon discovery that his new 35K ride is actually a 50K Mercedes SLK in disguise Sometimes they don t AOL Time Warner enough said The latest conjunction to rock our common consumer lives come courtesy of Square Enix father of Final Fantasy and this time we re getting three mergers for the price of one SquEnix s latest entry in the series joins Final Fantasy with the online world PC platforms with PS2s and Japan s gamers with our
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