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...Videophiles wouldn't be happy with the resolution. This DLP projector is 480p, which means it shows typical widescreen movies in 480 horizontal lines. This resolution is the same as DVD movies, but a real video geek would pay the $2,000 or more for a high-definition projector with a resolution of 720 lines or even higher (which can upscale DVD content for a sharper look). Also, the Cinego has a fairly low contrast ratio, which means that you can't really get a deep black without losing brightness. On the picture front, though, I was amazed...
...this makes Wright sound like a geek's geek, well, that's because he is. He loves making fictional territorial maps of the galaxy. He can tell you how many extraterrestrial races have been featured on Star Trek. His latest hobby is collecting outdated Soviet space equipment. But his inner nerd is hardly humorless. Wright's cartoon-like sense of the ridiculous--familiar to all Sims players--is still much in evidence in Spore. The opening stages of the game, in which a player must eat or be eaten by other microbes, is a deliberate homage to Pac-Man. Later...
Imagine, if you will, the average games player. What do you see? A twitchy teenager mashing buttons on his controller, lost and alone in a violent onscreen world? Or a sad-sack Peter Pan type, the geek who never grew up? Sorry, you lose. The average American gamer is starting to look, well, pretty much like the average American. For the first time, according to a poll commissioned by AOL Games and obtained exclusively by TIME, roughly half of Americans ages 12 to 55 are tapping away at some kind of electronic game--whether on a console...
...love the song. Whenever I hear the lurching guitar progression and the aw-shucks lyrics (“Preppy girls never looked at me / Why should they? / I ain’t nobody, got nothing in my pocket,” etc.), I beam with old-school geek pride and want to get drunk off one beer and run across the Yard...
It’s totally, totally like The Cutting Edge meets A Beautiful Mind with more than a hint of Bring It On. There is mother-daughter drama, popular girl-science geek drama, cute boy-dorky girl drama, and of course a “raging” (quotes intended) Can’t Hardly Wait-style house party which was as out-of-place in the film as the lead character was at the bash...