Epinions Recent Reviews for SlickFish

God Awful

Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:59:09 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - Daylight is without a doubt the worst movie Stallone has mad since Stop or My Mother Will Shoot with Estelle Getty. It's got all the taste and class as a meal at one of those Planet bend me over and charge me $30 for a bad cheeseburger and a beer.
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Alpha Centauri

Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:23:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - When I played Civ II, I ended up forgoing just about everything else in my life. I think I spent about eighty percent of a winter break playing Civ II. So I hesitated in getting AC because I knew that I'd end up spending just as much time playing it, and...

CS at Iowa

Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:38:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - If you're thinking about getting a Computer Science degree, now is the time. There's an amazing market for people with CS degrees right now, and they say that it's only getting better.

Computer Science is my second degree from Iowa, my first is...

Best Car I ever Owned

Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:06:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - Here's the background, as you may know, I'm a returning college student working on my last semester of computer science, i.e., I'm way broke. I could never afford a car like the Toyota Avalon, but fortunately for me, my grandmother left me her 95 fully...

A blast at the pub, not at home

Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:05:05 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - Golden Tee golf is a great arcade game. It's a fun game to play with friends at the pub, but when it's on your PC it loses something.

The differences really lie in the hardware, mainly the arcade game's track ball. It can really take a...

Conan Rules!

Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:21:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - I agree with Carpanza that Conan the Barbarian is the best movie of its genre. The competition lacks Conan's excellent plot--thank you Oliver Stone, sparse bits of good acting--thank you James Earl Jones and Max von Sydow, and an incredible...

Carpanza, You W*ss

Tue, 4 Jan 2000 15:30:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - Unlike Carpanza, I can drink a twelver of Leinenkugels Original Lager and not stink up the bathroom. Sure I may have the occasional squirt if I use those tasty Leinies to wash down three dozen extra hot buffalo wings, a bowl of chili, and some Taco Bell;...

Night Train: Rot Gut

Tue, 28 Dec 1999 18:40:25 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - Night Train seems to be a favorite among the local street people in my town. They enjoy it's flavor so much that they collect cans all day to purchase a few bottles of this delightful wine.

Although I've only sampled this libation once and a proper...

Bizarre, yet funny

Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:16:10 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - I always thought that Redneck Rampage looked like a funny game. I finally broke down and got it out of one of those under $10 bins and took it home. For $10 it has provided me with some fun and one fireball of a music CD.

The coolest thing about...

Ultima 9: Amazing but slow

Sun, 28 Nov 1999 20:16:05 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - Touted to be the last and best single player Ultima, Origin really pulled out all the stops with Ultima Ascension. Unfortunately Ultima 9 isn't what I'd call a finished product. There are many aspects of the game that are simply amazing, but there are...

Fun to read, Honest Content

Mon, 22 Nov 1999 12:41:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - I've read PCXL since the first issue. I've got to say that it's got to be the best semi-trade magazine out there. It harkens back to when I could go out drinking every night with my buddies and sneak into a computer lab and play doom until dawn. I...

Superior Content

Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:58:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - The Atlantic Monthly is the magazine that I trust the most to have intelligent and interesting content. I read the Atlantic for the following reasons

(1-2) great feature articles about an interesting subject that is very well written from an...

It's Like Die Hard Only In a Building

Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:32:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - If you don't know, Die Hard is about a New York police officer John McClain (Willis) who is visiting his estranged wife in LA at her company's Christmas party. A group of terrorists take control of the building and McClain is forced to deal with the...

Best Book I've read in a long time

Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:25:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - Dancing Naked in the Mind Field is a rare book that sheds a new perspective on topics that are usually spoon fed to us by the conventional media. Kary Mullis, a Nobel Laureate in chemistry for his discovery of the Polymerase Chain Reaction.

Mullis,...

Grand Theft Auto II: GTA2 CAN IT LIVE UP TO THE FIRST

Mon, 15 Nov 1999 13:52:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - Playing the sequel to a favorite game for the first time is always a nervous experience. I think that we're conditioned to expect a quick piece of crud sellout to ride the thunder of the original and make a fast buck, a la Hollywood. It happens all the...

Best Nintendo Game PERIOD!

Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:08:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - Goldeneye has all the elements for a great first person shooter(FPS). The graphics are crisp. The interface is natural. Enemy AI(artificial intelligence) is the best of any non-pc FPS that I've played. There is a story that follows the movie give or take...

Waiting for Guffman

Mon, 8 Nov 1999 13:18:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - Waiting for Guffman is one of my favorite movies. It mocks two of my favorite things: small Missouri towns and their productions of broadway musicals. The film is shot much like Spinal Tap in that it takes the form of a documentary. This time the...

Thanks for the memories

Mon, 8 Nov 1999 12:37:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - Often cited as the first real first person shooter, and progenitor of the classic doom, which in turn brought quake Duke Nukem, Half-Life, Rainbow Six, Unreal...

The gaming community owes much to Wolfenstein 3d indeed. If you haven't played it, the...

Roller Coaster Tycoon For Windows: More fun than I though I'd have

Fri, 5 Nov 1999 12:28:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - Normally I wouldn't even think about playing a game so appropriate for younger audiences. I felt so emasculated with checking RollerCoaster Tycoon at the store that I picked up Kingpin just to redeem my sense of machismo. The reason that I had to buy...

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 for Windows: Heroes III: Fun while it lasts

Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:48:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - I'll try to be as unbiased here as possible. You see my girlfriend is a Heroes III junky. When she visits me, we live in different cities, I can leave in the morning and she will be playing, when I return guess what she's still there. In fact for a while...

GANGSTERS: IT'S GOOD TO BE BAD

Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:18:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - If you're a prohibition era organized crime fan or if you like turn based/real time strategies I recommend gangsters. It's based in a prohibition era fictional city. You start out as a lowly boss in your own gang of up to ten. Each week, you assign your...

American Beauty--lives up to the hype

Wed, 13 Oct 1999 12:24:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - I know, you've probably heard that American Beauty is a great movie and that you should go to see it right now. If you're like me there's a point where you don't want to see a movie because of all the good things you've heard about it.

There's...

You're better off putting the $50 on black

Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:35:26 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - Throwing your money on a real casino table at least yields a close to 50% chance of getting something for your money. Golden Nugget on the other hand is a guaranteed loser. Sure you can play real casino games, but it doesn't really help you improve your...

What the f***

Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:49:39 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - If you like to hear the word f*** a lot. Kingpin may be your cup of tea. If you've ever yearned to be an aspiring low life. Check this game out.

You play a street hardened scumbag who works his way up from street thug to crime boss. You can live out...

Jeff Gordon XS Racing: Stinks like a fish

Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:54:43 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author SlickFish - Oh boy, it's a very rare occasion that I get suckered into buying a product this poor. I feel it is my duty to warn people from wasting their money on this poor attempt at a racing simulator.

Here's the game, you are driving a futuristic 400 mph...