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This is probably kind of relevant here, too.

Yikes, Dilbert 1992-style. Reminds me of this recent Penny Arcade.

Not the right game, but this pro tip is still appropriate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Trevor Moore the ballad of Billy John.

And of course:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/co...
Greater internet ****wad theory.

The story's title isn't quite accurate, so I've gone ahead and corrected it.

"IMDb Is Shutting Down Its Long-Suffering, Vitriolic Message Boards After 16 Years "

The contents of comments sections and message boards are getting worse year-over-year, and IMDB's are no different. Through no direct fault of their own, mind you, it's just that as the number of users on the Internet continues to expand, those users are living up to the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

What's up with all the trans hate on Slashdot lately?

This link explains the phenomenon.

I'd day it is fair to blame the latest election cycle and the candidates for fomenting hate, distrust, disgust and divisiveness in current American culture. Nothing else has changed with regard to the what is happening that Penny-Arcade strip--it has always been like that--it is more apparent lately because everyone got their noses bent out of shape by how the whole election went down.

What's up with all the trans hate on Slashdot lately?

This link explains the phenomenon.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

Never ceases to be true, at least to me.

Yet, look at VR now and the software available for it, after half a decade. It still hasn't moved on from simple tech demos.

The latest Resident Evil is available in VR. Reviews are, um, good, I guess.

On top of that the screen has 50% more resolution packed in... 6 MP vs 4 MP, so again you are really comparing an Apple to an Orange.

Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory (ftfy). Remember: it's the GIFT that keeps on giving.

PennyArcade addressed that very topic recently

Unfortunately, even a lot of people who weren't threatening to punch others were still put off by them. Penny Arcade summarized the issue pretty well.

Win 10: https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

It's just Win 7 + "fuck you"

Eh, this is basically the average slashdot poster: https://www.penny-arcade.com/S...

https://www.penny-arcade.com/n...

Lots of people are repeating the refrain "RAID is not a backup." To that, I want to add an illustration of what that means. If there's only one place your data is located, you don't have backups.

If your data only exists on a "backup" drive, then it isn't backed up. You need to have two, and a single RAID volume doesn't provide that. No matter how many disks are in it, a RAID volume is just one "place." The same goes for Storage Spaces. If your disks are mirrored, then corruption or accidental deletions will remove the data from both.

Of the three proposals, only the last one would actually give you a backup.

Personally, I want as much distance from my data and its backup as is reasonably possible, so my recommendation would be for cloud backups or, if you don't like that idea or the price, then a small NAS for backups. A WD My Cloud 4TB (which will be 2TB in RAID1 mode, which I recommend) runs $180.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

Maybe this will get us back to the idea that movies should portray a story instead of a bunch of action shots blowing things up and a line or two of dialog here and there.

Well, that should put Michael Bay out work then, and good thing too

It is possible to do reality shows amazingly well. The prime example being Penny Arcade's Strip Search (produced by LoadingReadyRun).

Though, I don't know of any other reality show worth watching. So only sample size 1. But still, proves it is possible.

There's no particular reason to listen to programmers on the topic. It's most likely a mix of the typical Seattle thinking, a smattering of facts from online, and a bit of logic. Same as what you find on this website. I don't expect to find a careful, studied examination of the issue.

That is because when they write "M$" they come off as this guy and nobody is gonna take this guy seriously.

The neat part is, you can determine that they are lying without reading their post. Just skim it for the lying word, and you have the truth, from God's lips to your ears.

That is because when they write "M$" they come off as this guy and nobody is gonna take this guy seriously.

The problem is people .

Samaritan operative located.

Obligatory Penny Arcade comic: John Gabriel's Internet ******* Theory

Here's the obligatory 13 year-old Penny-Arcade comic about this topic:
https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

You can't uninstall evil

If only I had mod points, I'd mod this down.

Ob: https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

Obligatory Penny Arcade comic.

Apropos Penny Arcade comic

The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

Sadly, one side effect of internet anonymity is that people feel they can be complete assholes without consequence.

obligatory xkcd: https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

Err... Why? Who gives a shit who else uses your OS? It's not a lifestyle choice, it's a fucking operating system.

True, but it's been marketed (and bought) as if it *were* a lifestyle product, so it's not entirely surprising.

Also, was "his personal preference is Mac" in the summary actually meant to be a Penny Arcade reference or was it just me that thought of that...?!

Yes, but *this* guy probably owns a Mac. These elitist types always do.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

You mean AT&T will switch back to M$ when M$ pays them to. M$ will do a multi year commitment where the first half is 3/4 of what the services are valued at, and the 2nd half is 6/4s of what they are valued at, then slip in fine print charges that double the prices of both.

After all, that is what AT&T does via DirecTV

Obligatory: https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

Obligatory.

Oh, and the jet will make you jittery.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

Maybe he really liked the missile launcher.

I think it just turns out that most guys are just assholes. Look at the Slashdot community as an example. You're about to get a *ton* of knee-jerk insults from the gaggle of dicks who frequent this site. If you were a woman the insults would likely be worse. "You can't tell me I'm not perfect" is the standard ideology around these parts.

Perhaps it's Gabe's Greater Internet Fuckwad[1] theory at work? Maybe we need to teach proper philosophy in school? I dunno. But humanity in general is a major let-down.

[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

Slashdot suffers from the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

You should at least cite your sources :P

I'm pretty sure I can post open and honest comments while not being anonymous. Unless you define open and honest as the requirement of being allowed to devolve into a stream of profanity and hate at even the smallest amount of disagreement.

Penny Arcade put it best.
Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad
http://www.penny-arcade.com/co...

I think this is pretty interesting. Out in society where someone has a face and a name where people behave as if their actions will affect them, but they feel as if online anonymity is a right for them to leverage for their otherwise hidden secret feelings that would normally ruin their reputation. Oh no somebody says something in public that's hateful or otherwise resentful and chastise them for their opinion, but it's totally ok for them and those who crucify them to do it anonymously online.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for anonymous communication but we should be using it as a tool and not a weapon. Unfortunately it's far far far too commonly used as a weapon and that's what drove the newspaper and others to eliminate it. Though retroactively removing the anonymity I don't agree with, it's basically exposing to the world into the deep dark sides people don't want to share. Now you know your neighbor is a homophobe and your kids teacher is a racist, and your wife is actually a generally terrible person. The internet has lots of places you can go be a total pile of crap anonymously, there's no need to do it as publicly as possible via comments to your local news paper.

That was the Surface Pro 3, not the new Surface Pro 4, and Microsoft largely addressed his issues in their firmware update last October: http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/11/01/surface-3-update

The new model is significantly more powerful, with no noticeable parallax or lag, and a greatly improved display: http://gizmodo.com/the-surface-pro-4-has-the-most-accurate-tablet-display-1738801322

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/

Apparently, depending on your goals, it could improve your career chances

Slashdot does cause morons. Here's the proof.

1. You can buy a new Mac plus iPhone for half that. Replace the iPhone with an iPod Touch or iPad to save a few hundred more. Used devices also work fine.

2. With minor tweaking you can get OS X running in a VM, use XCode's iOS simulator to do most of your development testing, and invite friend(s) with iOS devices to do on-device beta testing.

3. Then again, if you have no interest in owning or using an Apple product, it's probably best you don't develop for the platform.

4. http://www.penny-arcade.com/co...

All nice in theory, but you're working on the assumption that the only motivator to write an app is for commercial gains. If that is indeed your only motivator then you may as well shell out a little and it might pay off.

However a not-insignificant portion of the world's most popular software was created to scratch an itch. On iOS you have to pay if you want to scratch an itch. So, all the other platforms get the scratched-itch software (i.e. found to be genuinely useful and can't-live-without for at least one person, opssibly more) while iOS gets Peace, or Crystal.

1. You can buy a new Mac plus iPhone for half that. Replace the iPhone with an iPod Touch or iPad to save a few hundred more. Used devices also work fine.

2. With minor tweaking you can get OS X running in a VM, use XCode's iOS simulator to do most of your development testing, and invite friend(s) with iOS devices to do on-device beta testing.

3. Then again, if you have no interest in owning or using an Apple product, it's probably best you don't develop for the platform.

4. http://www.penny-arcade.com/co...

You can't possibly be a real person! It's like a caricature of someone so destroyed by that which they hate, that they become an even greater evil. Your hatred of hipsters has caused you to become a vile, filth-spewing menace to polite society.

Penny Arcade had something to say on this kind of thing. Sad thing is that they're right.

I think playing it straight in-universe in any of the settings is probably missing the mark, even though that's exactly what the movie will end up doing.

There are tons of excellent fantasy properties out there, including the aforementioned GoTs, that are already story-driven because, well, they're stories. The whole point of D&D is to make your own story and frontal cortex your way out of tight situations--the now-cliched generic fantasy stuff** is just the wall covering that keeps a set of mechanical game rules from becoming Office: The Businessing.

If moviemakers want to use the D&D name and history for more than just a ticket jackoff, they'll need to evoke the whole tabletop gaming ethos. Which means they should go for a 4th-wall-breaking fantasy/comedy style (see Acquisitions Inc.) that, e.g., Never Ending Stories some gamers into the fantasy world. Or in some other ways captures the fickle whims of the dice roll.

But undifferentiated fantasy, even in a script chock-full of fan service characters and places, is not a recipe for success.

**Of course, D&D (and its forebear LotR) is largely responsible for cliche-ifying this stuff in the first place.

I think playing it straight in-universe in any of the settings is probably missing the mark, even though that's exactly what the movie will end up doing.

There are tons of excellent fantasy properties out there, including the aforementioned GoTs, that are already story-driven because, well, they're stories. The whole point of D&D is to make your own story and frontal cortex your way out of tight situations--the now-cliched generic fantasy stuff** is just the wall covering that keeps a set of mechanical game rules from becoming Office: The Businessing.

If moviemakers want to use the D&D name and history for more than just a ticket jackoff, they'll need to evoke the whole tabletop gaming ethos. Which means they should go for a 4th-wall-breaking fantasy/comedy style (see Acquisitions Inc.) that, e.g., Never Ending Stories some gamers into the fantasy world. Or in some other ways captures the fickle whims of the dice roll.

But undifferentiated fantasy, even in a script chock-full of fan service characters and places, is not a recipe for success.

**Of course, D&D (and its forebear LotR) is largely responsible for cliche-ifying this stuff in the first place.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/co...