Slashdot Mirror
Sims 2 Goes Gold
Dan Farina writes "The long awaited 'The Sims 2' has gone Gold, as seen on the latest posting on Maxis' The Sims 2 updates page. It appears that it will be on time after all, an unusual occurrence in this industry." I'm already having a strange obsessive twitching in my left leg. I think I might need to use up some vacation time in September.
oops... responded to the wrong post. Oh well.
I've just signed legislation that'll outlaw Russia forever. We'll begin bombing in five minutes.
Religion was the first form of escapism. Life sure feels better if you know that when you die and did nothing but work, at least in afterlife you'll reap the rewards. Yet I see you promote religion as advantageous. Family can be "escapism", too (well, depends on the definition, but I'd say we should go by the effect, not the way of archieving it), since it makes you feel better when you're not working.
I think the more and more sophisticated forms of escapism in the western world might be related to people adapting to the stimuli. There was a time when people became so emotional over books they killed themselves out of depression (Goethe - Die Leiden des jungen Werther was one of those). There was a time people became obsessed by playing a game where you deflect the dot with a line. Nowadays those stimuli would work on few.
We are adjusting to our drugs, now we need harder ones (okay, real drugs work for that purpose, too).
I don't see that as a sign for the downfall of a culture (why? Because everybody's slacking off? No, that has other reasons like labour laws and a social system tat doesn't let people starve on the street if they don't work twenty hours a day in sweatshops). I agree that the west will become less important unless some gov gets the idea that to uphold their domiance they need to declare a large scale war, but entirely for different reasons.
Gah, I have a feeling this is seriously off-topic.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
I thought this may have been posted seriously then ./ers moderated it as funny. There are a fightening number of people who actually believe in what you've posted as a joke. In these times, in this presidential race, I have been bombarded with opinions resulting from simplistic thinking. Blatent stupidity just isn't funny to me anymore
"This [xu.edu] is not a scam" http://www.cs.xu.edu/~neyer/Ipod.htm OT, but i had to say something about this sig.. this is SO a scam. In ten levels of your pyramid scheme you've come close to the population of the planet. The first 5 levels would get one, but are you the one to tell them that all of the ninth tier people come up on 6,103,515,625 people in order to get an IPod? Give me a break.. not even on /. are we immune to internet scams. Amazing.
IANALOOA
Just abusing Karma to send a shoutout to my homie Alex Hutch who is probably reading this thread with a fine-toothed...####***METAPHOR BREAKDOWN
By the time you finish reading this sentence will end.