I don't think that sexism is the right word for it. I think that it is a logical fallacy due to not having met any engaging, attractive people. Maybe we could call it generically-attractivism.
You mean: "...the market will KNOW that eventually the oil supply will rise by a small percentage - small enough not to make much of a difference." Of course that statement is assuming that the people in charge of the oil companies setting the price are actually paying attention to the potential loss of billions of dollars in revenue from some short-term loss by skittish investors that don't know where they are going.
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Sure, I'm still too much of a pack rat. (That'll change once I get someplace I can permanently Stash Stuff.)
That doesn't stop you from being a pack rat. I'm the same way, though. I purchased two homes in that game just for my loot. One of them was highly decorative, the other was just a shack for me to put potentially useful crap.
If the raid were scheduled in a similar fashion, no I would not. However, in guilds that raid infrequently or in PUGs, it is not uncommon to have raids called close to last minute - more like a night out with friends. Not all raiders are hardcore, though you portray it that way.
Sad that you think it is more likely her fault than his. I've known a fair number of people who play warcraft that will even ignore their wife/girlfriend's advances because they feel some silly raid obligation or somesuch. Most of these women are actually awesome people and some of those awesome people are attractive women.
I play WoW myself, but find that, for me, the game can't hold a candle to my woman. The great thing is that I managed to find a group of like minded people with a guild large enough and with enough associations that when we are raiding or doing whatever and someone has to/wants to leave for family/friends/other, no one gets upset, we just post for a replacement in our alliance channel and wait a few minutes before continuing on. It's really quite enjoyable.
I would like to think if the cow could focus simultaneously in different directions, the cow would simply have two visual fields. Who said that visual fields *have* to be processed as one? The purpose of single field processing is for depth perception.
I was born into quite the poor family. My parents worked their way up into middle class, though just barely. I am just inside middle class, as well and can still say that I would prefer have my SS money in hand, so I could make it go farther. I would have liked to use that money to directly fund college for myself with a much lowered school loan. I would also be able to pay off said loan much more quickly, due to a larger pay check. Once out of school, I could begin to invest the extra money that I am making by not having to pay into SS (considering that I can, and do, now live off less than my paycheck) and create a much better retirement package for myself than I'll ever get with the government.
I don't feel sorry for the people that would squander their extra cash for a "nice ride" or some "phat lewt" or whatever. If they don't want to plan for the future, I hope they at least treated their children right so that they may care enough about them to support them.
Dotgain is right on all accounts. You see, most users who get the bullshit from elitist pricks are not in imminent danger of leaving FOSS nor are they the kind of upper-management jerks that want everything done yesterday. They are people that heard all of this good stuff about it, have a little technical understanding and are *willing* to try out the communities' efforts. When this class of user is abused by the community that it was expecting to be willing to help, especially considering the glowing advocacy given by the persons that got that class of user interested, the user may feel betrayed. Often, and I've seen it plenty of times, after some elitist gets through trashing a n00b, a developer who actually cares about the open source projects getting off the ground will come through and answer the user's questions - it's a shame that that user rarely replies back on whether it works or not, because the user is no longer a user at that point.
No no no, the technocracy would like you to think that nature and reality are immutable, but as any of the other orders will tell you, the technocracy is just better at convincing the majority that they are right.
I never felt boxed in by anything but the other players. But then I am extremely individualistic. And I eventually found a guild that welcomed me, my individuality and my tactical abilities.
Yeah, I know I am cutting your reply to hell, and I agree with most of it but...
The quests are too redundant, there is absolutely ZERO reward for exploration of the map
They are changing this with the new expansion - titles and such.
If you want to be successful in dungeons and raiding, you have to follow the same path as anyone else. You almost cannot be versatile in how you play. I'm not sure how it is now in WoW as I haven't played in a few months, but at one point, if you want to be a warrior and play end-game content, you cannot be fury. BM hunters were avoided. Combat rogues were ignored. And so on. Even if you did end up in a decent group as an arcane mage or survival hunter, you couldn't contribute. There was always just one recipe to success and that was what killed the game for me.
This is a result of people being close-minded, not the way things actually worked. I've played a fury warrior since the inception of WoW and have done quite well the whole way through. In fact, I was upset when they made several of the changes to Fury to make it "better" In some ways it was better, but in others the change sucked. That's the nature of redesigning character builds.
Also, from where I stood, Arcane Mage was (and still is) always the best spec for raiding - people are just too impatient and want to see big numbers or don't pay attention to what they are doing with their characters. *shrug*
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I don't think that sexism is the right word for it. I think that it is a logical fallacy due to not having met any engaging, attractive people. Maybe we could call it generically-attractivism.
You mean: "...the market will KNOW that eventually the oil supply will rise by a small percentage - small enough not to make much of a difference." Of course that statement is assuming that the people in charge of the oil companies setting the price are actually paying attention to the potential loss of billions of dollars in revenue from some short-term loss by skittish investors that don't know where they are going.
Sure, I'm still too much of a pack rat. (That'll change once I get someplace I can permanently Stash Stuff.)
That doesn't stop you from being a pack rat. I'm the same way, though. I purchased two homes in that game just for my loot. One of them was highly decorative, the other was just a shack for me to put potentially useful crap.
You would prefer Jabberwock, perhaps?
Watch out for that blackhole cluster.
Best haiku evar
Mad props are due all to you
Cooled food device too
Late post - Damn right (to the sentiment in parentheses).
If the raid were scheduled in a similar fashion, no I would not. However, in guilds that raid infrequently or in PUGs, it is not uncommon to have raids called close to last minute - more like a night out with friends. Not all raiders are hardcore, though you portray it that way.
Thanks for fleshing out what was intended to be an inference.
I have second-hand knowledge of that side of things, as well.
Sad that you think it is more likely her fault than his. I've known a fair number of people who play warcraft that will even ignore their wife/girlfriend's advances because they feel some silly raid obligation or somesuch. Most of these women are actually awesome people and some of those awesome people are attractive women.
I play WoW myself, but find that, for me, the game can't hold a candle to my woman. The great thing is that I managed to find a group of like minded people with a guild large enough and with enough associations that when we are raiding or doing whatever and someone has to/wants to leave for family/friends/other, no one gets upset, we just post for a replacement in our alliance channel and wait a few minutes before continuing on. It's really quite enjoyable.
I would like to think if the cow could focus simultaneously in different directions, the cow would simply have two visual fields. Who said that visual fields *have* to be processed as one? The purpose of single field processing is for depth perception.
I was born into quite the poor family. My parents worked their way up into middle class, though just barely. I am just inside middle class, as well and can still say that I would prefer have my SS money in hand, so I could make it go farther. I would have liked to use that money to directly fund college for myself with a much lowered school loan. I would also be able to pay off said loan much more quickly, due to a larger pay check. Once out of school, I could begin to invest the extra money that I am making by not having to pay into SS (considering that I can, and do, now live off less than my paycheck) and create a much better retirement package for myself than I'll ever get with the government.
I don't feel sorry for the people that would squander their extra cash for a "nice ride" or some "phat lewt" or whatever. If they don't want to plan for the future, I hope they at least treated their children right so that they may care enough about them to support them.
Dotgain is right on all accounts. You see, most users who get the bullshit from elitist pricks are not in imminent danger of leaving FOSS nor are they the kind of upper-management jerks that want everything done yesterday. They are people that heard all of this good stuff about it, have a little technical understanding and are *willing* to try out the communities' efforts. When this class of user is abused by the community that it was expecting to be willing to help, especially considering the glowing advocacy given by the persons that got that class of user interested, the user may feel betrayed. Often, and I've seen it plenty of times, after some elitist gets through trashing a n00b, a developer who actually cares about the open source projects getting off the ground will come through and answer the user's questions - it's a shame that that user rarely replies back on whether it works or not, because the user is no longer a user at that point.
Read about bose-einstein condensates and how they can hold light wave forms for long periods.
This site may be of some help.
The tarrasque will indeed come for you.
That's better than the jerk that gets in the left hand lane just to drive in your blind spot. GAH!
To be fair, the only thing to avoid is the capitalization of the word. That definitely would indicate a reference to the Vodoun practices.
Hah, play White Wolf's Mage sometime :D
No no no, the technocracy would like you to think that nature and reality are immutable, but as any of the other orders will tell you, the technocracy is just better at convincing the majority that they are right.
I never felt boxed in by anything but the other players. But then I am extremely individualistic. And I eventually found a guild that welcomed me, my individuality and my tactical abilities.
I think this is intentional, make the flood ugly and horrifyingly so in contrast to the natural orderly life around it.
*parry and riposte* Touché!
Yeah, I know I am cutting your reply to hell, and I agree with most of it but...
The quests are too redundant, there is absolutely ZERO reward for exploration of the map
They are changing this with the new expansion - titles and such.
If you want to be successful in dungeons and raiding, you have to follow the same path as anyone else. You almost cannot be versatile in how you play. I'm not sure how it is now in WoW as I haven't played in a few months, but at one point, if you want to be a warrior and play end-game content, you cannot be fury. BM hunters were avoided. Combat rogues were ignored. And so on. Even if you did end up in a decent group as an arcane mage or survival hunter, you couldn't contribute. There was always just one recipe to success and that was what killed the game for me.
This is a result of people being close-minded, not the way things actually worked. I've played a fury warrior since the inception of WoW and have done quite well the whole way through. In fact, I was upset when they made several of the changes to Fury to make it "better" In some ways it was better, but in others the change sucked. That's the nature of redesigning character builds.
Also, from where I stood, Arcane Mage was (and still is) always the best spec for raiding - people are just too impatient and want to see big numbers or don't pay attention to what they are doing with their characters. *shrug*
Did you seriously just say that Einstein had yet-unmatched intelligence?!
Go read up on DaVinci, Voltaire and Babbage, just to name a few!
You, sir, win.