Spanking and child abuse are about as similar as lovemaking and rape. There is a time and place where spanking is appropriate. Sometimes the kid is too young to be able to really get through to them with tamer punishments. Sometimes it's absolutely crucial that they learn this NOW, not a few repetitions of the bad behavior from now. It's a legitimate parenting technique in certain situations... it just needs to be used sparingly. A parent that spanks for every offense, or spanks their 10-year-old who is old enough to not need it, is a poor parent... not parents who spank in general.
It doesn't make the game more playable to me. Hey now... anything makes the game more playable than 2.0. I've seen bricks that were more playable games than D&D 2.0.
Jumpgate Evolution looks pretty intriguing. I'm not sure if that'll scratch my X-Wing itch, but I'm willing to give it a shot, it looks like it has a chance at being good.
It's neither ok, nor justifiable... but neither is your attitude. Contrary to your assertions, the fact that it was a different division of Sony, and happened a long time ago, means EVERYTHING. Your "I refuse to have anything to do with Sony" rant is pretty childish. They did wrong. Let them be punished, and then let's go about our business like normal. We don't have to refuse to do any business with all divisions of Sony for the next $foo years because of it... there is such a thing as overkill.
uhm, can we sue them? What the fuck are we going to sue them for? And how does this have anything to do with OSS? Sony chooses to make money off of developers by selling them devkits. Now that the PS2/PSP devkits aren't worth as much, they're willing to let them go for free. That's how business generally works... when something is worth less, lower the price.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't discern any sort of reason at all why you're suddenly dragging OSS into this. Not to mention... sue them? WTF?
No more memorized spells at all...you learn, "Otlukes flaming bunghole" you can cast it every round like you were swinging a sword. WOO-HOO! This alone makes the new rules worth looking at... memorized spells was nothing short of retarded!
Depends if that's what the players want or not. A good DM is one who runs the game so that everyone has fun. A bad DM is one who runs the game so that people aren't having fun. If you have a group of players who want hack-and-slash (which is my preferred mode for D&D, incidentally), cramming tons of roleplaying down their throats is bad DM-ing.
Microsoft knows that web applications will soon threaten their client-side sales model. That'll be the day. Even well-done web applications like Gmail are still inferior to desktop applications. Web applications are useful, but they will NEVER replace traditional desktop apps.
you are either ignorant or heartless. Not caring about an issue is not the same as heartlessness. I don't give a flying fsck about the plight of the elephants, but I'm about as far from heartless as they come. Everyone has some things they don't care about, that doesn't make them bad people.
Most of your post is accurate (even if it won't be popular), but I couldn't help noticing one thing:
MediaSentry and other RIAA hackers have done no harm. Oh really?
I did the same thing, and got my 60 million figure. Maybe I entered a number wrong into the calculator, I dunno. Yours certainly sounds more reasonable, so I'm willing to believe that I messed up.
That's a matter of personal taste. I think that it's cool that they're giving away a hot gaming setup like that, and I'm glad I know about it. You do realize that, if you get right down to it, pretty much every story posted on here is an advertisement, right?
Actually, I have S&M, and love the hell out of it... but as a rule, I can't stand any of the older tracks on there. I just plain don't think Metallica was very good before TBA, sorry. Exceptions: Fade to Black and One.
I dunno, Load and Reload had some decent/good songs. Unforgiven II had a beautiful guitar riff which was the sole reason I learned to play guitar. For my money, it's the early Metallica that I can't stand... never did see why anyone gets so worked up about it. The band didn't really get good until the black album, imnsho.
And I'm only including those who speak it as a first language due to lack of another metric I could think of measuring how commonly the people speak English. I have a friend, for example, who speaks fluent Japanese, but he almost never uses it... really, he wouldn't fit into any reasonable tally of "Japanese speakers", if trying to determine how the language is commonly spoken. If you have a better way to measure how commonly someone speaks a language, by all means, go ahead and use that.
"Bludge" is a common word in most of the English speaking word... Adding up the numbers on Wikipedia (not a perfect source, probably, but good enough) of people who speak English as a first language (and are not living in the US), I get just under 60 million. The population of the US who speaks English as a first language is 215 million. "Bludge" is not a common word here, so no, it is not a common word in most of the English-speaking world.
the movie studios will soon follow as the cost and necessary technical expertise drop. Really now? That's funny, because, while indie music is viable nowadays, every indie movie I've ever seen looked like shit. We're a long way off from having Hollywood die, if it ever happens.
I did. And for the record, I'm very open-minded (and, in my estimation, of average intelligence, but I suppose one can't accurately judge oneself). As soon as I heard from a friend what Obama had said, I went to look for the actual words that came out of his mouth, thinking that it might have been blown out of proportion. I found the quote (wasn't hard, of course), and sure enough, it wasn't being blown out of proportion.
So don't go assuming I didn't do any research into it, just because I consider him elitist and bigoted as a result of his words. That'd be quite the unreasonable assumption.
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Spanking and child abuse are about as similar as lovemaking and rape. There is a time and place where spanking is appropriate. Sometimes the kid is too young to be able to really get through to them with tamer punishments. Sometimes it's absolutely crucial that they learn this NOW, not a few repetitions of the bad behavior from now. It's a legitimate parenting technique in certain situations... it just needs to be used sparingly. A parent that spanks for every offense, or spanks their 10-year-old who is old enough to not need it, is a poor parent... not parents who spank in general.
He didn't threaten to beat anyone up. Read before you flame.
Jumpgate Evolution looks pretty intriguing. I'm not sure if that'll scratch my X-Wing itch, but I'm willing to give it a shot, it looks like it has a chance at being good.
It's neither ok, nor justifiable... but neither is your attitude. Contrary to your assertions, the fact that it was a different division of Sony, and happened a long time ago, means EVERYTHING. Your "I refuse to have anything to do with Sony" rant is pretty childish. They did wrong. Let them be punished, and then let's go about our business like normal. We don't have to refuse to do any business with all divisions of Sony for the next $foo years because of it... there is such a thing as overkill.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't discern any sort of reason at all why you're suddenly dragging OSS into this. Not to mention... sue them? WTF?
Also, we need another game in the X-Wing series even worse. I'd pretty much kill for another one of those...
Depends if that's what the players want or not. A good DM is one who runs the game so that everyone has fun. A bad DM is one who runs the game so that people aren't having fun. If you have a group of players who want hack-and-slash (which is my preferred mode for D&D, incidentally), cramming tons of roleplaying down their throats is bad DM-ing.
Whoosh.
I have to say, anyone who argues that playing WoW (and don't get me wrong, I love WoW) is somehow more useful than watching TV is pretty delusional.
I did the same thing, and got my 60 million figure. Maybe I entered a number wrong into the calculator, I dunno. Yours certainly sounds more reasonable, so I'm willing to believe that I messed up.
That's a matter of personal taste. I think that it's cool that they're giving away a hot gaming setup like that, and I'm glad I know about it. You do realize that, if you get right down to it, pretty much every story posted on here is an advertisement, right?
Actually, I have S&M, and love the hell out of it... but as a rule, I can't stand any of the older tracks on there. I just plain don't think Metallica was very good before TBA, sorry. Exceptions: Fade to Black and One.
I dunno, Load and Reload had some decent/good songs. Unforgiven II had a beautiful guitar riff which was the sole reason I learned to play guitar. For my money, it's the early Metallica that I can't stand... never did see why anyone gets so worked up about it. The band didn't really get good until the black album, imnsho.
And I'm only including those who speak it as a first language due to lack of another metric I could think of measuring how commonly the people speak English. I have a friend, for example, who speaks fluent Japanese, but he almost never uses it... really, he wouldn't fit into any reasonable tally of "Japanese speakers", if trying to determine how the language is commonly spoken. If you have a better way to measure how commonly someone speaks a language, by all means, go ahead and use that.
No, it's still innocent until proven guilty. The standard of proof is just different.
Proof that mindlessly categorizing a candidate by party affiliation is profoundly stupid.
So don't go assuming I didn't do any research into it, just because I consider him elitist and bigoted as a result of his words. That'd be quite the unreasonable assumption.