I would have thought they'd be much better off, instead of sending one woman and a bunch of men, to send equally matched numbers of men and women. That, and select somewhat more... affectionate... women than average, that way no-one will be left out.;)
I'm serious, I'm sure that there are geeky hooker chicks out there who would love to experiment with zero-G callisthenics and who would also be perfectly good candidates for astronauts. As long as the team bonded OK in the beginning, it should work quite well.
I concur, and this is something that's been increasingly annoying me over the last few years (get off my lawn!). People seem to refer to anything with more than a couple of degrees of freedom as a "robot" even when it's blatantly remote controlled by a human operator. Robot Wars is a prime offender - they're not robots, they're glorified friggin' RC cars. I always thought the best entry would be one that jammed the others' radios while roaming around autonomously with an angle grinder.
Wouldn't it make sense to equip soldiers with emergency 'blood banks'? So in case of massive blood loss, the brain and heart close off to form their own little system, leaving the tougher tissues to fend for themselves? It's always annoyed me that my most essential systems are so closely tied in with what should be expendable extremities - it seems like bad design when losing a leg could kill my brain through loss of blood.
Maybe the whole system just kind of evolved instead of being intelligently designed?:P
You've managed to completely avoid addressing what I actually said, which was that porn is defined as material designed to arouse prurient interest and that most MTV clips are designed in order to be arousing.
I never said porn is bad (it isn't, I quite like it) and I certainly never said porn should be outlawed. I'm right with you on the not wanting some Puritan telling me what I can and can't watch.
I thought it was more along the lines of:
1) Woo venture capitalists for funding for a huge, AAA game. Talk lots about the AAA games that make money.
2) Pay yourself and your friends sh*tloads of money because you're awesomesauce producers working on producing a AAA game.
3a) Spend all your venture capital on (2), and on flying yourself and friends around the world to industry expos.
3b) Set crazy deadlines because only 1/3 of your capital is going towards the actual development of the game.
4) Step back, let the company fold, and leave with your 3 years' worth of executive salary. Blame everyone else for the game's failure.
I'm still trying to figure out whether 3a or 4 is the '???'.
There are genuine geek girls out there, and they're awesome. I found mine as a diamond in the rough... but as I said to her the other day, you know you've found your soulmate when she tells you via IM that "we really should form an Arena team".;)
Women love that. If you're taken, then obviously some _other_ woman thinks you're worth having, and she may be on to something. The hotter your partner is, the better. Plus being unavailable means that you're a can't-have, and so you automatically become a do-want.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and
I've only had one or two people say my car is 'compensating' for anything, I always reply that it's compensating for the fact that I can't run at 140mph.
Exactly. Borrow a friend's puppy or (better yet) offer to take their 6-month-old for a stroll around the park. You'll be surrounded by women cooing at your cute little dependant and wanting to know how they can meet such a sensitive, family minded guy. If the laptop's working then hey, you can have the same effect while using something you actually have a use for.;)
*vocoder-sounding voice* Hmmmmmmmmnnnn of course, that was specified very clearly in the hnnnggggg historicaldocuments. For many years, we were unsure of the nhhhghhhhh purpose of these nnnnndevices.
Honestly, I'm baffled my Molyneux's drive to bring emotion to games like this. Is there really a demand for it?
I think there is a definite place for emotional connection in computer games. I do think, though, that there's not much space for Buffy-season-5-style character abuse. That was some of the most depressing shit I've ever watched, and if it had been a game rather than a movie I'd probably have stopped playing at that point. Nothing pisses me off me more in games than 'unwinnable' scripted losses.
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+1, informative. :P
Seriously, though, if they have enough spare computing power for the crew to work on hobby programming projects they'll barely notice the duration.
I would have thought they'd be much better off, instead of sending one woman and a bunch of men, to send equally matched numbers of men and women. That, and select somewhat more... affectionate... women than average, that way no-one will be left out. ;)
I'm serious, I'm sure that there are geeky hooker chicks out there who would love to experiment with zero-G callisthenics and who would also be perfectly good candidates for astronauts. As long as the team bonded OK in the beginning, it should work quite well.
Especially if you take a laptop as hand luggage and sign up for wireless broadband... $20k plus 100 days straight to play WoW, hell I'd sign up!
I concur, and this is something that's been increasingly annoying me over the last few years (get off my lawn!). People seem to refer to anything with more than a couple of degrees of freedom as a "robot" even when it's blatantly remote controlled by a human operator. Robot Wars is a prime offender - they're not robots, they're glorified friggin' RC cars. I always thought the best entry would be one that jammed the others' radios while roaming around autonomously with an angle grinder.
TFA is talking about a Waldo, not a robot.
You can have p.ie. I reserve both "cakeisal.ie" and "puss.ie". ;)
I thought it was the Metric Shitload, although the slightly smaller Imperial Shitload and the slightly larger U.S. Shitload are competing standards.
Wouldn't it make sense to equip soldiers with emergency 'blood banks'? So in case of massive blood loss, the brain and heart close off to form their own little system, leaving the tougher tissues to fend for themselves? It's always annoyed me that my most essential systems are so closely tied in with what should be expendable extremities - it seems like bad design when losing a leg could kill my brain through loss of blood.
:P
Maybe the whole system just kind of evolved instead of being intelligently designed?
It's Japan dude. Why would he have an inflatable doll in a country where you can hire schoolgirls?
As long as they can supply me with new, synthetic liver and kidney before this faux-blood kills my current ones, I'm all for it.
;)
I like the idea of being able to take my liver in for a tuneup instead of just having to stop drinking for a week every now and then.
Wow. That's one gnarly post. You know Slashdot has a preview function, right?
The probably, it's hard to miss. ;)
You've managed to completely avoid addressing what I actually said, which was that porn is defined as material designed to arouse prurient interest and that most MTV clips are designed in order to be arousing.
I never said porn is bad (it isn't, I quite like it) and I certainly never said porn should be outlawed. I'm right with you on the not wanting some Puritan telling me what I can and can't watch.
Maybe because three months ago I had to leave (due to a desire to support my wife and myself with a stable income) a company that's at step (4)? :/
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
I thought it was more along the lines of:
1) Woo venture capitalists for funding for a huge, AAA game. Talk lots about the AAA games that make money.
2) Pay yourself and your friends sh*tloads of money because you're awesomesauce producers working on producing a AAA game.
3a) Spend all your venture capital on (2), and on flying yourself and friends around the world to industry expos.
3b) Set crazy deadlines because only 1/3 of your capital is going towards the actual development of the game.
4) Step back, let the company fold, and leave with your 3 years' worth of executive salary. Blame everyone else for the game's failure.
I'm still trying to figure out whether 3a or 4 is the '???'.
Yeah, maybe WikiLeaks could be next? >.>
Ye jest, and yet ye speak such truth!
There are genuine geek girls out there, and they're awesome. I found mine as a diamond in the rough... but as I said to her the other day, you know you've found your soulmate when she tells you via IM that "we really should form an Arena team". ;)
So? Most men with babies are taken.
Women love that. If you're taken, then obviously some _other_ woman thinks you're worth having, and she may be on to something. The hotter your partner is, the better. Plus being unavailable means that you're a can't-have, and so you automatically become a do-want.
(OT sig response:
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and
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Japanese schoolgirls. Yeah.
I've only had one or two people say my car is 'compensating' for anything, I always reply that it's compensating for the fact that I can't run at 140mph.
Exactly. Borrow a friend's puppy or (better yet) offer to take their 6-month-old for a stroll around the park. You'll be surrounded by women cooing at your cute little dependant and wanting to know how they can meet such a sensitive, family minded guy. If the laptop's working then hey, you can have the same effect while using something you actually have a use for. ;)
*vocoder-sounding voice* Hmmmmmmmmnnnn of course, that was specified very clearly in the hnnnggggg historicaldocuments. For many years, we were unsure of the nhhhghhhhh purpose of these nnnnndevices.
The original basis was the "cargo cults" but I wouldn't be surprised if any video you found turned out to actually be a Snickers ad or something.
Honestly, I'm baffled my Molyneux's drive to bring emotion to games like this. Is there really a demand for it?
I think there is a definite place for emotional connection in computer games. I do think, though, that there's not much space for Buffy-season-5-style character abuse. That was some of the most depressing shit I've ever watched, and if it had been a game rather than a movie I'd probably have stopped playing at that point. Nothing pisses me off me more in games than 'unwinnable' scripted losses.
more like french teacher amirite