This is the exact reason I avoid MMO's like the plague. I know what would happen to me, because it's happened before with IRC. At least then I was 17 and had nothing to lose.
Au contraire. I started playing when I was 22, working full time and had moved out of home. I had nothing else to do on the evenings so why not? At the time some of my friends were still in school/uni when they started playing and I remember thinking "god, I'm glad I didn't start playing this while I had study to do".
Point. In my experience, though, generally they like to give out "you're going to die" type news in person. Hell, even the results of a standard blood test require you to go in and pay the standard consultation tax.
I can watch a movie where someone gruesomely tortures people to death in a public theater, but god forbid should we watch two people love each other in a sexual moment.
I've always found this annoying. Why can I watch a movie or play a game involving what amounts to genocide, but not something that represents legal, safe, consensual sex?
Note that for a diameter of 10 the circumference is 30 (so pi=3.0), not 31 or 31 and a little bit as the atheists and infidels claim. Alternatively, the Earth was much smaller when this particular biblical passage was written, the whole planet having a diameter of just 19 cubits...
What if the "ten cubits from rim to rim" isn't referring to straight line distance, but distance along the interior of the 'sea'? That would make it a section of a sphere 19 cubits in diameter, and honestly is a perfectly reasonable interpretation.
Two potential reasons: First, many land titles only actually give you the rights to the surface, down to a depth of a few feet/meters. Secondly, the ground conducts heat fairly poorly (that's why it's a constant temperature a few meters underground regardless of the surface temperature) and so once you've heated up that rock and soil you've drilled into, it's going to stay hot for a long time.
That sentence is a STATEMENT, not a QUESTION. Therefore, you DO NOT USE A FUCKING QUESTION MARK.
The problem was a missing comma after 'wonder', not an inappropriate interrogation mark. The intent was obviously to ask, "I wonder, how many people play WoW offline?"
What about a game that encourages learning terrorist languages like Arabic or Mandarin Chinese?
When I was a kid I wanted to learn Chinese. I figured it's the most populous country on the planet (couldn't have known then that it would become such an economic powerhouse though!). What finally stopped me was finding out that there was no such language. I started trying to learn Cantonese, then I found out about Mandarin, and I gave up. I don't have time to learn those two let alone Orange, Lemon and Banana Chinese. And I'm not sure I even have the right biology to speak Formal Nectarine.
There's been talk that Starcraft II would not support LAN. The reason I am a fan of Starcraft and want to buy Starcraft II is I spent many many hours playing it in LAN cafes. People will be doing LAN with pirated version anyway, they'll just run their own battle.net server locally and the only thing you'll achieve is piss off other consummers with a crippled product. Why oh why?
It's not crippled, you douche. It just doesn't have LAN-only play - when was the last time you were at a LAN with no internet access? I'm betting some time around 1999.
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Depends how long you need to sustain that speed. The fastest recorded human running speed is 48km/h, or just shy of 30mph.
Bears are cool. When I grow up I want to be a bear.
How is manually entering a MAC address into your router's configuration easier than entering a password into your friend's laptop?
It requires access to the router rather than just access to a device not under his control.
If you're using floating point numbers in the game logic of a networked RTS you're doing it wrong.
This is the exact reason I avoid MMO's like the plague. I know what would happen to me, because it's happened before with IRC. At least then I was 17 and had nothing to lose.
Au contraire. I started playing when I was 22, working full time and had moved out of home. I had nothing else to do on the evenings so why not? At the time some of my friends were still in school/uni when they started playing and I remember thinking "god, I'm glad I didn't start playing this while I had study to do".
Actually the level 80 Blood Elf hunter that I'm dating belongs to my wife. So yeah. Likes a bit of Orc Warrior in her, you might say.
Personally I was expecting "@fractoid ur dyin lol brain cancer ftl"
Point. In my experience, though, generally they like to give out "you're going to die" type news in person. Hell, even the results of a standard blood test require you to go in and pay the standard consultation tax.
If I got a random letter saying I had a fatal neurological condition, I'd be slightly sceptical. Maybe that's just me though.
Anyone who claims to be 9 inches is obviously less than 6 inches. It's really not fun when it doesn't fit.
I can watch a movie where someone gruesomely tortures people to death in a public theater, but god forbid should we watch two people love each other in a sexual moment.
I've always found this annoying. Why can I watch a movie or play a game involving what amounts to genocide, but not something that represents legal, safe, consensual sex?
Unfortunately, this technique seems inadequate to patch my empty heart. No matter how many times I try.
Try using enough small children as cell donors.
what the hell
Maybe if you're married & have children you shouldn't be looking at porn, then you wouldn't have that problem...
If you're married and have children, there's a good chance it's the only regular action you're going to get.
See, I'm a man of simple tastes. I like dynamite, and gunpowder... And gasoline! Do you know what all of these things have in common? They're cheap!
Note that for a diameter of 10 the circumference is 30 (so pi=3.0), not 31 or 31 and a little bit as the atheists and infidels claim. Alternatively, the Earth was much smaller when this particular biblical passage was written, the whole planet having a diameter of just 19 cubits...
What if the "ten cubits from rim to rim" isn't referring to straight line distance, but distance along the interior of the 'sea'? That would make it a section of a sphere 19 cubits in diameter, and honestly is a perfectly reasonable interpretation.
I wonder why they didn't just drill down?
Two potential reasons: First, many land titles only actually give you the rights to the surface, down to a depth of a few feet/meters. Secondly, the ground conducts heat fairly poorly (that's why it's a constant temperature a few meters underground regardless of the surface temperature) and so once you've heated up that rock and soil you've drilled into, it's going to stay hot for a long time.
I've done this with object IDs but... function pointers? That's deliciously evil!
I knew it! It really WAS true!
John Titor sent it just before disappearing.
Where'd he get to anyway?
Every control structure in C++ is equivalent to either a goto or jnz plus some syntactic sugar.
That sentence is a STATEMENT, not a QUESTION. Therefore, you DO NOT USE A FUCKING QUESTION MARK.
The problem was a missing comma after 'wonder', not an inappropriate interrogation mark. The intent was obviously to ask, "I wonder, how many people play WoW offline?"
I thought everyone had that dream?
But can it the same place twice ?
Generally it can't the same place twice because after the first time the same place isn't anymore.
What about a game that encourages learning terrorist languages like Arabic or Mandarin Chinese?
When I was a kid I wanted to learn Chinese. I figured it's the most populous country on the planet (couldn't have known then that it would become such an economic powerhouse though!). What finally stopped me was finding out that there was no such language. I started trying to learn Cantonese, then I found out about Mandarin, and I gave up. I don't have time to learn those two let alone Orange, Lemon and Banana Chinese. And I'm not sure I even have the right biology to speak Formal Nectarine.
There's been talk that Starcraft II would not support LAN. The reason I am a fan of Starcraft and want to buy Starcraft II is I spent many many hours playing it in LAN cafes. People will be doing LAN with pirated version anyway, they'll just run their own battle.net server locally and the only thing you'll achieve is piss off other consummers with a crippled product. Why oh why?
It's not crippled, you douche. It just doesn't have LAN-only play - when was the last time you were at a LAN with no internet access? I'm betting some time around 1999.