I agree completely. I eat very well, and cheaply, as a vegetarian. All of my food is home-cooked and a large majority of it is even home-grown. I wouldn't be able to afford eating out two or three times a day because of the ridiculous price of processed foods. People aren't cheap, they're just lazy. Not being able to sit down and eat a proper meal with your family also says a lot about our culture in and of itself.
That would only further remove survival of the fittest from this equation. I'd be much more interested to see people actually have to provide for themselves. My guess is that at least half of the world's population would simply curl up and die without public water and prepackaged meat.
Would it really be better? The world is already over populated and resources will only become rarer as time goes on. Humanity needs a new natural predator or plague.
Your "example" only further points out how little "harm" she did. All of the harm was done by this little girl's own hand. Telling someone to do something is not you doing it to them. If they do happen to proceed, then it is only their fault. In the end, the world probably is actually better without such people.
I remember going through the Great MegaBlocks Purge as a child. My brother and I had each received a fairly neat looking set for the holidays, but were quickly disappointed with not only the quality of the plastic, but the inability of the block to properly fit with Legos, let alone themselves. Our parents contacted MegaBlocks with these concerns and they made it up to us by sending us a ton more of their product. Well, eventually my brother and I decided to go through our tubs and tubs of blocks and sort out all of the MegaBlocks so as to be cast aside. There was much rejoicing in Lego Land.
Macs do not posses optimized, rock solid hardware. Such stability is simply the result of having a very limited set of hardware configurations to program for. I can almost guarantee you that Windows would also be super stable if you could only use it on one kind of setup.
True, most people do have internet access. However, an absolutely huge amount have no available high speed access. Furthermore, consumer grade broadband is going to be bogged down fairly quickly once you have three or four people logged into Battle.net and playing online from the same router simply because Blizzard wanted to enforce some bullshit DRM and stripped LAN play out of their product.
If my friends and I are all in the same room playing a videogame, there is absolutely no reason we should have to be on the internet to do so. That's what my LAN is for. This, much like Steam, only takes it a step further and absolutely kills the possibility of playing with the wife and kids. There's no way I'm going to buy four copies of this game just to install and play it on and amongst my various home computers. What ever happened to spawn installs? Blizzard used to be pretty big on that, as I recall.
Battle.net is fine and dandy, but the real fun of Diablo and Diablo II was always playing with friends and family in a smaller, more casual setting.
The issue of security is bullshit. This is little more than a thinly veiled attempt to make sure that everyone purchases a copy of the game. It's almost as bad as Steam in not allowing you a home license to play with the kids!
Last time I watched a few friends play Guitar Hero it was very much about sitting on their butts and clicking buttons in sync with little colored discs on screen. It's essentially Dance Dance Revolution for the lazy.
Besides, two copies of a $40 game without single-screen multiplayer are more expensive than one copy of a $60 game that includes it.
This has only ever been a problem with Steam games. Unfortunately, family-oriented LAN play is almost impossible byway of Valve's idiotic DRM.
Diablo shouldn't have to split anything if both players' characters stick within a few meters of each other. Secret of Mana didn't.
No. Just no. The Playstation version of the first Dialbo forced you to stick together and it was horrid. Not being able to go off on your on severely gimps everyone.
It sounds to me as if you just need to buy a console, dude.
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I agree completely. I eat very well, and cheaply, as a vegetarian. All of my food is home-cooked and a large majority of it is even home-grown. I wouldn't be able to afford eating out two or three times a day because of the ridiculous price of processed foods. People aren't cheap, they're just lazy. Not being able to sit down and eat a proper meal with your family also says a lot about our culture in and of itself.
That would only further remove survival of the fittest from this equation. I'd be much more interested to see people actually have to provide for themselves. My guess is that at least half of the world's population would simply curl up and die without public water and prepackaged meat.
Molestation involves touching, which is direct contact. It's not exactly as if people force themselves upon molesters.
On the other hand, simply telling someone to go out and be molested isn't as problematic as the idiot that takes your "advice".
Would it really be better? The world is already over populated and resources will only become rarer as time goes on. Humanity needs a new natural predator or plague.
Your "example" only further points out how little "harm" she did. All of the harm was done by this little girl's own hand. Telling someone to do something is not you doing it to them. If they do happen to proceed, then it is only their fault. In the end, the world probably is actually better without such people.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
--"The Tower of the Elephant", Robert E. Howard
To truly know, you must ask a follow-up question; trekkie or trekker?
I remember going through the Great MegaBlocks Purge as a child. My brother and I had each received a fairly neat looking set for the holidays, but were quickly disappointed with not only the quality of the plastic, but the inability of the block to properly fit with Legos, let alone themselves. Our parents contacted MegaBlocks with these concerns and they made it up to us by sending us a ton more of their product. Well, eventually my brother and I decided to go through our tubs and tubs of blocks and sort out all of the MegaBlocks so as to be cast aside. There was much rejoicing in Lego Land.
http://www.guitarrising.com/
GTA3 [i]wasn't[/i] very good though, and that was largely due to the ninety degree turn in presentation (both graphically and gameplay wise).
Macs do not posses optimized, rock solid hardware. Such stability is simply the result of having a very limited set of hardware configurations to program for. I can almost guarantee you that Windows would also be super stable if you could only use it on one kind of setup.
What?! I thought that the next Nintendo console would be the wII. Haha... Roman numerals!
True, most people do have internet access. However, an absolutely huge amount have no available high speed access. Furthermore, consumer grade broadband is going to be bogged down fairly quickly once you have three or four people logged into Battle.net and playing online from the same router simply because Blizzard wanted to enforce some bullshit DRM and stripped LAN play out of their product.
If my friends and I are all in the same room playing a videogame, there is absolutely no reason we should have to be on the internet to do so. That's what my LAN is for. This, much like Steam, only takes it a step further and absolutely kills the possibility of playing with the wife and kids. There's no way I'm going to buy four copies of this game just to install and play it on and amongst my various home computers. What ever happened to spawn installs? Blizzard used to be pretty big on that, as I recall.
They know damn well that the internet is just a series of tubes!
You're absolutely correct, even if it does seem that you're being sarcastic.
Ditto.
Battle.net is fine and dandy, but the real fun of Diablo and Diablo II was always playing with friends and family in a smaller, more casual setting.
The issue of security is bullshit. This is little more than a thinly veiled attempt to make sure that everyone purchases a copy of the game. It's almost as bad as Steam in not allowing you a home license to play with the kids!
Sounds like the same argument people use for karaoke.
Last time I watched a few friends play Guitar Hero it was very much about sitting on their butts and clicking buttons in sync with little colored discs on screen. It's essentially Dance Dance Revolution for the lazy.
Rolling Stones, Paul McArtney, The Who
I'm not so sure that's a good argument against the labels. Those are, after all, great bands.
Isn't goatse porn?
How about selling new games for $20? Maybe people would be more willing to take chances and purchase games that aren't mega-hit sequels then.
They should have updated that film in a way that made it not suck instead...
Funny you should mention that. I've never seen an ad on any of my DVDs. That's what CloneDVD/AnyDVD is for. ;)
Besides, two copies of a $40 game without single-screen multiplayer are more expensive than one copy of a $60 game that includes it.
This has only ever been a problem with Steam games. Unfortunately, family-oriented LAN play is almost impossible byway of Valve's idiotic DRM.
Diablo shouldn't have to split anything if both players' characters stick within a few meters of each other. Secret of Mana didn't.
No. Just no. The Playstation version of the first Dialbo forced you to stick together and it was horrid. Not being able to go off on your on severely gimps everyone.
It sounds to me as if you just need to buy a console, dude.