I watched the various games rules explanation in the hotel tv and laughed at the atrocious stupidity one must suffer to even consider playing with the objective of winning money.
During the small part of my honeymoon I was there, I spent the considerable quantity of 0$ in games. However I did spend several hundreds of your cheap (at that point) bucks in fantastic shows.
I plan on going back soon (EUR-USD parity willing). I know I won't play a single chip and I know I'll still have a wonderful time with the shows.
About the whores. They are, by a large margin, better this side of the pond. Not that I'd even consider one, taking into account they give even worse odds than a casino.
can they make me a man-sized invisible hamsterball? Invisible zorbing would be an interesting experience.
Actually it would be a black hamsterball.
And if that's the objective for 2009, it's quite easier to achieve by simply painting it black. Anyway, you'll just end up with a pretty pissed off hamster.
"...And so, the development of karmon storage marks the end of the Just Age; where consequences always hit the originator of the action. i.e.: The karmiker and the karmiked where always one and the same."
"Mr. Johnson. What were khores paid for, then?"
"As you may know, the term "khore" comes from "karma whore". At that time, they were called just "whores" and they were paid in exchange for sexual favours."
I have strong feeling on this topic. Pity I had a specially loaded day and didn't see the thread earlier. Anyway, to the point.
I get fun from certain games by beating them. I don't want a balanced threat, a "more fun" difficulty or however you justify changing the opposition to match the player.
If I want to play in a harder mode, to try to beat it too, I'm perfectly able to change the mode by myself. However, if I'm in the middle of discovering the perfect evolution algorithm that makes my character vaporise his enemies by dealing a damage orders of magnitude over their hps, and then the games decides I need different enemies to "have fun", I usually delete the game and sell it.
Oblivion is a special case. The evolving threat algorithm itself could be beaten. The optimal character never advanced a single lvl, to avoid triggering the algorithm. In that case, a player who enjoys games my way, plays for some hours, "solves" the game and quickly finds that playing a classic action RPG without advancing levels, is quite boring, as there's no progressive evolution to also "solve".
You clearly aren't prepared to think in a future frame of reference.
That's the consequence of studying with equipment that existed at the moment you were working with it.
Future generations won't have that problem, as they're already studying with equipment that will be paid for and released to the university several years after their graduation.
The only question remaining is: Why isn't it being done already? If I were a poor African state, (preferably with a desert) I'd put a big plant into that desert, and tell the oil and other industries, that they can go fuck themselves, because now I'm free! ^^ Then I'd start exporting energy and technology.
Actually, you'd probably start importing bombs. By the "air delivery" method. And then, soldiers. And then you'd switch to a more free and democratically elected governor, who would sensibly go back to oil and coal.
And, to really mess with the ratings board, the mod should include options to:
- Transform zombies into live people. - Spawn zombies only from any one particular race. - Spawn only female zombies. - Spawn only child zombies. - Remove zombie clothing. - Apply many of the previous simultaneously.
I agree. I do online banking and my bank's emails are pretty sterile. I have to pay close attention to keep from tossing them. On the other hand, they do NOT include clickable links, and they do have a multi-step logon that shows me a picture and an associated phrase (that I picked) that I'm expecting to see.
I'd join your bank just for that, but you leave an obvious question unanswered:
Do consecutive pictures, in consecutive mails, include progressively less clothing?
Just present examples of the exact same ISP letting people buy anything illegal by mail.
In a movie court, the handsome and manly lawyer would open a portable in front of the judge, connect to a "illegal dvd sale by postal mail" and order 100.000 movies.
Cans of Worms have lids for a reason. Mostly because opening the can is a violation of the EULA, voids your warranty and forces you to rely on downloading 3rd party patches
You probably broke the can of worms while trying to install unauthorized worms.
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Great shows.
I watched the various games rules explanation in the hotel tv and laughed at the atrocious stupidity one must suffer to even consider playing with the objective of winning money.
During the small part of my honeymoon I was there, I spent the considerable quantity of 0$ in games. However I did spend several hundreds of your cheap (at that point) bucks in fantastic shows.
I plan on going back soon (EUR-USD parity willing). I know I won't play a single chip and I know I'll still have a wonderful time with the shows.
About the whores. They are, by a large margin, better this side of the pond. Not that I'd even consider one, taking into account they give even worse odds than a casino.
"It's a black hole in the same way my bedroom is when I shut the door." - Azathoth. 0-2009
can they make me a man-sized invisible hamsterball? Invisible zorbing would be an interesting experience.
Actually it would be a black hamsterball.
And if that's the objective for 2009, it's quite easier to achieve by simply painting it black. Anyway, you'll just end up with a pretty pissed off hamster.
"Welcome to the presentation of our next project, The Nightbringer."
Being almost killed is no fun BTW.
It depends.
You know those senators who die sexing a female of distracted morals? I'd bet almost dying's pretty ok in that situation.
"A high-voltage nitrogen jet is not compatible with the human body," says Takáts.
Well, I'm glad we've gotten past those experiments.
Indeed. You got here just in time for our next experiment.
We'll perform this simple apendectomy. WITH A CHAINSAW!
"...And so, the development of karmon storage marks the end of the Just Age; where consequences always hit the originator of the action. i.e.: The karmiker and the karmiked where always one and the same."
"Mr. Johnson. What were khores paid for, then?"
"As you may know, the term "khore" comes from "karma whore". At that time, they were called just "whores" and they were paid in exchange for sexual favours."
"Like computers?"
"Yes, Jimmy. Exactly like computers."
the genie is out of the bottle, information wants to be free, that sort of thing.
Do you got to rub it the right way
if you wanna be with it?
I have strong feeling on this topic. Pity I had a specially loaded day and didn't see the thread earlier. Anyway, to the point.
I get fun from certain games by beating them. I don't want a balanced threat, a "more fun" difficulty or however you justify changing the opposition to match the player.
If I want to play in a harder mode, to try to beat it too, I'm perfectly able to change the mode by myself. However, if I'm in the middle of discovering the perfect evolution algorithm that makes my character vaporise his enemies by dealing a damage orders of magnitude over their hps, and then the games decides I need different enemies to "have fun", I usually delete the game and sell it.
Oblivion is a special case. The evolving threat algorithm itself could be beaten. The optimal character never advanced a single lvl, to avoid triggering the algorithm. In that case, a player who enjoys games my way, plays for some hours, "solves" the game and quickly finds that playing a classic action RPG without advancing levels, is quite boring, as there's no progressive evolution to also "solve".
I for one would pay to see fifty sims battling a gargantuan chromatic dragon, with epic furniture.
You clearly aren't prepared to think in a future frame of reference.
That's the consequence of studying with equipment that existed at the moment you were working with it.
Future generations won't have that problem, as they're already studying with equipment that will be paid for and released to the university several years after their graduation.
Whoever the executive was that pioneered this (at the cost of delaying SC2) is getting a phat performance bonus next year
Dear Mr. Hadlock
In the future, please refrain from requesting performance bonuses on public forums.
M.Morhaime.
P.S.: Your bonus will be based on your Arena ranking, as every other director's.
The only question remaining is: Why isn't it being done already? If I were a poor African state, (preferably with a desert) I'd put a big plant into that desert, and tell the oil and other industries, that they can go fuck themselves, because now I'm free! ^^
Then I'd start exporting energy and technology.
Actually, you'd probably start importing bombs. By the "air delivery" method. And then, soldiers. And then you'd switch to a more free and democratically elected governor, who would sensibly go back to oil and coal.
And, to really mess with the ratings board, the mod should include options to:
- Transform zombies into live people.
- Spawn zombies only from any one particular race.
- Spawn only female zombies.
- Spawn only child zombies.
- Remove zombie clothing.
- Apply many of the previous simultaneously.
"sometimes some of us really do just want to see something get blown to hell in a massive spray of meaty kibbles."
Max A. Trition - Commander in chief.
"L4d2 in Australia now significantly less entertaining."
Actually, I think the other words are actually:
"Dear non-australian customer:
Regretfully, in australia, our game is not as FRICKING EPIC! as everywhere else.
We're sure you'll join us in the release of a single tear for their sad situation."
Nice story.
This "blood" thing you speak about is from a previous novel? You may want to re-explain it for people who start reading at this point.
Also, the ending is too predictable. Unless, in a wild twist, the defendent doesn't get praised for what looks like a perfect headshot.
"g1ve me urz PW and I'll givez you 1,000,000 gamerscores!!"
My pw is 12345!!!
Thank you for the gamescore!!!!!
I agree. I do online banking and my bank's emails are pretty sterile. I have to pay close attention to keep from tossing them. On the other hand, they do NOT include clickable links, and they do have a multi-step logon that shows me a picture and an associated phrase (that I picked) that I'm expecting to see.
I'd join your bank just for that, but you leave an obvious question unanswered:
Do consecutive pictures, in consecutive mails, include progressively less clothing?
Why go to BT and phones?
Just present examples of the exact same ISP letting people buy anything illegal by mail.
In a movie court, the handsome and manly lawyer would open a portable in front of the judge, connect to a "illegal dvd sale by postal mail" and order 100.000 movies.
Cans of Worms have lids for a reason. Mostly because opening the can is a violation of the EULA, voids your warranty and forces you to rely on downloading 3rd party patches
You probably broke the can of worms while trying to install unauthorized worms.
No, they still mean you can achieve victory by a large margin over the movie, on DVD.
What's still unclear is the game you and the movie are expected to play, but I think it's one that involves paying large amounts of money.
Because, as we all know, the execs at AT&T and other companies are the ones who determine the receptors of Nobel prizes.
Or the heat from burning 2 library's on congress.
Do libraries burn differently on congress than anywhere else?
While this is really cool if correct, one needs to understand that this isn't by any means a slam dunk.
Well, it does come quite close to being a "slam dunk".