It's really funny though. If you make a joke about the mean, bad, imperialist pigdog Americans you get a +5 Funny - but woe on those who dare to play jokes on other racial or cultural stereotypes...
And my pipe dream is to be able to play a game like Halo and not get hit on or screamed at because I'm a girl on voice chat.
Simple solution: play on the "right" servers. If you play Public, you *will* get drama, whether you are a guy or a gal ("lolnub, stop nadespamming, nades take no skill ONOZ ONOZ"/"ohai, u a gurl? rly? add me plz") although it is fair to say that the drama males get is a little bit easier to deal with.
I play online on both public and community/clan servers. I've seen girls playing on both, but they only got drama on the former; on the latter, the worst a girl I occasionally play with got was some jokes in L4D (to which everybody who plays the female character is subjected to every now and then anyways). Just look around a bit and find a nice community emphasizing teamplay and maturity; I've found TacticalGamer (which mainly focuses on Source games and the Battlefield series), and I'm certain there are similar communities for Halo ([/shamelessadvertising], I know, but TG is really a good example for a gaming community promoting teamwork and having fun together over "being first" and causing drama).
I don't know. Compare a StarCraft pro with your average goldfarmer. Yes, both spend a metric fsckton of time with their respective games and both make a living playing them - but that's where the similarities end. A gold farmer just logs in and, well, farms gold, doing the same repetitive idiocy over and over again. The SC pro, on the other hand, actively seeks to advance his skills, spends his time on getting better at the game and finding new ways to beat his equally skilled colleagues. I'd only call one of that a true "gamer".
Books contain some pretty graphic descriptions of scenes without showing them, and they're just as emotive.
Bad analogy. The book still gives you an image of said scene, just in a different way - the text equivalent to L4D2's censorship would be taking out every sentence describing the corpse from a murder mystery novel.
It's not like they turned the zombies into marionettes and had the words "YOU ARE NOT SHOOTING REAL PEOPLE." emblazoned across the screen.
Having played the uncensored and seen the censored version - that's pretty much how it looks like though. Heck, they even removed one Special Infected from the game because he was clad in riot gear, and eviscerating something looking alike a police officer (he wasn't even one, but an agent of CEDA, the company that made the virus turning everybody into mindless zeds, meh) is evil(tm).
This is a Zombie game we're talking about here. It's sole point is surviving and killing zombies in hilarious ways. Some people might not get it, but others may find large amounts of comical violence pretty amusing, and removing said violence from the game utterly destroys it's atmosphere, makes it less fun and treats adults like little kids.
Also, even *if* music has a distracting effect on you - chances are that if you plug your ears and listen to music you'll be less distracted than not plugging your ears and listening to much less comfortable, ever-present background noise.
Because Google will give your search history to every two-bit company director out there. Sure, they may not withhold information from the feds (be that a good or bad thing) but as long as they don't publish my search history publicly (not that I actually have anything to hide apart from a few torrent searches) I really could care less.
"Parenting" does not necessarily mean "control", and when I said "unsupervised" I wasn't advocating total parent control of kid's net access either - I fully agree that from a certain age on, kids shouldn't have their parents following them on every step they take. That should not stop their parents from regularly talking to their kids about what they do and who they meet on the Internet though.
They don't do it because both the US and the UK (the only states who'd have the balls to consider something like that) have (largely) cut bilateral diplomatic relationships with Iran, and neither operate an embassy in said dictatorship, and Iran does not operate embassies in the US or the UK.
Of course, the best solution would still be parents actually doing their job - parenting their kids instead of placing them in front of nanny PC unsupervised and training them in the fine art of bullshit detection. But that's way too much of a hassle...
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It's really funny though. If you make a joke about the mean, bad, imperialist pigdog Americans you get a +5 Funny - but woe on those who dare to play jokes on other racial or cultural stereotypes...
And my pipe dream is to be able to play a game like Halo and not get hit on or screamed at because I'm a girl on voice chat.
Simple solution: play on the "right" servers. If you play Public, you *will* get drama, whether you are a guy or a gal ("lolnub, stop nadespamming, nades take no skill ONOZ ONOZ"/"ohai, u a gurl? rly? add me plz") although it is fair to say that the drama males get is a little bit easier to deal with.
I play online on both public and community/clan servers. I've seen girls playing on both, but they only got drama on the former; on the latter, the worst a girl I occasionally play with got was some jokes in L4D (to which everybody who plays the female character is subjected to every now and then anyways). Just look around a bit and find a nice community emphasizing teamplay and maturity; I've found TacticalGamer (which mainly focuses on Source games and the Battlefield series), and I'm certain there are similar communities for Halo ([/shamelessadvertising], I know, but TG is really a good example for a gaming community promoting teamwork and having fun together over "being first" and causing drama).
I don't know. Compare a StarCraft pro with your average goldfarmer. Yes, both spend a metric fsckton of time with their respective games and both make a living playing them - but that's where the similarities end. A gold farmer just logs in and, well, farms gold, doing the same repetitive idiocy over and over again. The SC pro, on the other hand, actively seeks to advance his skills, spends his time on getting better at the game and finding new ways to beat his equally skilled colleagues. I'd only call one of that a true "gamer".
Hate speech?
I think you'd fit in with the 4chan crowd pretty nicely :P .
A corrupt mafia-run government wants to outlaw gambling? Well, duh, BIG SURPRISE.
Books contain some pretty graphic descriptions of scenes without showing them, and they're just as emotive.
Bad analogy. The book still gives you an image of said scene, just in a different way - the text equivalent to L4D2's censorship would be taking out every sentence describing the corpse from a murder mystery novel.
It's not like they turned the zombies into marionettes and had the words "YOU ARE NOT SHOOTING REAL PEOPLE." emblazoned across the screen.
Having played the uncensored and seen the censored version - that's pretty much how it looks like though. Heck, they even removed one Special Infected from the game because he was clad in riot gear, and eviscerating something looking alike a police officer (he wasn't even one, but an agent of CEDA, the company that made the virus turning everybody into mindless zeds, meh) is evil(tm).
This is a Zombie game we're talking about here. It's sole point is surviving and killing zombies in hilarious ways. Some people might not get it, but others may find large amounts of comical violence pretty amusing, and removing said violence from the game utterly destroys it's atmosphere, makes it less fun and treats adults like little kids.
Too bad that the Americans would be the only ones capable of saving your sorry ass should we actually be threatened by an asteroid en route to Earth.
Australia?
Because only completely useless stuff goes into Idle and this is at least mildly amusing.
I suppose there's a reason why she became your ex.
Citation please.
Also, even *if* music has a distracting effect on you - chances are that if you plug your ears and listen to music you'll be less distracted than not plugging your ears and listening to much less comfortable, ever-present background noise.
This post being modded Insightful instead of Funny can teach us a *lot* about Slashdot users :P .
Sounds a lot like glorified real-life Paint to me.
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You've already answered your own question. Writing a proper AI is damn hard.
Because Google will give your search history to every two-bit company director out there. Sure, they may not withhold information from the feds (be that a good or bad thing) but as long as they don't publish my search history publicly (not that I actually have anything to hide apart from a few torrent searches) I really could care less.
Well, he *is* posting on Slashdot...
They didn't listen to the userbase when they pushed through their abhorrent new UI though. Hm.
To be fair though, Blizzard cooperated a lot with Games Workshop iirc. GW even did some concept art for them.
Ah, thank you for correcting me then. I could swear they had none a while ago though...
I think somebody's sarcasm detector is broken...
Because meta-moderation has shifted away from moderating moderation, instead being about promoting or demoting unmoderated posts.
"Parenting" does not necessarily mean "control", and when I said "unsupervised" I wasn't advocating total parent control of kid's net access either - I fully agree that from a certain age on, kids shouldn't have their parents following them on every step they take. That should not stop their parents from regularly talking to their kids about what they do and who they meet on the Internet though.
They don't do it because both the US and the UK (the only states who'd have the balls to consider something like that) have (largely) cut bilateral diplomatic relationships with Iran, and neither operate an embassy in said dictatorship, and Iran does not operate embassies in the US or the UK.
Of course, the best solution would still be parents actually doing their job - parenting their kids instead of placing them in front of nanny PC unsupervised and training them in the fine art of bullshit detection. But that's way too much of a hassle...