"Learned" and "intuitive" don't really seem mutually exclusive in a case like this. You do have to notice that one of these is about two of these, but doing so doesn't necessarily require somebody's help. It is communication about numbers that is cultural, not understanding them.
It is NOT gaming in general. Gaming as a hobby, especially with a focus on challenge, encourages isolation, which is the kiss of death for mental health. The fact that a person is more powerful in games than the world isn't helpful either. At best it causes one to look behind the curtain too much; more commonly it simply generates a psychological dependence on escapism.
I'm using a bunch of "psychobabble" here, but I should be clear: my years of experience are not in practice and study of the field. This happened to me, and I've known several others who got it worse. To be even clearer, I'm not saying that games are bad for you. In my best health, I enjoy them much more, in fact. Having a life in balance allows me to take on games that require more effort and which are deeper as works of art. But they are not good medicine unless they're made that way.
A further insight as a sort of... tenured mental patient: if the game teaches people to "replace thoughts," it's teaching Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. While that method has seen some success, it's mainly because most cases of depression frankly deal with first world problems that people need to bootstrap themselves out of. People with physiologically-rooted cases, those who have experienced severe trauma, and those who see the man behind the curtain will see better long-term gains from a newer approach: Acceptance and Committment Therapy. Luckily, there's already a game for that! A significant portion of ACT is the practice of mindfulness and meditation. Bejeweled 3's meditation mode is surprisingly effective for a silly gimmick.:p
Yeah, but if one of the imaginary kids doesn't want to sing because his imaginary family isn't part of the First Imaginary Church of queBurro, does he get spanked and sent to the imaginary corner?
When I first read the bit about what the planets are doing, my immediate thought was "mining." That's not the interesting part, just a thought I had.
The interesting part: what if I was right, and we carried right on with attempting to jam this observation into our understanding of the universe? What if we saw lots of mining ops, or beacons? (Seems to me they'd be indistinguishable from wacky pulsars unless they were doing some silly "trying to make first contact" trick.) What if we wound up with all manner of complex theories about how things behave in deep space that seem to have nothing to do with the real world? What if we got stuck here because of it?
It feels like something one of the old-school hard-SF authors would've done a short story about at some point. Any recommendations?
They don't need to be concerned with their backyard. They're doing this right at the border during dust season. This basically comstitutes a major attack on South Korea and Japan.
It's neither of those, because it's not a review. It is pressing a button that says "for reasons I don't care to elaborate on, I think you should try this." Hardly a lie in that situation.
I'd be leery of anyone saying they can offer privacy on the internet. The companies that own the internet, dure to being legally designated as those who would build it, don't want you to have it. Therefore, it doesn't exist.
Anybody who knows enough about the infrastructure to be able to plausibly offer an alternative service knows this, and is therefore in it for the money in a much worse way than usual. They WILL collect data, because they have to, or they will be harrassed outbof business by the government. Somebody promising secrecy in that context is really just inviting the customer to do things the government doesn't like. They're collecting blackmail material.
Almost all of that was true. The worst that could be said about most of it is [citation needed.] The main problems I saw were that he didn't clarify who he was talking about in number two, and he's wrong about military weapons being unavailable for purchase by civilians unless you're in one of the states where getting ANY gun is an asspain. (And he was exactly right about the games they play with that.)
So he's taking a good, simple idea, and wrapping it in several chapters of self-important buzzword twattery?
To his credit, that will make it feel more relevant to most American readers, I suppose. If you want Americans to consider a diet, write the instructions on a waffle.
That would be if you were expected to fake a bunch of actual reviews. Of course you "like" it. It buys you food. Employees have always been expected to stand behind their company's work in at least a "well, it's ours" kind of way.
Naw, this system has some pretty terrible issues, and if some random Chinese people could see them despite what's wrong with their system, I'd consider that pretty damning.
"Killing" the console with these particular problems would really just mean their market shrinks to its natural size, as opposed to the current state in which more people want in because of artificially low console prices.
Net effect: PC gaming no longer screwed up by megacorps chasing fratfucks and other casuals. Players having higher barrier to entry causes more devs to consider risk taking, returning artistic credibility to the medium. Bobby Kotick switches to making staplers. The Mona Lisa takes her top off, and everybody gets a free husky puppy.
Under no circumstances should anything the TSA responds to ever actually appear threatening to a reasonable person. This flies in the face of everything I know about that organization. Where were the real police who should've been dealing with this?
If Americans were doing more of that instead of begging the government to take our guns, the nation might stop being a fucked-to-death pile of burning shit.
It's a Le Pan, their older model. (They only have two.) The hardware is a bit dated, but the thing does exactly what I need it to. Given that I got it shortly before becoming homeless, it's literally saved my life by allowing me to esearch schedules, resources, and bureaucracy at will. I miss my Real Computer, but this datapad has proven worth three times its weight in gold, in a form factor that is much more convenient and appealing to me than either a laptop or a smartphone.
When he first spoke of how air passengers use their phones to escape the confines of the cabin, I thought he might be saying that we need to remember just how hellish an airliner is, so we'll be encouraged to give the industry more hell about it.
Nope, too chickenshit. Just navelgazing that he swears isn't luddism.:/
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"Learned" and "intuitive" don't really seem mutually exclusive in a case like this. You do have to notice that one of these is about two of these, but doing so doesn't necessarily require somebody's help. It is communication about numbers that is cultural, not understanding them.
It is NOT gaming in general. Gaming as a hobby, especially with a focus on challenge, encourages isolation, which is the kiss of death for mental health. The fact that a person is more powerful in games than the world isn't helpful either. At best it causes one to look behind the curtain too much; more commonly it simply generates a psychological dependence on escapism.
:p
I'm using a bunch of "psychobabble" here, but I should be clear: my years of experience are not in practice and study of the field. This happened to me, and I've known several others who got it worse. To be even clearer, I'm not saying that games are bad for you. In my best health, I enjoy them much more, in fact. Having a life in balance allows me to take on games that require more effort and which are deeper as works of art. But they are not good medicine unless they're made that way.
A further insight as a sort of... tenured mental patient: if the game teaches people to "replace thoughts," it's teaching Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. While that method has seen some success, it's mainly because most cases of depression frankly deal with first world problems that people need to bootstrap themselves out of. People with physiologically-rooted cases, those who have experienced severe trauma, and those who see the man behind the curtain will see better long-term gains from a newer approach: Acceptance and Committment Therapy. Luckily, there's already a game for that! A significant portion of ACT is the practice of mindfulness and meditation. Bejeweled 3's meditation mode is surprisingly effective for a silly gimmick.
Yeah, but if one of the imaginary kids doesn't want to sing because his imaginary family isn't part of the First Imaginary Church of queBurro, does he get spanked and sent to the imaginary corner?
Crab BIOS!!!
Acting like fratfucks? How is that pushing women out? Wouldn't it be more that women are repulsed by them? Haven't programmers always done that?
When I first read the bit about what the planets are doing, my immediate thought was "mining." That's not the interesting part, just a thought I had.
The interesting part: what if I was right, and we carried right on with attempting to jam this observation into our understanding of the universe? What if we saw lots of mining ops, or beacons? (Seems to me they'd be indistinguishable from wacky pulsars unless they were doing some silly "trying to make first contact" trick.) What if we wound up with all manner of complex theories about how things behave in deep space that seem to have nothing to do with the real world? What if we got stuck here because of it?
It feels like something one of the old-school hard-SF authors would've done a short story about at some point. Any recommendations?
They don't need to be concerned with their backyard. They're doing this right at the border during dust season. This basically comstitutes a major attack on South Korea and Japan.
You found WHAT playing scientist? You tell Jimmy and the rest of those kids to get the hell out of my basement right now!
"The digital currency will be anonymous..."
What a depressingly boring example of the One Big Lie technique. Don't they know they're supposed to blame a minority for something?
It's neither of those, because it's not a review. It is pressing a button that says "for reasons I don't care to elaborate on, I think you should try this." Hardly a lie in that situation.
Then he gets arrested for obstruction of justice.
I'd be leery of anyone saying they can offer privacy on the internet. The companies that own the internet, dure to being legally designated as those who would build it, don't want you to have it. Therefore, it doesn't exist.
Anybody who knows enough about the infrastructure to be able to plausibly offer an alternative service knows this, and is therefore in it for the money in a much worse way than usual. They WILL collect data, because they have to, or they will be harrassed outbof business by the government. Somebody promising secrecy in that context is really just inviting the customer to do things the government doesn't like. They're collecting blackmail material.
Almost all of that was true. The worst that could be said about most of it is [citation needed.] The main problems I saw were that he didn't clarify who he was talking about in number two, and he's wrong about military weapons being unavailable for purchase by civilians unless you're in one of the states where getting ANY gun is an asspain. (And he was exactly right about the games they play with that.)
So he's taking a good, simple idea, and wrapping it in several chapters of self-important buzzword twattery?
To his credit, that will make it feel more relevant to most American readers, I suppose. If you want Americans to consider a diet, write the instructions on a waffle.
That would be if you were expected to fake a bunch of actual reviews. Of course you "like" it. It buys you food. Employees have always been expected to stand behind their company's work in at least a "well, it's ours" kind of way.
I want to start shooting feds NOW. Can't we use oil faster or something? :/
Naw, this system has some pretty terrible issues, and if some random Chinese people could see them despite what's wrong with their system, I'd consider that pretty damning.
How do you say "pool's closed" in Mandarin?
You don't think it might be time to stop treating this as a strict liability crime, do you? That'd be just awful!
"Killing" the console with these particular problems would really just mean their market shrinks to its natural size, as opposed to the current state in which more people want in because of artificially low console prices.
Net effect: PC gaming no longer screwed up by megacorps chasing fratfucks and other casuals. Players having higher barrier to entry causes more devs to consider risk taking, returning artistic credibility to the medium. Bobby Kotick switches to making staplers. The Mona Lisa takes her top off, and everybody gets a free husky puppy.
Bring that shit.
Under no circumstances should anything the TSA responds to ever actually appear threatening to a reasonable person. This flies in the face of everything I know about that organization. Where were the real police who should've been dealing with this?
If Americans were doing more of that instead of begging the government to take our guns, the nation might stop being a fucked-to-death pile of burning shit.
It's a Le Pan, their older model. (They only have two.) The hardware is a bit dated, but the thing does exactly what I need it to. Given that I got it shortly before becoming homeless, it's literally saved my life by allowing me to esearch schedules, resources, and bureaucracy at will. I miss my Real Computer, but this datapad has proven worth three times its weight in gold, in a form factor that is much more convenient and appealing to me than either a laptop or a smartphone.
The droidpad I'm posting this from cost $200.
When he first spoke of how air passengers use their phones to escape the confines of the cabin, I thought he might be saying that we need to remember just how hellish an airliner is, so we'll be encouraged to give the industry more hell about it.
:/
Nope, too chickenshit. Just navelgazing that he swears isn't luddism.
If he can get it to NOT hose chipmunks, he could sell it to the Army.