You want Q A and Z to have the same up/down orientation. (if you put the fat ends together you get too much border crossing). You could also interlock the teeth but keep them far apart, that would allow you to have more space and pull the user towards the target.
I found that even very small areas users will get very close to if that's the size you make the button. Better to make a button a few pixels smaller with a border that still clicks IMO.
Conservative, liberal, they're just words. In every way shape and form both Conservative and liberal should represent different tax policies than they actually do. Liberals should be the low tax platform, conservatives should be the balanced budget platform. But the words in politics get used in weird ways. It's just a label, don't try to get too intellectual about it or you might as well refuse to talk about politics unless it's in klingon.
Democrats on capitol hill don't have any balls. It's really kinda annoying. Time and time again they give in to Republican filibusters and fail to hold up their own. WTF?
Almost all liberal voters I know favor some level of legalization of both drugs and sex. The politicians won't pick up these banners though. Not because they hate drugs and sex, but because they're afraid of it. Someone (maybe Obama himself, doesn't really matter) put up a site where he solicited suggestions from the internet. The popular suggestions where then presented to Obama. He laughed at the legalization of marijuana question.
The guy has smoked the stuff before and by and large the democrat voting base doesn't care about keeping it illegal. He didn't laugh it off because he thinks it's a bad idea, he laughed it off because it would have ended his career to take on that fight.
The liberals only 'pander' to the religious fanatics as much as they're afraid to take them on. The conservatives are the ones actually pander to the religious fanatics (pro-life, anti-science, etc).
You just need to kick it in the ass regardless of what it is. What's the difference between wanting to go back because you want to go back and wanting to go back because of a chemical reaction? All of our feelings and thoughts are chemical reactions. In some ways I see the MMO as the more insidious addiction because it's easier for the addict to deny it. Sure it's harder to actually quit an addictive substance, but it's easier to want out.
Mental withdrawal is very real, relapses are a definite threat, and it's absolutely addicting because if you cut your play time down your game suffers (slower loot progression, fewer friends, etc).
You sound like an addict. I'm going to explain why it's addicting, maybe you'll realize it's addicting when I do: Friends.
Make a new character. Level to 6. Make a friend, we'll call them Bob. Bob keeps playing. You want to match Bob's leveling to keep playing with them. Level to 10. Make a friend. Repeat. Repeat. Level to 80. Join a cool raiding guild. You want to spend time with your friends. You want to get more gear so you can do better on the meters on the weekly runs. You need to farm to get gold to do enchants. You want to take some time to get that Argent Tournament Raptor. If you stop, you fall behind. Your guild is relying on your for attendance. Your friends are gearing up. Take 3 months off and you'll need to find a new guild because there will be to many mages when you come back. Damn.
The game is addictive because it's social. When you play almost any console game you play alone. You can put the game down for 4 months come back and you're still in the same place. Because so much of an MMO is building relationships you need to maintain those or you actually go backwards.
Consider if you feel obligated to play to keep in line with gear curves or guild duties.
You sound like an addict. Seriously. That's the exact kind of mentality that gets into your head when you're an addict, and then when you're free you look back at that kind of thing and it just creeps you the fuck out. Many people who have played MMOs heavily were happy when they quit. You might join them, think about it.
I think one of the things that triggered me to quit was the realization that if I spent as much time playing guitar as playing WoW I could be really good. I quit on a whim, but it was a very internal choice. This guy in the original post is way past the level I was at, but a girlfriend isn't going to pull him out (probably). Girlfriends may or may not pull someone out if they're already in an established relationship.
I think I might lean towards 'hacking their account' and getting them banned somehow. Put a key logger on the machine and then send gold spam on their character. The withdrawal while account management settles it might kick them out.
You don't need to hit 'bottom'. You just need to decide to stop. I just quit because it was hurting my wife and I didn't like that (although I never got bad enough to quit my job). The friend in kklein's story hit bottom and STILL didn't quit.
But I do agree with you, there's pretty much nothing you can do. Until the addict decides it's a problem, they're not going to quit. The second they decide it's a problem, they'll get better very fast.
Playing an MMO reduces amount of time you think about sex (you're busy thinking about new loot). You don't really mind not getting as much (speaking from experience).
People trying to make Craigslist into this big bad fraud sex site is getting old. It's about 2% of US internet traffic, no duh it's got a few hookers on it.
There are stupid people in my country who think it's too much work to switch to metric. Could I dedicate a significant amount of time to switching this country to metric? Sure. Would it be a better use of my political energies than fighting for civil rights, sound economic policy, sound environmental policy, or improved political processes? I kinda doubt it. Metric is nice, but honestly I care way more about health care, climate change, or gay marriage to bother lobbying about units of measurement.
Yes, we still do use miles. And my military can beat up your military. I can do country posturing too! So there! (Honestly, I prefer metric, but there are way to many people in this country proud of being dumb to ever hope to switch)
On a more mature topic, do you know the flight distance where unit of mortality per unit of distance is the same for both driving and flying?
I always feel like you should be the norm and I should be the slacker... Instead I'm still above average. I'm bad at math and I'm significantly above average. o_O
I should be someone who had to struggle through school if you ask me, because I'm kinda a lazy dumb dumb. I'm bad at math, terrible with language, and I have a fuzy memory for everything but concepts. The only redeeming quality in my intellect I can find is my analytical skills, but those aren't every tested in school.
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Someone will, yes.
We don't want the NRA on the left, you can have them back.
You want Q A and Z to have the same up/down orientation. (if you put the fat ends together you get too much border crossing). You could also interlock the teeth but keep them far apart, that would allow you to have more space and pull the user towards the target.
I found that even very small areas users will get very close to if that's the size you make the button. Better to make a button a few pixels smaller with a border that still clicks IMO.
Or if his design didn't waste all that precious real estate...
I just swear at computers until they put me through to an operator.
"doubling screen real-estate [consumed]."
Conservative, liberal, they're just words. In every way shape and form both Conservative and liberal should represent different tax policies than they actually do. Liberals should be the low tax platform, conservatives should be the balanced budget platform. But the words in politics get used in weird ways. It's just a label, don't try to get too intellectual about it or you might as well refuse to talk about politics unless it's in klingon.
Democrats on capitol hill don't have any balls. It's really kinda annoying. Time and time again they give in to Republican filibusters and fail to hold up their own. WTF?
Almost all liberal voters I know favor some level of legalization of both drugs and sex. The politicians won't pick up these banners though. Not because they hate drugs and sex, but because they're afraid of it. Someone (maybe Obama himself, doesn't really matter) put up a site where he solicited suggestions from the internet. The popular suggestions where then presented to Obama. He laughed at the legalization of marijuana question.
The guy has smoked the stuff before and by and large the democrat voting base doesn't care about keeping it illegal. He didn't laugh it off because he thinks it's a bad idea, he laughed it off because it would have ended his career to take on that fight.
The liberals only 'pander' to the religious fanatics as much as they're afraid to take them on. The conservatives are the ones actually pander to the religious fanatics (pro-life, anti-science, etc).
You just need to kick it in the ass regardless of what it is. What's the difference between wanting to go back because you want to go back and wanting to go back because of a chemical reaction? All of our feelings and thoughts are chemical reactions. In some ways I see the MMO as the more insidious addiction because it's easier for the addict to deny it. Sure it's harder to actually quit an addictive substance, but it's easier to want out.
Mental withdrawal is very real, relapses are a definite threat, and it's absolutely addicting because if you cut your play time down your game suffers (slower loot progression, fewer friends, etc).
You sound like an addict. I'm going to explain why it's addicting, maybe you'll realize it's addicting when I do: Friends.
Make a new character. Level to 6. Make a friend, we'll call them Bob. Bob keeps playing. You want to match Bob's leveling to keep playing with them. Level to 10. Make a friend. Repeat. Repeat. Level to 80. Join a cool raiding guild. You want to spend time with your friends. You want to get more gear so you can do better on the meters on the weekly runs. You need to farm to get gold to do enchants. You want to take some time to get that Argent Tournament Raptor. If you stop, you fall behind. Your guild is relying on your for attendance. Your friends are gearing up. Take 3 months off and you'll need to find a new guild because there will be to many mages when you come back. Damn.
The game is addictive because it's social. When you play almost any console game you play alone. You can put the game down for 4 months come back and you're still in the same place. Because so much of an MMO is building relationships you need to maintain those or you actually go backwards.
Consider if you feel obligated to play to keep in line with gear curves or guild duties.
You sound like an addict. Seriously. That's the exact kind of mentality that gets into your head when you're an addict, and then when you're free you look back at that kind of thing and it just creeps you the fuck out. Many people who have played MMOs heavily were happy when they quit. You might join them, think about it.
I think one of the things that triggered me to quit was the realization that if I spent as much time playing guitar as playing WoW I could be really good. I quit on a whim, but it was a very internal choice. This guy in the original post is way past the level I was at, but a girlfriend isn't going to pull him out (probably). Girlfriends may or may not pull someone out if they're already in an established relationship.
I think I might lean towards 'hacking their account' and getting them banned somehow. Put a key logger on the machine and then send gold spam on their character. The withdrawal while account management settles it might kick them out.
You don't need to hit 'bottom'. You just need to decide to stop. I just quit because it was hurting my wife and I didn't like that (although I never got bad enough to quit my job). The friend in kklein's story hit bottom and STILL didn't quit.
But I do agree with you, there's pretty much nothing you can do. Until the addict decides it's a problem, they're not going to quit. The second they decide it's a problem, they'll get better very fast.
Playing an MMO reduces amount of time you think about sex (you're busy thinking about new loot). You don't really mind not getting as much (speaking from experience).
The conservatives would destroy any politician who suggested it and the democrats don't want logic enough to fight the conservatives on this battle.
People trying to make Craigslist into this big bad fraud sex site is getting old. It's about 2% of US internet traffic, no duh it's got a few hookers on it.
Um... You can get a Fender Squire for $100.
There are stupid people in my country who think it's too much work to switch to metric. Could I dedicate a significant amount of time to switching this country to metric? Sure. Would it be a better use of my political energies than fighting for civil rights, sound economic policy, sound environmental policy, or improved political processes? I kinda doubt it. Metric is nice, but honestly I care way more about health care, climate change, or gay marriage to bother lobbying about units of measurement.
Sell the patents to another patent troll company. Duh.
Yes, we still do use miles. And my military can beat up your military. I can do country posturing too! So there! (Honestly, I prefer metric, but there are way to many people in this country proud of being dumb to ever hope to switch)
On a more mature topic, do you know the flight distance where unit of mortality per unit of distance is the same for both driving and flying?
Except that teachers who grade easier get higher ratings. True story.
I always feel like you should be the norm and I should be the slacker... Instead I'm still above average. I'm bad at math and I'm significantly above average. o_O
I should be someone who had to struggle through school if you ask me, because I'm kinda a lazy dumb dumb. I'm bad at math, terrible with language, and I have a fuzy memory for everything but concepts. The only redeeming quality in my intellect I can find is my analytical skills, but those aren't every tested in school.