You're comparing this guy to Mother Theresa because he wants to spend one week volunteering? Wow. I spent two weeks building a school in Belize - does that make me Mother Theresa times 2 then?
And why does wanting to enjoy your life and the fruits of your labor make someone evil?
My first thought to this was "THAT's what you want to do on vacation? The exact same thing you do in your regular work week, only without getting paid?"
As for the feeling of accomplishment after "working hard and training", you might want to check out the "Addicted to Fake Accomplishment" article (by a hard core MMORPG player) that someone else posted in this thread. I thought it was an interesting way to put it.
They are fake accomplishments, which is why I specifically was talking about single-player RPG's with a defined story. I don't get the people who chase the "you played 100 hours!" types of achievements...
I think one of my all time favorite "Crappy game that helped kill a company" is Heroes of Might and Magic IV. 3DO had always had success with the M&M and HOMM games until that epic fail came out. I'm just glad that Ubisoft bought the rights to the series after 3DO went bust.
I had Myst back when it was new and never understood why people liked it. Yes, puzzles are fun, but there wasn't really a POINT to the game. It's kind of why I dislike most shooters - yea, shooting people (in games) is fun, but only if there's a point to it. Just my $0.02
IMHO, RPGs, are the most time consuming type of game you can play and serve primarily to feed the the player's obsessive-compulsive instincts for very little, if any, tangible benefit. You basically run around behaving repetitively & collecting as much virtual crap as you can. Your reward is "experience" which can only be taken advantage of with further gameplay. I find the crack analogies to be very compelling.
Sounds like you've only played action-RPG's or MMORPG's. A real RPG (Baldur's Gate, Morrowind, games like that) are about telling a story. As the story progresses your character learns new things and grows (just like in real life). Where's the feeling of accomplishment in Baldur's Gate if you start off from the beginning at level 40 and can destroy all enemies in the blink of an eye? However, watching your character slowly grow over the course of the series and become stronger and stronger so that they can fight the epic battles, THAT gives you a feeling of accomplishment.
To use a car analogy, it would be like if race car drivers were automatically the best drivers in the world the second they put on the racing suit - there's no accomplishment there. However, since they have to train and work hard to become the best, there's a feeling of accomplishment.
You were significantly less full of crap than other newspapers.
I take this to mean that you've never read the NYT then. Even as bad as Fox News is for promoting Republicans, the NYT is WAY worse at promoting Democrats.
It's not unlike the airline industry, which has been in revenue hell forever, being essentially nothing but price competition. Now, they're starting to charge for things they didn't used to. The public is up in arms! But they're all doing it. If you don't like it, you can drive.
And I gladly drive! Not only because it's BS for them to nickel and dime you to death, but also because that way I don't have to deal with the TSA and don't have to worry about being arrested because they don't like my t-shirt, I have a laptop with me, I want a drink while traveling, etc. Sorry, but I can't understand why anyone would fly anymore unless it's absolutely mandatory.
They didn't do either. Back when they made the first Terminator they had to make molds of his face (for doing the parts of the movie where he gets bits of his face ripped off) and they simply scanned those molds in to a computer to make the models for T4. I was very impressed with how real it looked.
Wow, so in typical Obama-supporter fashion, you get mad when people present facts (such as the article outing Sunstein's views), make no actual point, and just use childish insults against people you know nothing about but hate them because they don't like Obama. Good to know that you're not a stereotype!
You mean the part where they accurately show his proposed ideas for how to deal with dissenters?
Just because people don't like how Obama is rapidly trying to turn the United States of American in the the Orwellian States of America doesn't mean that they are "hysterical" - that means that, unlike you, they give a damn about their rights, freedom, and about the principles this country was founded on.
So telling the truth about the beliefs of someone Obama wants to appoint to a high level office is now FUD? I guess your whole "I'm unbiased" rant was just proven to be false.
However, as you note, the bulk of their discussion is of counter-propaganda efforts
And our benevolent Lord and Savior, Big Brother Obama, will create the Ministry of Truth to perform those efforts. Seriously, is anyone else worried that Obama is using Brave New World and 1984 as his administration policy? Though if I had to pick one to live in, I'd choose Brave New World...
Exactly. Better to take a page out of Swordfish and strap some C-4 and ball bearings to your chest - at least that way you're guaranteed to take some of the fuckers out.
The only times Obama has been attacked by the left is for not acting enough like a dictator. More than half of the country is pissed that Obama is trying to force through Obamacare as (in Obama's own words) "a first step to a single payer system". The left is pissed that Obamacare isn't jumped straight to complete government control.
So yes, he's been attacked by the left - but only for not acting even worse than he already does.
Actually, I think the reason why they want to bring back the "Fairness" (yea, right!) Doctrine is because the number of people completely pissed off at the government keeps growing larger and larger, and they're not staying quite anymore. This is a desperate attempt by a political party that knows that they're going to be tossed out on their asses in next years elections trying to manipulate the media to calm down the rising tidal wave of dissent.
I want someone who's different, because I love learning new things. However, that doesn't mean that I'm going to get involved with someone I have nothing in common with and as a result, nothing to talk about nor any activities we both enjoy together.
Should still go out on dates with a few, even if they initially strike you as "less than perfect"
Never said you shouldn't. However, you should get to know a girl before you go on a date with her, and in the process of getting to know her before asking her on a date, you can find out if she doesn't meet certain requirements (intelligence level, political views, vegan, whatever).
The fact that you think having shared interests, similar values, and someone you can actually get along with is a bad thing in a significant other prove that you are inexperienced with dating. I used to be like you and think "any girl who shows an interest I should go out with" - then as I got older and older I learned to be more and more picky because I learned what I needed in someone in order to be happy with them in a relationship. We're not talking about friends - yes, if you're picky about your friends, you're not too smart. However, if you're not picky with who you date, all you're going to do is get hurt / hurt the other person.
I'd guess that the real reason you're so pissed off that people have standards is that you've yet to meet a girl whose standards you met.
Uhm, dude, have you ever watched British tv? Now, I love a girl with a sexy British accent and I've seen (and met) some incredibly hot British girls, but the average British girl is at least a whole notch lower than the average American girl. So if you say that the average American girl is a 5, then in the UK the average is a 4.
......only if it's a one night stand...or a week of non-stop sex, tops. But we're not talking about some crazy hot nutcase you hook up with, we're talking about an actual relationship.
When did he ever say he's looking for a female clone of himself? Oh, that's right - he didn't.
Also, did you ever stop to think that some people out there - WAIT FOR IT! - actually aren't shallow and don't want a girlfriend just to get some? Yea, some people actually care about having a meaningful relationship, I know - sounds crazy, right?
I'm not talking about looking for someone "perfect", but living "happily ever after" with someone you can't stand only happens in movies and marriages that are covering up affairs.
Sorry that I'm not foolish enough to marry someone totally wrong and have the bitch take all my money and possessions.
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You're comparing this guy to Mother Theresa because he wants to spend one week volunteering? Wow. I spent two weeks building a school in Belize - does that make me Mother Theresa times 2 then?
So by not wanting to waste his vacation working, he's a sociopath? Sounds like you need to lay off the collectivism and breathe in some reality.
And why does wanting to enjoy your life and the fruits of your labor make someone evil?
My first thought to this was "THAT's what you want to do on vacation? The exact same thing you do in your regular work week, only without getting paid?"
As for the feeling of accomplishment after "working hard and training", you might want to check out the "Addicted to Fake Accomplishment" article (by a hard core MMORPG player) that someone else posted in this thread. I thought it was an interesting way to put it.
They are fake accomplishments, which is why I specifically was talking about single-player RPG's with a defined story. I don't get the people who chase the "you played 100 hours!" types of achievements...
I think one of my all time favorite "Crappy game that helped kill a company" is Heroes of Might and Magic IV. 3DO had always had success with the M&M and HOMM games until that epic fail came out. I'm just glad that Ubisoft bought the rights to the series after 3DO went bust.
I had Myst back when it was new and never understood why people liked it. Yes, puzzles are fun, but there wasn't really a POINT to the game. It's kind of why I dislike most shooters - yea, shooting people (in games) is fun, but only if there's a point to it. Just my $0.02
IMHO, RPGs, are the most time consuming type of game you can play and serve primarily to feed the the player's obsessive-compulsive instincts for very little, if any, tangible benefit. You basically run around behaving repetitively & collecting as much virtual crap as you can. Your reward is "experience" which can only be taken advantage of with further gameplay. I find the crack analogies to be very compelling.
Sounds like you've only played action-RPG's or MMORPG's. A real RPG (Baldur's Gate, Morrowind, games like that) are about telling a story. As the story progresses your character learns new things and grows (just like in real life). Where's the feeling of accomplishment in Baldur's Gate if you start off from the beginning at level 40 and can destroy all enemies in the blink of an eye? However, watching your character slowly grow over the course of the series and become stronger and stronger so that they can fight the epic battles, THAT gives you a feeling of accomplishment.
To use a car analogy, it would be like if race car drivers were automatically the best drivers in the world the second they put on the racing suit - there's no accomplishment there. However, since they have to train and work hard to become the best, there's a feeling of accomplishment.
You were significantly less full of crap than other newspapers.
I take this to mean that you've never read the NYT then. Even as bad as Fox News is for promoting Republicans, the NYT is WAY worse at promoting Democrats.
It's not unlike the airline industry, which has been in revenue hell forever, being essentially nothing but price competition. Now, they're starting to charge for things they didn't used to. The public is up in arms! But they're all doing it. If you don't like it, you can drive.
And I gladly drive! Not only because it's BS for them to nickel and dime you to death, but also because that way I don't have to deal with the TSA and don't have to worry about being arrested because they don't like my t-shirt, I have a laptop with me, I want a drink while traveling, etc. Sorry, but I can't understand why anyone would fly anymore unless it's absolutely mandatory.
They didn't do either. Back when they made the first Terminator they had to make molds of his face (for doing the parts of the movie where he gets bits of his face ripped off) and they simply scanned those molds in to a computer to make the models for T4. I was very impressed with how real it looked.
Wow, so in typical Obama-supporter fashion, you get mad when people present facts (such as the article outing Sunstein's views), make no actual point, and just use childish insults against people you know nothing about but hate them because they don't like Obama. Good to know that you're not a stereotype!
You mean the part where they accurately show his proposed ideas for how to deal with dissenters?
Just because people don't like how Obama is rapidly trying to turn the United States of American in the the Orwellian States of America doesn't mean that they are "hysterical" - that means that, unlike you, they give a damn about their rights, freedom, and about the principles this country was founded on.
So telling the truth about the beliefs of someone Obama wants to appoint to a high level office is now FUD? I guess your whole "I'm unbiased" rant was just proven to be false.
However, as you note, the bulk of their discussion is of counter-propaganda efforts
And our benevolent Lord and Savior, Big Brother Obama, will create the Ministry of Truth to perform those efforts. Seriously, is anyone else worried that Obama is using Brave New World and 1984 as his administration policy? Though if I had to pick one to live in, I'd choose Brave New World...
Exactly. Better to take a page out of Swordfish and strap some C-4 and ball bearings to your chest - at least that way you're guaranteed to take some of the fuckers out.
The only times Obama has been attacked by the left is for not acting enough like a dictator. More than half of the country is pissed that Obama is trying to force through Obamacare as (in Obama's own words) "a first step to a single payer system". The left is pissed that Obamacare isn't jumped straight to complete government control.
So yes, he's been attacked by the left - but only for not acting even worse than he already does.
Actually, I think the reason why they want to bring back the "Fairness" (yea, right!) Doctrine is because the number of people completely pissed off at the government keeps growing larger and larger, and they're not staying quite anymore. This is a desperate attempt by a political party that knows that they're going to be tossed out on their asses in next years elections trying to manipulate the media to calm down the rising tidal wave of dissent.
I want someone who's different, because I love learning new things. However, that doesn't mean that I'm going to get involved with someone I have nothing in common with and as a result, nothing to talk about nor any activities we both enjoy together.
Should still go out on dates with a few, even if they initially strike you as "less than perfect"
Never said you shouldn't. However, you should get to know a girl before you go on a date with her, and in the process of getting to know her before asking her on a date, you can find out if she doesn't meet certain requirements (intelligence level, political views, vegan, whatever).
Nope, never thought that - not even the times that I hooked up with married girls.
The fact that you think having shared interests, similar values, and someone you can actually get along with is a bad thing in a significant other prove that you are inexperienced with dating. I used to be like you and think "any girl who shows an interest I should go out with" - then as I got older and older I learned to be more and more picky because I learned what I needed in someone in order to be happy with them in a relationship. We're not talking about friends - yes, if you're picky about your friends, you're not too smart. However, if you're not picky with who you date, all you're going to do is get hurt / hurt the other person.
I'd guess that the real reason you're so pissed off that people have standards is that you've yet to meet a girl whose standards you met.
Uhm, dude, have you ever watched British tv? Now, I love a girl with a sexy British accent and I've seen (and met) some incredibly hot British girls, but the average British girl is at least a whole notch lower than the average American girl. So if you say that the average American girl is a 5, then in the UK the average is a 4.
......only if it's a one night stand...or a week of non-stop sex, tops. But we're not talking about some crazy hot nutcase you hook up with, we're talking about an actual relationship.
When did he ever say he's looking for a female clone of himself? Oh, that's right - he didn't.
Also, did you ever stop to think that some people out there - WAIT FOR IT! - actually aren't shallow and don't want a girlfriend just to get some? Yea, some people actually care about having a meaningful relationship, I know - sounds crazy, right?
I'm not talking about looking for someone "perfect", but living "happily ever after" with someone you can't stand only happens in movies and marriages that are covering up affairs.
Sorry that I'm not foolish enough to marry someone totally wrong and have the bitch take all my money and possessions.