Opening scene: three techno-geeks are getting pumped, they lock'n'load, they're ready for action. The countdown is complete. They rush forward
TG1:Quick, everybody in the same bunker!, we can't be more than 1/2 of a foot away from each other or our screaming will drown out any attempt to communicate tactically TG2:Bunker? what the hell are you talking about? this thing's just an extruded v-shape. Shit, if bunkers were made like this do you have any idea how much easier d-day would've been? TG3:No time for that techno-geek 2, the virtual bikes are coming! Open Fire, dakka dakka dakka TG2:I don't mean to be a party-pooper, but i can't help but notice that the three most central bikes are pointed pretty much directly at us and firing constantly despite a serious lack of visible ammo feed (i guess it's all internal anyway). Anyway, since we're pretty much taking all the space (at least from a 2-d topdown perspective) of this "bunker", shouldn't we be cut to shreds if their guns are aimed at a height appropriate for assaulting said bunker? And if it's not, then this is a pretty dumb level, no? TG3:Silence techno-geek 2, just fire...phew that's the last of them. You know it was pretty cool how we managed to keep up a constant stream of fire without ever requiring to reload. Fortunately mulder will run out of ammo at a critical moment since he's dumb enough to pick the gun running on windows 3.1
The three techno-geeks rush from cover and fire at the nazis (?) in the buildings to their side, who despite having the tactical advantage of cover, angle and height are unable to hit anybody except captain chunky. TG1: Thank god captain chunky died. Heheh, look at him squirming cozza those 12 volt shocks. God that's great. Anyway, i'm off to get to level 2, so long sucker! Tg2:Wait no! you're about to enter a non-combat zone!, since we're just the superflous extras, you're sure to die in there! Techno geek 1 does not heed TG2's warning and instead rushes into the virtual garage where he meets up with supervixenbabe. Naturally he lowers his weapon and kisses the hand of svb since he's in a virtual videogame where he's supposed to kill everyone and you never shoot a lady. TG1:Oh shit, this is just like that time i zoomed in on that chick in Q3 with the "naked britney spears" skin. You're about to frag my ass 'aint ya? supervixenbabe: yeah, that's about what's going to happen, ah-huh. Fortunately you will not suffer any kind of nueral-response of any strength which might cause some kind of mental-breakdown. Instead, you will actually be shot with a flintlock pistol that, and this is the cool part, leaves a bullethole, but no gunpowder residue. Now, regardless of whether the pistol is virtual or not it can't do that. Muahahah, clever huh? The truth is we haven't finished coding the supervixenbabe and somebody forgot to add the explosive residue effect. Naturally Sculley and Mulder are called to the scene, especially since there's no sign of paranormal activity which means this definately does NOT constitute an X-file. Stuff happens, Mulder learns that the entire game is run on a Windows NT machine service pack 2 (olea32.dll errors anyone?) . Mulder is unfazed because he gets to say "Uhh, can you texture wrap her? *smirk*" Mulder: Holy shit sculley it's thresh! Yeah, we've got a homicidal VR system which is clearly a police matter, but we're okay now because we have SOMEONE WHO PLAYS VIDEO GAMES TOO MUCH, phew, now we're saved. Hmm.... he appears to have been cut up by some kind of virtual-sword. A broadsword at that. Wait a minute, isnt' a broadsword like 6 feet long? hmm, i guess this one isn't. Oh well, this looks like fun, i better go in and play Geeky guy in charge: Oh shit, people might start getting the impression chicks like FPS games....uhh what do we do? quick, somebody hire an emotionally-retarded mal-adjusted female to be the lead-programmer whose complete lack of self-respect will cause her to program some kind of supervixen to anihilate everybody Geeky guy second in command: uh. sure Mulder goes in gets opened a can-o-whoop ass, sculley runs in and saves her in some kind of really warped level 2 Geeky guy in charge: Shit nobody ever beat level 2!...fuck what was it...uhh...idkfa, that's it, IDKFA! quick, somebody tell them...oh noo it's too late, the chick's on the tank. In a western setting. hmm, must've been one of the levels we sub-contracted to those macintosh guys... Sculley kicks supervixen's ass. lone gunmen:Tell us the command that deletes the entire program and any backup files you may have! Geekey guy in charge: Why the fuck did i program that command in again?... lone gunmen:i dunno, that was pretty dumb huh? Geekey guy in charges begins to hug the keyboard for no apparent reason. This worries many viewers, parental discression is strongly advised. The Lone gunmen: Shit, i can't end task! the program is not responding....! quick ALT-CTRL-DEL....aww fuck, why is this taking so long? does NT HAVE to hog the ram..., multi-task my ass.... It turns out the system admin terminated the SINISTER_PLAYER_OF_DOOM account which kills supervixen and causes the entire program to shut down, delete itself and make the geekey guy in charge cry. Yay for our heroes.
I used to have the same problem, but I think the trick is simply mass-market flooding.
Not only do you have to give your friends full albums for free, you have to make sure that they get every album from that artist, search for the cover of the album online, download it and print it out so that the CDs you give them are a near-exact replica of what they'd get at a store (dont forget to do all this at work, off of the company t3, using the company laser-printer and company CDrs).
Also, don't introduce people to new kinds of music...now you're just creating needless consumers. Only give your friends the CDs they were going to buy anyway, otherwise their tastes might expand and they'll start being so damn open-minded that they start liking a wider range of bands, suddenly it's much harder for you to stop them from actually purchasing a CD.
Okay now i'm sorry if this point has already been brought up. I read a lot of posts in this thread, but didn't see it addressed. You see, whether there are legitimate reasons for having/using mp3s or not, the fact is that almost all (say 80+%) of mp3 traffic is stricktly a violation of copyright law. If you don't believe me, check out Napster.com and log on. You'll find times when a full terrabyte of music is available, and guess what, this is stolen music. There is very little difference (read: none) between taking a copyrighted song in mp3 format and simply stealing it from a store.
Don't get me wrong. I'm in no way saying there's anything wrong with stealing artists music. In fact, I fully endorse stealing mainstream music, but why the hell is everybody (again this might just be me mis-interpreting/. posts) trying to defend mp3 on some kind of self-rightous level? Most mp3 traffic is illegal. That simple. Of course the RIAA files a lawsuit against mp3.com, and so they should. The way the.mp3 file format is being used is a genuince violation of copyright laws. Now, whether you give a damn about said copyright laws is entirely another matter (like i said, i fully endorse ripping off mainstream artists... there's no way in hell anybody whose merely an entertainer deserves as much $$$ as they get).
Guys, bag on the RIAA all you want, but their lawsuit isn't some kind of sinister-conspiracy. It's what anybody would do in their position. No need to be self-rightous. Anyway, it makes no difference. The music industry as we know it is undergoing a severe rape. And I say it's about damn time.
seriously, run. sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups. Hell, if you actually CARE about losing weight, just go down to your local marine corps recruiter and ask him/her what the best kind of exercising is for you to do.
You're not going to find any other way around it, diets will make you weaker, as eating less will cause you to lose muscle as much as fat (and if you eat less but still eat high-fat foods, it's even worse). What's better is to eat a high-calorie diet and just run for a few hours a day. It's not that scary, just start off slow and work up to whatever you can get to. Once you're done, you'll feel a lot better about yourself too.
Actually I suspect it has more to do with the incessant and inescapable desire of some 97% of the modern society to do everything within their power to escape all forms of work, including but not limited to: exercise. people are just damned lazy, it's that simple. welcome to the failure that is: the mtv generation
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Opening scene: three techno-geeks are getting pumped, they lock'n'load, they're ready for action. The countdown is complete. They rush forward
TG1:Quick, everybody in the same bunker!, we can't be more than 1/2 of a foot away from each other or our screaming will drown out any attempt to communicate tactically
TG2:Bunker? what the hell are you talking about? this thing's just an extruded v-shape. Shit, if bunkers were made like this do you have any idea how much easier d-day would've been?
TG3:No time for that techno-geek 2, the virtual bikes are coming! Open Fire, dakka dakka dakka
TG2:I don't mean to be a party-pooper, but i can't help but notice that the three most central bikes are pointed pretty much directly at us and firing constantly despite a serious lack of visible ammo feed (i guess it's all internal anyway). Anyway, since we're pretty much taking all the space (at least from a 2-d topdown perspective) of this "bunker", shouldn't we be cut to shreds if their guns are aimed at a height appropriate for assaulting said bunker? And if it's not, then this is a pretty dumb level, no?
TG3:Silence techno-geek 2, just fire...phew that's the last of them. You know it was pretty cool how we managed to keep up a constant stream of fire without ever requiring to reload. Fortunately mulder will run out of ammo at a critical moment since he's dumb enough to pick the gun running on windows 3.1
The three techno-geeks rush from cover and fire at the nazis (?) in the buildings to their side, who despite having the tactical advantage of cover, angle and height are unable to hit anybody except captain chunky.
TG1: Thank god captain chunky died. Heheh, look at him squirming cozza those 12 volt shocks. God that's great. Anyway, i'm off to get to level 2, so long sucker!
Tg2:Wait no! you're about to enter a non-combat zone!, since we're just the superflous extras, you're sure to die in there!
Techno geek 1 does not heed TG2's warning and instead rushes into the virtual garage where he meets up with supervixenbabe. Naturally he lowers his weapon and kisses the hand of svb since he's in a virtual videogame where he's supposed to kill everyone and you never shoot a lady.
TG1:Oh shit, this is just like that time i zoomed in on that chick in Q3 with the "naked britney spears" skin. You're about to frag my ass 'aint ya? supervixenbabe: yeah, that's about what's going to happen, ah-huh. Fortunately you will not suffer any kind of nueral-response of any strength which might cause some kind of mental-breakdown. Instead, you will actually be shot with a flintlock pistol that, and this is the cool part, leaves a bullethole, but no gunpowder residue. Now, regardless of whether the pistol is virtual or not it can't do that. Muahahah, clever huh? The truth is we haven't finished coding the supervixenbabe and somebody forgot to add the explosive residue effect.
Naturally Sculley and Mulder are called to the scene, especially since there's no sign of paranormal activity which means this definately does NOT constitute an X-file. Stuff happens, Mulder learns that the entire game is run on a Windows NT machine service pack 2 (olea32.dll errors anyone?) . Mulder is unfazed because he gets to say "Uhh, can you texture wrap her? *smirk*"
Mulder: Holy shit sculley it's thresh! Yeah, we've got a homicidal VR system which is clearly a police matter, but we're okay now because we have SOMEONE WHO PLAYS VIDEO GAMES TOO MUCH, phew, now we're saved. Hmm.... he appears to have been cut up by some kind of virtual-sword. A broadsword at that. Wait a minute, isnt' a broadsword like 6 feet long? hmm, i guess this one isn't. Oh well, this looks like fun, i better go in and play
Geeky guy in charge: Oh shit, people might start getting the impression chicks like FPS games....uhh what do we do? quick, somebody hire an emotionally-retarded mal-adjusted female to be the lead-programmer whose complete lack of self-respect will cause her to program some kind of supervixen to anihilate everybody
Geeky guy second in command: uh. sure
Mulder goes in gets opened a can-o-whoop ass, sculley runs in and saves her in some kind of really warped level 2
Geeky guy in charge: Shit nobody ever beat level 2!...fuck what was it...uhh...idkfa, that's it, IDKFA! quick, somebody tell them...oh noo it's too late, the chick's on the tank. In a western setting. hmm, must've been one of the levels we sub-contracted to those macintosh guys...
Sculley kicks supervixen's ass.
lone gunmen:Tell us the command that deletes the entire program and any backup files you may have!
Geekey guy in charge: Why the fuck did i program that command in again?...
lone gunmen:i dunno, that was pretty dumb huh?
Geekey guy in charges begins to hug the keyboard for no apparent reason. This worries many viewers, parental discression is strongly advised.
The Lone gunmen: Shit, i can't end task! the program is not responding....! quick ALT-CTRL-DEL....aww fuck, why is this taking so long? does NT HAVE to hog the ram..., multi-task my ass....
It turns out the system admin terminated the SINISTER_PLAYER_OF_DOOM account which kills supervixen and causes the entire program to shut down, delete itself and make the geekey guy in charge cry. Yay for our heroes.
I used to have the same problem, but I think the trick is simply mass-market flooding.
Not only do you have to give your friends full albums for free, you have to make sure that they get every album from that artist, search for the cover of the album online, download it and print it out so that the CDs you give them are a near-exact replica of what they'd get at a store (dont forget to do all this at work, off of the company t3, using the company laser-printer and company CDrs).
Also, don't introduce people to new kinds of music...now you're just creating needless consumers. Only give your friends the CDs they were going to buy anyway, otherwise their tastes might expand and they'll start being so damn open-minded that they start liking a wider range of bands, suddenly it's much harder for you to stop them from actually purchasing a CD.
Hope this helps
Okay now i'm sorry if this point has already been brought up. I read a lot of posts in this thread, but didn't see it addressed. You see, whether there are legitimate reasons for having/using mp3s or not, the fact is that almost all (say 80+%) of mp3 traffic is stricktly a violation of copyright law. If you don't believe me, check out Napster.com and log on. You'll find times when a full terrabyte of music is available, and guess what, this is stolen music. There is very little difference (read: none) between taking a copyrighted song in mp3 format and simply stealing it from a store.
/. posts) trying to defend mp3 on some kind of self-rightous level? Most mp3 traffic is illegal. That simple. Of course the RIAA files a lawsuit against mp3.com, and so they should. The way the .mp3 file format is being used is a genuince violation of copyright laws. Now, whether you give a damn about said copyright laws is entirely another matter (like i said, i fully endorse ripping off mainstream artists... there's no way in hell anybody whose merely an entertainer deserves as much $$$ as they get).
Don't get me wrong. I'm in no way saying there's anything wrong with stealing artists music. In fact, I fully endorse stealing mainstream music, but why the hell is everybody (again this might just be me mis-interpreting
Guys, bag on the RIAA all you want, but their lawsuit isn't some kind of sinister-conspiracy. It's what anybody would do in their position. No need to be self-rightous. Anyway, it makes no difference. The music industry as we know it is undergoing a severe rape. And I say it's about damn time.
What's the message here? even in space, there are 404 errors: galaxy not found?
seriously, run. sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups. Hell, if you actually CARE about losing weight, just go down to your local marine corps recruiter and ask him/her what the best kind of exercising is for you to do.
You're not going to find any other way around it, diets will make you weaker, as eating less will cause you to lose muscle as much as fat (and if you eat less but still eat high-fat foods, it's even worse). What's better is to eat a high-calorie diet and just run for a few hours a day. It's not that scary, just start off slow and work up to whatever you can get to. Once you're done, you'll feel a lot better about yourself too.
People just need to stop bein' so damn lazy.
Actually I suspect it has more to do with the incessant and inescapable desire of some 97% of the modern society to do everything within their power to escape all forms of work, including but not limited to: exercise. people are just damned lazy, it's that simple. welcome to the failure that is: the mtv generation