And in traffic court, the judge started out for the day announcing to everyone that based on the Cop's statement and claim of the speed gun reading, you're already guilty, and you need to prove your innocence. How exactly are you to prove you weren't speeding?
Having hard enough time fighting a parking ticket by private company handling the city's parking. You need to prove your innocence.
I can understand occupation and enslavement. But the brutality of killing women and children, skewing them and displaying them in fields. It wasn't systematic and clean genocide. It was slaughter in the cruelest manner they could think of.
China has it's history of Spirits and vengeful dead. They even have their lore of vampires, I think it was Guilty Gear X that made a character based on Chinese vamps. But if you look back to Chinese, Korean, or Japanese, not familiar with Vietnamese, "spirits" or "ghosts" are good lingers, once they start being evil or vengeful dead, they're called oni, or demons. Some traditionalist still make shrines, over food, light candles, and all that thing about honoured dead.
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It was an example of a bad rebranded concept. It was pretty much MS' Age of Empire Engine, with SW graphics. It's an example of companies not caring how shitty a game is, only trying to bank on their "theme".
Doesn't work on you, but they do it because it works on a demographics. I'll segue into ads on TV too, I think most are moronic, but hey, they work on enough people that they'd shell out millions for it.
Rebranding a RTS based on a "theme". Not a new tactic, and not without success. MS even did it with Star Wars. Never underestimate a rabid fan base. SW Battlefield was so horrible (I am not a rabid SW fan, it was free with purchase of something else)
You may not be a "fan-atic" but there will be those who will buy the mediocre game just because it gives them another view into their "theme". You may also not be the same type to buy Halo dungaroos, T-shirt, duffle bag. Out of curiosity, what did you think about Blue vs Red?
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1. Yeah but some games don't give you the option of real disc anymore. They go straight to Steam. I could not buy the game, but yeah.
Astronomy is still a science, albeit...feels weird to call it a science. But science corrects itself when it makes a mistake. When they learn more of something, and it no longer falls into previous assumptions or theories. It's progressive, history be damned.
But when you said that, I thought of the funny stupid thing of organizations selling the rights to name stars.
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1. Yeah until Steam is no longer around and you find yourself without any of the games you paid for. Sure most people wouldn't care about decade old games they paid for, hey they hadn't played it in awhile, they'd never miss it. Same business model as those DRMed music stores that go bye bye with your songs, which you would miss. We're back to not owning our purchases and leasing it.
2. And I never tried it without internet access, but I know when you try to run a game (even one that's not online to play) it opens up steam. I had a problem once when I had steam running, and I opened the game from my desktop, and it said problem, steam is running, can't open again.
3. And the long download times. Buying a digital download game is all and cool, and progressive. But I'd still like to burn my own copy for backup. I'm one of those people who like reformatting their computer for ha ha's, incidentally I've been a Windows user for a decade. I also like to uninstall games that I haven't played in awhile to make room for new games, and then reinstall it years later when I like to revisit. I hope steam doesn't grumble at how many times you can install someday.
4. I also have two computers, a gaming computer for when I want to concentrate on gaming. And an all purpose computer that I'll play the game on with all the lags involved when I don't feel like booting up my gaming computer.
I do like steam for their handy demos, and trailers, though there's youtube for the trailer. And it was very innovative, although I wonder if they distribute the games via Torrent tech.
I also find it amusing, they have a bunch of classic games that they sell.
But my latest annoyance is DoW2 is Steam online. DoW is definetely a game that I'd want a backup of because RTS games you can go back to years later.
And if it's small enough, it's called a dwarf planet or planetoid or plutoids or whatever they're calling them. Just like if a star is small enough, it's called a dwarf star. It's just further categorizing something.
I'm sure they can find some spherical asteroids orbiting the sun in that asteroid belt.
I wonder if Pluto even rotate. It has no molten core, they say Pluto is a giant sphere of ice. They should just attach some giant rockets to the planet, and fly it towards the sun till it melts and completely disappears so people will stop squabbling.
The word planet has a meaning. If they use it for something that's not a planet, well that'd just confuse people. If they want to add Pluto, then they have to change the accepted meaning of planet...and add everything else that's like Pluto. Which is stupid, cause what's the point of categorizing something, if they make it that broad.
It's sad when we measure the crappiness of an educational system, by whether or not they refuse to teach evolution, or try to pass Creationism as science and fact.
Employer at McD's weighs two teenager. Teenager 1 is a high school dropout. Teenager 2 graduate from a school system that forces Creationism. The manager says to Teenager 2, I'm sorry, I can't trust that your school taught you basic number recognition. I always wondered why they bothered asking what HS we went to on job applications.
This also makes me chuckle as I think of Fry's reaction of only being a college dropout and re-enrolls to drop out again:)
A word like that is used to label an object based on shared characteristics, defining it's parameter. One of the parameter on a planet is simple, size. Otherwise it's pointless, I could call the moon a planet.
Yo mama so big, she has her own gravitational pull
Whats the difference between yo mama and a black hole? They might both suck up everything that gets near them but the black hole will at least let something escape its area.
How is the solar system slimmer than yo mama? Because it at least can fit a belt around it's center.
It's funny you should mention that, Tracy Hickman wrote a book called "The Immortals" that takes a scary look at what our country could turn into if it was run literally through interactive TV, targeted ads, popular vote on everything by the idiots of the country and using fear to subjugate the country by a religious egomaniac.
Public information is public. Means accessible to the public. Just because generally it was difficult to get the information due to technological limitations, does not mean an online database of sort or website list, makes it non-public.
Salary of higher ups in non-profit is public information. There are websites dedicated to disclosing it. It's not easy to access, but it's there. Before the websites, who knows how you were suppose to get that public information.
They've started putting up deed and mortage info on municipality websites too, government is moving into the 20th century. Before and I remember, you had to go in, request the information, they dig out the paper. When you think back on how silly pre-digital information storage was, I don't know how'd we make it through without computers.
Maybe it's surprising because people took them to be activists looking for a platform to rant and rave. TPB was/is a political group as well, though I don't know if the defendants themselves were part of that group.
I believe they did the smart thing, and probably listened to their lawyers. Offtopic and trolling moderated by a Judge definetely is not in a person's favor.
He said books/movies != Real Life in response to the GP that made a reference to a nightmare scenario from a book/movie. I pointed out that, books and movies can be prophetic. That's the point of imagination, wondering what could be and seeing if it can become real life. Hence also my reference books that became "Real Life" and the groups in government that spend their time writing papers on worse case scenarios and plan for disasters.
Are you deliberately not reading or just plain don't understand how each one was an example towards his statement "Books != movies".
Yeah and beta didn't have 1 player mode to practice on. I suppose the biggest problem, I was having such a slow learning curve, constantly reacting to the more experienced players. Beta was over by the time I figured out, my first 3 units should be cheap fodder, and upgrade their activated abilities, because they're not as worthless as I perceive. And to be on the offensive. On most maps, you can cross the line in 3 places, if not more. By the time you're ready to attack, so is he. If you defend all 3, none of them is strong enough to face his combined attack. But if you attack, he faces the same problem. One of the complaints people had was, Tier 3 tech wasn't as useful as Tier 1 and 2 because by the time you can afford Tier 3, you probably have the map controlled and you're pushing him in the corner. I'm used to being more defensive, strong infrastructure, and survive long battle being efficient in resources and minimizing loss while maximizing kills. You can write spreadsheets to calculate the best course of action with something that slow paced. But with fast pace aggressive games, you have to wing a lot of it, and just be damn good, not plan good. Was fun while it lasted, I'll probably get it when it drops down in price.
Funny you should mention it, I tried Dawn of War 2 Beta on steam, and man did I suck. I don't just mean I couldn't win (except zerging as Tyranids), I mean I was completely overwhelmed and crushed.
With DoW1, the maps were normally wide, and took more than 1.5 min to get all the points and start engaging in battles. But with DoW2, it was a matter of quick multitasking right off the bat, a level of micromanaging the units to make them useful, as range usually gets overwhelmed by melee, and battles were normally over in 10 mins.
My only problem with your statement is "proper order of things" as you're trying to impose some rules on priority. One represents love and commitment and the other entertainment? I know being an obsessed sports fanatic takes alot of irrational love of your team and damn obsessive amount of commitment, especially the groupies who travel with the teams. But calling your wife merely entertainment?:D
I truly think it's important that have the freedom to "idolize" who they want for whatever reasons they want as long as it's not taken too far. Pre-teen girls were idolized in Japan for a decade with mediocre singing or acting abilities...I'm not quite sure why. Some smart people get idolized for their contributions to society and science *shrugs*. The green and gold god of wealth and fortune. Rich or infuential family heirs and heiress get idolized. Some people even idolize their lawns *snickers*. Some idolize video games. All above maybe their spouses, jobs, or basic living conditions. Who's to say they are wrong in what they are idolizing, other than a dysfunctional way of life.
Now your wife or marriage can get boring and unfullfilling, does that mean you should reduce the amount of enjoyment you get from everything else in your life, so your appreciate your wife more than those? That's a pretty sad existance, what's the point in even living at that point.
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Interesting, I'm in MA, USA.
And in traffic court, the judge started out for the day announcing to everyone that based on the Cop's statement and claim of the speed gun reading, you're already guilty, and you need to prove your innocence. How exactly are you to prove you weren't speeding?
Having hard enough time fighting a parking ticket by private company handling the city's parking. You need to prove your innocence.
Uhm the Japanese probably freak the Chinese out because they invaded and slaughtered billions during the Sino-Japanese War?
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I can understand occupation and enslavement. But the brutality of killing women and children, skewing them and displaying them in fields. It wasn't systematic and clean genocide. It was slaughter in the cruelest manner they could think of.
China has it's history of Spirits and vengeful dead. They even have their lore of vampires, I think it was Guilty Gear X that made a character based on Chinese vamps. But if you look back to Chinese, Korean, or Japanese, not familiar with Vietnamese, "spirits" or "ghosts" are good lingers, once they start being evil or vengeful dead, they're called oni, or demons. Some traditionalist still make shrines, over food, light candles, and all that thing about honoured dead.
Yeah, you can keep the potty talks to yourself man. South Park has done it to death.
Sir, you didn't purchase any music CDs today, so I must believe you have stolen CDs. Please strip naked and prepare for a cavity search. On another note, remember to have your handy RIAA Support badge worn for a low low purchase price of $100 to avoid being hassled on the way out of our store.
It was an example of a bad rebranded concept. It was pretty much MS' Age of Empire Engine, with SW graphics. It's an example of companies not caring how shitty a game is, only trying to bank on their "theme".
Doesn't work on you, but they do it because it works on a demographics. I'll segue into ads on TV too, I think most are moronic, but hey, they work on enough people that they'd shell out millions for it.
Rebranding a RTS based on a "theme". Not a new tactic, and not without success. MS even did it with Star Wars. Never underestimate a rabid fan base. SW Battlefield was so horrible (I am not a rabid SW fan, it was free with purchase of something else)
You may not be a "fan-atic" but there will be those who will buy the mediocre game just because it gives them another view into their "theme". You may also not be the same type to buy Halo dungaroos, T-shirt, duffle bag. Out of curiosity, what did you think about Blue vs Red?
1. Yeah but some games don't give you the option of real disc anymore. They go straight to Steam. I could not buy the game, but yeah.
3rd party hardware boxes still rely on ActiveX to run their intranet controls, although I guess Java is becoming more popular, which I don't like.
But ActiveX has a huge level of vulnerability which lends to your statement, it needs to die.
Astronomy is still a science, albeit...feels weird to call it a science. But science corrects itself when it makes a mistake. When they learn more of something, and it no longer falls into previous assumptions or theories. It's progressive, history be damned.
But when you said that, I thought of the funny stupid thing of organizations selling the rights to name stars.
1. Yeah until Steam is no longer around and you find yourself without any of the games you paid for. Sure most people wouldn't care about decade old games they paid for, hey they hadn't played it in awhile, they'd never miss it. Same business model as those DRMed music stores that go bye bye with your songs, which you would miss. We're back to not owning our purchases and leasing it.
2. And I never tried it without internet access, but I know when you try to run a game (even one that's not online to play) it opens up steam. I had a problem once when I had steam running, and I opened the game from my desktop, and it said problem, steam is running, can't open again.
3. And the long download times. Buying a digital download game is all and cool, and progressive. But I'd still like to burn my own copy for backup. I'm one of those people who like reformatting their computer for ha ha's, incidentally I've been a Windows user for a decade. I also like to uninstall games that I haven't played in awhile to make room for new games, and then reinstall it years later when I like to revisit. I hope steam doesn't grumble at how many times you can install someday.
4. I also have two computers, a gaming computer for when I want to concentrate on gaming. And an all purpose computer that I'll play the game on with all the lags involved when I don't feel like booting up my gaming computer.
I do like steam for their handy demos, and trailers, though there's youtube for the trailer. And it was very innovative, although I wonder if they distribute the games via Torrent tech.
I also find it amusing, they have a bunch of classic games that they sell.
But my latest annoyance is DoW2 is Steam online. DoW is definetely a game that I'd want a backup of because RTS games you can go back to years later.
And if it's small enough, it's called a dwarf planet or planetoid or plutoids or whatever they're calling them. Just like if a star is small enough, it's called a dwarf star. It's just further categorizing something.
I'm sure they can find some spherical asteroids orbiting the sun in that asteroid belt.
I wonder if Pluto even rotate. It has no molten core, they say Pluto is a giant sphere of ice. They should just attach some giant rockets to the planet, and fly it towards the sun till it melts and completely disappears so people will stop squabbling.
The word planet has a meaning. If they use it for something that's not a planet, well that'd just confuse people. If they want to add Pluto, then they have to change the accepted meaning of planet...and add everything else that's like Pluto. Which is stupid, cause what's the point of categorizing something, if they make it that broad.
It's sad when we measure the crappiness of an educational system, by whether or not they refuse to teach evolution, or try to pass Creationism as science and fact.
Employer at McD's weighs two teenager. Teenager 1 is a high school dropout. Teenager 2 graduate from a school system that forces Creationism. The manager says to Teenager 2, I'm sorry, I can't trust that your school taught you basic number recognition. I always wondered why they bothered asking what HS we went to on job applications.
This also makes me chuckle as I think of Fry's reaction of only being a college dropout and re-enrolls to drop out again :)
A word like that is used to label an object based on shared characteristics, defining it's parameter. One of the parameter on a planet is simple, size. Otherwise it's pointless, I could call the moon a planet.
Yo mama so big, she has her own gravitational pull
Whats the difference between yo mama and a black hole? They might both suck up everything that gets near them but the black hole will at least let something escape its area.
How is the solar system slimmer than yo mama? Because it at least can fit a belt around it's center.
You forgot about the invasive ads beamed directly into your head while you sleep.
It's funny you should mention that, Tracy Hickman wrote a book called "The Immortals" that takes a scary look at what our country could turn into if it was run literally through interactive TV, targeted ads, popular vote on everything by the idiots of the country and using fear to subjugate the country by a religious egomaniac.
That or it reminds me of Idiocracy :D
Does this mean it'd be 24/7 porn? You watch porn and receive ads of porn. Porn Porn Porn Porn Po.....*goes into seizure*
Public information is public. Means accessible to the public. Just because generally it was difficult to get the information due to technological limitations, does not mean an online database of sort or website list, makes it non-public.
Salary of higher ups in non-profit is public information. There are websites dedicated to disclosing it. It's not easy to access, but it's there. Before the websites, who knows how you were suppose to get that public information.
They've started putting up deed and mortage info on municipality websites too, government is moving into the 20th century. Before and I remember, you had to go in, request the information, they dig out the paper. When you think back on how silly pre-digital information storage was, I don't know how'd we make it through without computers.
Maybe it's surprising because people took them to be activists looking for a platform to rant and rave. TPB was/is a political group as well, though I don't know if the defendants themselves were part of that group.
I believe they did the smart thing, and probably listened to their lawyers. Offtopic and trolling moderated by a Judge definetely is not in a person's favor.
He said books/movies != Real Life in response to the GP that made a reference to a nightmare scenario from a book/movie. I pointed out that, books and movies can be prophetic. That's the point of imagination, wondering what could be and seeing if it can become real life. Hence also my reference books that became "Real Life" and the groups in government that spend their time writing papers on worse case scenarios and plan for disasters.
Are you deliberately not reading or just plain don't understand how each one was an example towards his statement "Books != movies".
Yeah and beta didn't have 1 player mode to practice on. I suppose the biggest problem, I was having such a slow learning curve, constantly reacting to the more experienced players. Beta was over by the time I figured out, my first 3 units should be cheap fodder, and upgrade their activated abilities, because they're not as worthless as I perceive. And to be on the offensive. On most maps, you can cross the line in 3 places, if not more. By the time you're ready to attack, so is he. If you defend all 3, none of them is strong enough to face his combined attack. But if you attack, he faces the same problem. One of the complaints people had was, Tier 3 tech wasn't as useful as Tier 1 and 2 because by the time you can afford Tier 3, you probably have the map controlled and you're pushing him in the corner. I'm used to being more defensive, strong infrastructure, and survive long battle being efficient in resources and minimizing loss while maximizing kills. You can write spreadsheets to calculate the best course of action with something that slow paced. But with fast pace aggressive games, you have to wing a lot of it, and just be damn good, not plan good. Was fun while it lasted, I'll probably get it when it drops down in price.
Funny you should mention it, I tried Dawn of War 2 Beta on steam, and man did I suck. I don't just mean I couldn't win (except zerging as Tyranids), I mean I was completely overwhelmed and crushed.
With DoW1, the maps were normally wide, and took more than 1.5 min to get all the points and start engaging in battles. But with DoW2, it was a matter of quick multitasking right off the bat, a level of micromanaging the units to make them useful, as range usually gets overwhelmed by melee, and battles were normally over in 10 mins.
My only problem with your statement is "proper order of things" as you're trying to impose some rules on priority. :D
One represents love and commitment and the other entertainment? I know being an obsessed sports fanatic takes alot of irrational love of your team and damn obsessive amount of commitment, especially the groupies who travel with the teams. But calling your wife merely entertainment?
I truly think it's important that have the freedom to "idolize" who they want for whatever reasons they want as long as it's not taken too far. Pre-teen girls were idolized in Japan for a decade with mediocre singing or acting abilities...I'm not quite sure why. Some smart people get idolized for their contributions to society and science *shrugs*. The green and gold god of wealth and fortune. Rich or infuential family heirs and heiress get idolized. Some people even idolize their lawns *snickers*. Some idolize video games. All above maybe their spouses, jobs, or basic living conditions. Who's to say they are wrong in what they are idolizing, other than a dysfunctional way of life.
Now your wife or marriage can get boring and unfullfilling, does that mean you should reduce the amount of enjoyment you get from everything else in your life, so your appreciate your wife more than those? That's a pretty sad existance, what's the point in even living at that point.