1) They focus on the fun 2) They get that RPG's require a good combat and/or loot system 3) Story and cinematics aren't relied upon for critical acclaim (which most western RPG's do rely on).
1) How much fun is clicking mindlessly? 2) Clicking mindlessly is a good combat system? 3) Agreed!
The great thing about diablo 1 + 2 was the challenging monsters and the phat loot. All western RPG's have done is bring hollywood to games. Mass effect minus the audio/video and story - the actual game elements (where you participate and have to shoot, not just watch in game cutscenes) is not innovative or creative at all.
It might suprise you to find out that Western RPGs did not being with Mass Effect. In fact, if you read the parent's posts, he specifically calls out Mass Effect as barely even being an RPG.
The games the parent poster wants more of are games like Fallout 1 & 2 (The turn based ones!), Pool of Radiance (the original, not Myth Drannor!), The Bard's Tale (again, the 8-bit original), etc. Complex, challenging, and slow games. Games that you can think about and savor for hundreds of hours. Go play Ultima IV and then come back and tell us how non-innovative western RPGs are.
It depends on how you define the term RPG in relation to computers and computer games, (rather than P&P etc. - (since, no, they're not used the same way to represent the same thing)).
Computer RPGs were invented as a way to capture the pen and paper RPG experience. Any computer RPG that doesn't contain elements that you would find in a pen and paper RPG is not actually an RPG at all.
They have every right not to but it's in my interest if they change, and presumably in their interest to have me as a product
FTFY. Spotify sells your ears to advertisers. It's still in their best interest to keep you, but it's worth keeping in mind on which side their bread is buttered.
Your math is wrong. You have to multiply the potential loss by the chance of loss. Sure, you might be out 600K. But that's only happened to 2 people out of 20 million or so on P2P. So your expected loss over time is $0.60. If you're sure you will gain more than $0.60 worth of value from P2P, then it's a winning bet.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw
Everyone likes a doormat, but nobody likes a squeaky wheel. Guess who gets the grease though.
Or to put it another way, who's the bigger asshole? The guys who crashed the world economy? The guys who refuse to hold the first guys accountable? Or the guys who are upset about the first two groups?
When you don't have any power, what else can you do but be obnoxious?
Violent attacks against peaceful protesters is exactly the kind of police behavior that we usually heavily criticize when they are committed by police in various totalitarian regimes.
Ah, but we're not a totalitarian regime. Therefore we don't commit violent attacks against peaceful protestors. Therefore, if there is any violence, it's because of non-peaceful protestors. Therefore, any action the police take is justified with a nice bit of circular logic on the part of authoritarians.
You can see these thought processes at work in this very thread. Read through it and count the fascists, it's pretty scary.
But what about when protestors decide to walk down a major road in a city, putting themselves in danger from getting hit by cars or creating financial damage by prevented people from accessing business on that street(businesses that they may not even be protesting against). This is the point of permits for protests;
No, that is the point of protests! If you can hold a protest, and not disrupt anything, what pressure do the authorities feel? None whatsoever.
An effective protest must be disruptive, or there's no incentive for anyone to change anything. Any steps the government takes to limit the disruption caused by protests, are in actuality disenfranchising you of one of your most basic rights.
Say I own a small electronic repair store along a major street that also runs past the state capitol. People want to demonstrate against the state government, so thousands of people march down the street, clogging traffic and keeping people from entering my store.
Well, you're going to put a hell of a lot of pressure on your representatives to capitulate and get those protesters off your sidewalk, right? This is how protests work.
There is no way you could justify (morally, ethically, or legally) denying me my right to make a living and feed my family to protest something with which I have had no part in.
What about the millions of people out of work who cannot feed their familys or make a living, only because of government policies. How do you justify denying them their right to protest? It could just as easily be your family, as anyone else. Wouldn't you want the right to protest in that situation?
I'd bet GM will be making an extra large contribution to Schumer's campaign this year. If Schumer was really serious about doing anything but shaking down GM, he would have introduced legislation prohibiting vehicle tracking. But that's not going to happen obviously.
If you've experienced living in a police-state, you're well aware that agents provocateur are standard tools of the trade. What reason do you have to believe that they're not being used here?
Which makes more sense? A peaceful protest being held for a week suddenly turning violent for no apparent reason? Or police tolerating a peaceful protest for a week, at which point they find or make excuses to turn the protest into a riot?
There are quite a few open source projects on bioinformatics.org. Some of these are little more than quick command line tools. Others are entire frameworks. Personally, I use the following tools on a regular basis. Bioconductor (with R), EMBOSS, Primer3, and ImageJ.
Atheist have faith in the lack of God's existence and would love an atheist universe.
This is a frequent misconception. Religious types can't imagine being without faith, so they frequently project their need for faith onto atheists. Atheists don't waste their time believing in the non-existence of god. They just don't believe at all.
Or at least, *I* don't believe at all. I can't speak for other atheists. It's not a doctrine.
If you want to sell something as a medical device, you need FDA approval. You can't even make health promises on a box of Cheerios without FDA approval.
Right at the top of the page they have a line endorsing human rationality. Right next to that is a link to a singularity summit. There is no hint of irony in the juxtaposition. That's a big red flag right there.
If you actually put some thought into it it's a lot easier and cheaper to cook for yourself. Throw a hunk of meat into the oven, and simmer some rice. Walk away, come back 20 minutes later. You're done. Less than 10 minutes actually cooking, and far far cheaper than 5 guys.
Or like the other poster suggested, get a slow cooker. Once or twice a week make up some large batch of food, and freeze it in aliquots. I've got curry, baked beans, spaghetti sauce, and gumbo in my freezer right now. All I have to do is toss it in the microwave and prepare a starch to go with it. About 20 minutes actual work, but you eat 6-8 meals off of it.
Or on the weekend, cook yourself a big roast. Maybe a turkey. This is actually very easy. Just stick it in a bag, stick the bag in the overn, and walk away for a couple hours. The left overs will last most of the week, and you can do lots of things with them. Sandwiches of course. Or throw it in a salad.
You know what's really easy too? Quiche. Just get a pie crust from the store. Toss anything you have in to it, and fill with an egg/milk mixture. Bake it about 45 minutes. Less than 10 minutes actual work.
A lot of vegetables are really easy to make for yourself too. Try doing squash sometime. Just cut it open, remove the seeds, and bake it for an hour. Or microwave it for 10 minutes. Ridiculously easy, and do you have any idea how good squash is? It's really fucking good!
Or Broccoli. Boil water, blanch broccoli for 2 minutes, strain. You're done! You can even just rinse the pot out and put it back on the shelf. Honestly, the idea of paying someone to do something so simple, and get worse results than I could at home is repugnant to me.
As for dishes, there's a lot of good food that can be made in one pot. You don't need to be serving 4 course meals to yourself just to eat well. One pot, a plate and bowl, and your silverware. Is that really going to take you more than 10 minutes to clean? Unless you let your dishes pile up, there should never be that many in a single person household.
Your only barrier to feeding yourself well, cheaply and conveniently, is your own knowledge. If you're constantly looking up recipes and trying to figure out what to do, that can be stressful. But once you have a routine down, and work out of a well stocked kitchen it's all pretty trivial.
I think it is more than a little sad that I have impressed others with my 'cooking skills' by doing little more than opening the package, adding water, and sticking it in the microwave.
I'd be really impressed with your cooking skills if that got you anything other than a steaming bag of soggy corn chips and maybe a damaged microwave.
The figures, as expressed, are precise to only one significant figure. They may have more precise figures, but when written that way only one digit is significant.
Discretion is incompatible with accountability, by definition. If you give people discretion, and then hold them accountable when they use it in a way you don't like, they never really had discretion in the first place. Either there was a rule they should have followed when making the decision, or you're changing the rules ex post facto.
You also state the latter system as if a cop could arbitrarily target, convict, and sentence you. All just legal systems need a defense and appeals process.
This is in fact the case with many poorly enforced laws. Speeding laws are a good example. Enforcement is spotty so everyone speeds. Eventually you end up having to speed just to keep with the flow of traffic, which is the safest thing to do. This gives cops carte blanche to pull over anyone for any reason, and you have no defense because you were in fact speeding.
the supreme court said you can sue if you have suffered serious damages even if the contract said arbitration
So now corporations across the country can steal small sums from millions of people, and none of them can sue because they individually haven't suffered serious damages, and can no longer pool their resources as a class.
What it boils down to is that the Superman III/Office Space scam is de facto legal now. If you're a major corporation, that is.
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1) How much fun is clicking mindlessly?
2) Clicking mindlessly is a good combat system?
3) Agreed!
It might suprise you to find out that Western RPGs did not being with Mass Effect. In fact, if you read the parent's posts, he specifically calls out Mass Effect as barely even being an RPG.
The games the parent poster wants more of are games like Fallout 1 & 2 (The turn based ones!), Pool of Radiance (the original, not Myth Drannor!), The Bard's Tale (again, the 8-bit original), etc. Complex, challenging, and slow games. Games that you can think about and savor for hundreds of hours. Go play Ultima IV and then come back and tell us how non-innovative western RPGs are.
It depends on how you define the term RPG in relation to computers and computer games, (rather than P&P etc. - (since, no, they're not used the same way to represent the same thing)).
Computer RPGs were invented as a way to capture the pen and paper RPG experience. Any computer RPG that doesn't contain elements that you would find in a pen and paper RPG is not actually an RPG at all.
Who said anything about attacking? Exercising our constitutional rights is in no way an attack.
They have every right not to but it's in my interest if they change, and presumably in their interest to have me as a product
FTFY. Spotify sells your ears to advertisers. It's still in their best interest to keep you, but it's worth keeping in mind on which side their bread is buttered.
Your math is wrong. You have to multiply the potential loss by the chance of loss. Sure, you might be out 600K. But that's only happened to 2 people out of 20 million or so on P2P. So your expected loss over time is $0.60. If you're sure you will gain more than $0.60 worth of value from P2P, then it's a winning bet.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw
Everyone likes a doormat, but nobody likes a squeaky wheel. Guess who gets the grease though.
Or to put it another way, who's the bigger asshole? The guys who crashed the world economy? The guys who refuse to hold the first guys accountable? Or the guys who are upset about the first two groups?
When you don't have any power, what else can you do but be obnoxious?
Violent attacks against peaceful protesters is exactly the kind of police behavior that we usually heavily criticize when they are committed by police in various totalitarian regimes.
Ah, but we're not a totalitarian regime. Therefore we don't commit violent attacks against peaceful protestors. Therefore, if there is any violence, it's because of non-peaceful protestors. Therefore, any action the police take is justified with a nice bit of circular logic on the part of authoritarians.
You can see these thought processes at work in this very thread. Read through it and count the fascists, it's pretty scary.
Wealth disparity is irrelevant. If everyone is lifted up (as has indeed been the case),
That has not been the case. We are the first generation of Americans who cannot expect a better standard of living than our parents.
But what about when protestors decide to walk down a major road in a city, putting themselves in danger from getting hit by cars or creating financial damage by prevented people from accessing business on that street(businesses that they may not even be protesting against). This is the point of permits for protests;
No, that is the point of protests! If you can hold a protest, and not disrupt anything, what pressure do the authorities feel? None whatsoever.
An effective protest must be disruptive, or there's no incentive for anyone to change anything. Any steps the government takes to limit the disruption caused by protests, are in actuality disenfranchising you of one of your most basic rights.
Say I own a small electronic repair store along a major street that also runs past the state capitol. People want to demonstrate against the state government, so thousands of people march down the street, clogging traffic and keeping people from entering my store.
Well, you're going to put a hell of a lot of pressure on your representatives to capitulate and get those protesters off your sidewalk, right? This is how protests work.
There is no way you could justify (morally, ethically, or legally) denying me my right to make a living and feed my family to protest something with which I have had no part in.
What about the millions of people out of work who cannot feed their familys or make a living, only because of government policies. How do you justify denying them their right to protest? It could just as easily be your family, as anyone else. Wouldn't you want the right to protest in that situation?
Under current case law the permit system is largely allowed
Current case law is inconsistent with the Constitution.
I'd bet GM will be making an extra large contribution to Schumer's campaign this year. If Schumer was really serious about doing anything but shaking down GM, he would have introduced legislation prohibiting vehicle tracking. But that's not going to happen obviously.
Permits for assembly are in violation of the First Amendment. It's not the protest that's illegal, it's the government itself.
Somehow the "law and order" crowd always exempts itself from following the law.
If you've experienced living in a police-state, you're well aware that agents provocateur are standard tools of the trade. What reason do you have to believe that they're not being used here?
Which makes more sense? A peaceful protest being held for a week suddenly turning violent for no apparent reason? Or police tolerating a peaceful protest for a week, at which point they find or make excuses to turn the protest into a riot?
There are quite a few open source projects on bioinformatics.org. Some of these are little more than quick command line tools. Others are entire frameworks. Personally, I use the following tools on a regular basis. Bioconductor (with R), EMBOSS, Primer3, and ImageJ.
Atheist have faith in the lack of God's existence and would love an atheist universe.
This is a frequent misconception. Religious types can't imagine being without faith, so they frequently project their need for faith onto atheists. Atheists don't waste their time believing in the non-existence of god. They just don't believe at all.
Or at least, *I* don't believe at all. I can't speak for other atheists. It's not a doctrine.
If you want to sell something as a medical device, you need FDA approval. You can't even make health promises on a box of Cheerios without FDA approval.
Right at the top of the page they have a line endorsing human rationality. Right next to that is a link to a singularity summit. There is no hint of irony in the juxtaposition. That's a big red flag right there.
If you actually put some thought into it it's a lot easier and cheaper to cook for yourself. Throw a hunk of meat into the oven, and simmer some rice. Walk away, come back 20 minutes later. You're done. Less than 10 minutes actually cooking, and far far cheaper than 5 guys.
Or like the other poster suggested, get a slow cooker. Once or twice a week make up some large batch of food, and freeze it in aliquots. I've got curry, baked beans, spaghetti sauce, and gumbo in my freezer right now. All I have to do is toss it in the microwave and prepare a starch to go with it. About 20 minutes actual work, but you eat 6-8 meals off of it.
Or on the weekend, cook yourself a big roast. Maybe a turkey. This is actually very easy. Just stick it in a bag, stick the bag in the overn, and walk away for a couple hours. The left overs will last most of the week, and you can do lots of things with them. Sandwiches of course. Or throw it in a salad.
You know what's really easy too? Quiche. Just get a pie crust from the store. Toss anything you have in to it, and fill with an egg/milk mixture. Bake it about 45 minutes. Less than 10 minutes actual work.
A lot of vegetables are really easy to make for yourself too. Try doing squash sometime. Just cut it open, remove the seeds, and bake it for an hour. Or microwave it for 10 minutes. Ridiculously easy, and do you have any idea how good squash is? It's really fucking good!
Or Broccoli. Boil water, blanch broccoli for 2 minutes, strain. You're done! You can even just rinse the pot out and put it back on the shelf. Honestly, the idea of paying someone to do something so simple, and get worse results than I could at home is repugnant to me.
As for dishes, there's a lot of good food that can be made in one pot. You don't need to be serving 4 course meals to yourself just to eat well. One pot, a plate and bowl, and your silverware. Is that really going to take you more than 10 minutes to clean? Unless you let your dishes pile up, there should never be that many in a single person household.
Your only barrier to feeding yourself well, cheaply and conveniently, is your own knowledge. If you're constantly looking up recipes and trying to figure out what to do, that can be stressful. But once you have a routine down, and work out of a well stocked kitchen it's all pretty trivial.
I think it is more than a little sad that I have impressed others with my 'cooking skills' by doing little more than opening the package, adding water, and sticking it in the microwave.
I'd be really impressed with your cooking skills if that got you anything other than a steaming bag of soggy corn chips and maybe a damaged microwave.
The figures, as expressed, are precise to only one significant figure. They may have more precise figures, but when written that way only one digit is significant.
60ns and 900km are both precise to only one significant figure.
This administration of sad clowns, old thieves, and incompetent assholes (except perhaps the finance minister) has to go
The only way I could tell you were talking about Italy, and not the US, is that you excluded the finance minister from the above groups.
Will the translators free work be freely available? If so, then this is great. If not, then there are problems.
Discretion is incompatible with accountability, by definition. If you give people discretion, and then hold them accountable when they use it in a way you don't like, they never really had discretion in the first place. Either there was a rule they should have followed when making the decision, or you're changing the rules ex post facto.
You also state the latter system as if a cop could arbitrarily target, convict, and sentence you. All just legal systems need a defense and appeals process.
This is in fact the case with many poorly enforced laws. Speeding laws are a good example. Enforcement is spotty so everyone speeds. Eventually you end up having to speed just to keep with the flow of traffic, which is the safest thing to do. This gives cops carte blanche to pull over anyone for any reason, and you have no defense because you were in fact speeding.
the supreme court said you can sue if you have suffered serious damages even if the contract said arbitration
So now corporations across the country can steal small sums from millions of people, and none of them can sue because they individually haven't suffered serious damages, and can no longer pool their resources as a class.
What it boils down to is that the Superman III/Office Space scam is de facto legal now. If you're a major corporation, that is.