Yes, it's schtick. And yeah, I guess there's not a lot of competition. The Angry Video Game Nerd would be another example of high quality video game comedy. Talking Classics stands out for the great acting and physical comedy.
I'm not a huge fan of vs. fighters myself. But the Neo Geo is great for all the shooters. Blazing Star, Pulstar, Aero-Fighters, etc. The Metal Slug series is an absolute classic run-n-gun. And there are some good puzzle games on it too. Puzzle Bobble, Magical Drop, and so on. Now I'd never pay the hundreds of dollars necessary to play these at home, but they're lots of fun to play on emulation once in a while.
Keith Apicary is a great character and Nathan (his real name) is a great guy. Search "Talking Classics" on YouTube for some of the best retrogaming comedy around.
We have a password expiration policy at my work. Every time I change my password I have to memorize a new one. So I pick a password that's easy to remember, as such it's also easy to guess. If I could just memorize a password once, and keep it forever I'd be using a password that's essentially random. This policy is nonsense.
That said, if EA is willing to back up two very creative guys who can come up with games like COD
How creative was that really? Medal of Honor did the dramatic war sim first, and it was at least as good. I never understood why CoD got all the attention.
I've known a lot more E burnouts than LSD burnouts. E has this magic the first few times, lots of people end up chasing that. Popping several pills in a night, etc. And there's good reason to believe that it's neurotoxic to serotonergic neurons at high doses. LSD on the other hand is non-toxic. The rates of psychiatric reactions are no higher than the rates of psychosis in the general population, which leads me to believe that if you have a psychotic reaction to LSD you were crazy to begin with. It's really quite safe.
No thank you. 95% of my time is spent in linux. It runs my RAID array, my torrents, I do a lot of emulation on it. A VM just isn't going to cut it. Maybe once a week or so I'll reboot for some modern 3d gaming, and that really isn't that inconvenient.
I've installed Windows 7 on my home PC. Played some games on it. I'm impressed. It's at least as stable as XP, and not noticeably slower.
I still strut around feeling good about using Linux. You don't have to hate one to like the other you know. I wouldn't use Windows every day by choice, only because the command line utilities on Linux are so much more convenient. I like the GUI better too, real virtual desktops, windowshading, the selection buffer, all great. And the repositories are great too.
So yeah, not everyone who likes linux is prejudiced against Microsoft.
1) Kid eats supper, logs into (MMO) 2) Hours roll by 3) Kid glances at clock, notices that it is 1 AM 4) Kid is blacked out from the game 5) Kid switches to game that is not on the list 6) Kid notices the clock says 4 AM 7) Kid elects to get three hours of sleep before school
I have to say that's a pretty bad list. For instance, I've made good arguments here that heroin and alcohol are roughly equal in danger. Or at least, that there's no clear winner. Also, LSD being placed above Ecstacy and other stimulants. There's just no sense in that. LSD has never caused a death by overdose, and no neurotoxicity is known. That's not the case for stimulants.
I think I read this paper when it came out. IIRC one major flaw is that they included addiction potential into the quantification of danger. Addiction itself is not dangerous. That would explain why heroin is at the top of the list. I'm still scratching my head about LSD.
In any case, this just illustrates how hard it is to obectively measure danger on a linear scale. The only real killer is ignorance.
Then there's something wrong with just about everyone, as that's the first association most people have. I even heard them talking about "pads" on NPR the day the iPad was announced.
I think you'll find that in Somalia, you're not as free to do as you please as you think. Somalia is ruled by warlords, which is just another form of government.
Alcohol's a cross between not-that-bad and impossible to regulate.
We seem to be doing a better job of it than heroin.
Heroin is pretty fucking toxic.
Heroin is actually quite non-toxic. If your breathing is supported, you can survive pretty much any level of an opiate. It's not toxic to the liver, or pretty much any other organ.
We're talking a chemical with no benefit, that makes you literally need it all the time to even stay on a normal level once you're hooked
But it's worth mentioning that with dependence comes tolerance. When an opiate addict is maintained on the dose they need, they can carry out an otherwise normal life. Dr. William Halsted, for instance, had a brilliant surgical career and co-founded Johns Hopkins while maintaining himself on morphine. That doesn't happen with alcoholics.
if you cut it off completely after a certain point, you die from withdrawal.
That is simply not true. Unless your health is already seriously compromised it is not possible to die from opiate withdrawal.
Heroin will do it way easy; and the natural course of exposure is to tend towards that addiction, strongly. It's also much easier to overdose.
It's pretty easy to avoid an overdose, if you know what dose you're taking. Problem is, black market heroin is un-measured. Someone who could drop into a pharmacy and pick up a premeasured dose of heroin would be very unlikely to die from overdose.
This is a different problem than liquor, just like carrying a small rocket launcher is a different problem than carrying a 6 bullet revolver.
It's different, but not altogether worse. Heroin is easier to get addicted to, but the addiction is not as bad. Alcohol makes people more violent. Heroin makes people very mellow. It's easier to overdose on heroin, but you don't see the same sort of chronic toxicity you do with alcohol. You can't objectively claim that one is worse than another.
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Even today there's not a real UNIX that runs on any 8-bit platform.
I'll just take this time to point out that I've never heard of anyone selling liquor in front of an elementary school. If you want to get heroin off the streets, put it in well regulated stores instead.
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Yes, it's schtick. And yeah, I guess there's not a lot of competition. The Angry Video Game Nerd would be another example of high quality video game comedy. Talking Classics stands out for the great acting and physical comedy.
I'm not a huge fan of vs. fighters myself. But the Neo Geo is great for all the shooters. Blazing Star, Pulstar, Aero-Fighters, etc. The Metal Slug series is an absolute classic run-n-gun. And there are some good puzzle games on it too. Puzzle Bobble, Magical Drop, and so on. Now I'd never pay the hundreds of dollars necessary to play these at home, but they're lots of fun to play on emulation once in a while.
Keith Apicary is a great character and Nathan (his real name) is a great guy. Search "Talking Classics" on YouTube for some of the best retrogaming comedy around.
We have a password expiration policy at my work. Every time I change my password I have to memorize a new one. So I pick a password that's easy to remember, as such it's also easy to guess. If I could just memorize a password once, and keep it forever I'd be using a password that's essentially random. This policy is nonsense.
I sat through a lot of programmers telling me that it was a joke career path....I have to put in the long hours
So, they were right? Youthful exuberance might keep you going today, but eventually you're really going to want that 40 hour week.
I took a class in religion studies in college. UFO or other paranormal theories would fit right in there.
I could have requested to bring it before a judge but I was told the court fees would be more than paying the fine
Mind boggling how that's not considered unconstitutional. You should never have to pay to exercise your constitutional right to a trial.
That said, if EA is willing to back up two very creative guys who can come up with games like COD
How creative was that really? Medal of Honor did the dramatic war sim first, and it was at least as good. I never understood why CoD got all the attention.
There's no information. These are anonymous sources close to an anonymous coward. Don't take it any more seriously than graffiti on the bathroom wall.
How about Global Thermonuclear War?
I'm not American so I may have misinterpreted what the Registry actually does.
Its main function is to get politicians re-elected for both being "tough on crime" and "thinking of the children".
it would be like finding out the players were rigging our baseball and football games to win bets in Vegas.
And how would that matter?
I've known a lot more E burnouts than LSD burnouts. E has this magic the first few times, lots of people end up chasing that. Popping several pills in a night, etc. And there's good reason to believe that it's neurotoxic to serotonergic neurons at high doses. LSD on the other hand is non-toxic. The rates of psychiatric reactions are no higher than the rates of psychosis in the general population, which leads me to believe that if you have a psychotic reaction to LSD you were crazy to begin with. It's really quite safe.
No thank you. 95% of my time is spent in linux. It runs my RAID array, my torrents, I do a lot of emulation on it. A VM just isn't going to cut it. Maybe once a week or so I'll reboot for some modern 3d gaming, and that really isn't that inconvenient.
I've installed Windows 7 on my home PC. Played some games on it. I'm impressed. It's at least as stable as XP, and not noticeably slower.
I still strut around feeling good about using Linux. You don't have to hate one to like the other you know. I wouldn't use Windows every day by choice, only because the command line utilities on Linux are so much more convenient. I like the GUI better too, real virtual desktops, windowshading, the selection buffer, all great. And the repositories are great too.
So yeah, not everyone who likes linux is prejudiced against Microsoft.
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What has been accomplished?
Because there's SO much to do in South Korea at night.
You might have mistaken South Korea for North Korea.
I have to say that's a pretty bad list. For instance, I've made good arguments here that heroin and alcohol are roughly equal in danger. Or at least, that there's no clear winner. Also, LSD being placed above Ecstacy and other stimulants. There's just no sense in that. LSD has never caused a death by overdose, and no neurotoxicity is known. That's not the case for stimulants.
I think I read this paper when it came out. IIRC one major flaw is that they included addiction potential into the quantification of danger. Addiction itself is not dangerous. That would explain why heroin is at the top of the list. I'm still scratching my head about LSD.
In any case, this just illustrates how hard it is to obectively measure danger on a linear scale. The only real killer is ignorance.
To be fair, he did say "Alcohol will kill you from withdrawal too."
Fortunately both are equally protected by the 2nd Amendment, if you're an American.
Not really. A missile launcher would have been considered munitions by the founding fathers.
Then there's something wrong with just about everyone, as that's the first association most people have. I even heard them talking about "pads" on NPR the day the iPad was announced.
I think you'll find that in Somalia, you're not as free to do as you please as you think. Somalia is ruled by warlords, which is just another form of government.
Alcohol's a cross between not-that-bad and impossible to regulate.
We seem to be doing a better job of it than heroin.
Heroin is pretty fucking toxic.
Heroin is actually quite non-toxic. If your breathing is supported, you can survive pretty much any level of an opiate. It's not toxic to the liver, or pretty much any other organ.
We're talking a chemical with no benefit, that makes you literally need it all the time to even stay on a normal level once you're hooked
But it's worth mentioning that with dependence comes tolerance. When an opiate addict is maintained on the dose they need, they can carry out an otherwise normal life. Dr. William Halsted, for instance, had a brilliant surgical career and co-founded Johns Hopkins while maintaining himself on morphine. That doesn't happen with alcoholics.
if you cut it off completely after a certain point, you die from withdrawal.
That is simply not true. Unless your health is already seriously compromised it is not possible to die from opiate withdrawal.
Heroin will do it way easy; and the natural course of exposure is to tend towards that addiction, strongly. It's also much easier to overdose.
It's pretty easy to avoid an overdose, if you know what dose you're taking. Problem is, black market heroin is un-measured. Someone who could drop into a pharmacy and pick up a premeasured dose of heroin would be very unlikely to die from overdose.
This is a different problem than liquor, just like carrying a small rocket launcher is a different problem than carrying a 6 bullet revolver.
It's different, but not altogether worse. Heroin is easier to get addicted to, but the addiction is not as bad. Alcohol makes people more violent. Heroin makes people very mellow. It's easier to overdose on heroin, but you don't see the same sort of chronic toxicity you do with alcohol. You can't objectively claim that one is worse than another.
Even today there's not a real UNIX that runs on any 8-bit platform.
I'll just take this time to point out that I've never heard of anyone selling liquor in front of an elementary school. If you want to get heroin off the streets, put it in well regulated stores instead.