Actually I'm right twice. Once through being objective, and twice for figuring in advance that I'm going to be modded down to oblivion.
Mind you, I wasn't trolling at all. It's a personal opinion based on past experience. Extremists are bad, no matter which side they are. More so when they're opinion makers. They're the ones digging the hatchet of war up every fucking time.
...the words of a true zealot. Look, nobody's "forcing" anyone to do anything. The freedom is still there. His words reek of fanaticism, sorry but they do.
(yes, I know, unpopular opinion 'round here, feel free to extinguish it as well!)
I am sorry, must have been a language-related misunderstanding. By "road sign" I meant any sign out there, such as speed limit indicators, one-way signs, etc. Any of them.
Most of those you don't even need if you apply common sense or you know what you are doing, but they're still there and useful. Dismissing their presence as "unneeded for professionals" is shallow. Taken to the extreme, you get to that joke saying "all you need as a professional coding is two keys: 0 and 1".
Considering the fact that personal computing, console gaming and computer gaming were ALL invented here....maybe you should stop playing games then.
Yes, much like the Internet was invented by Al Gore. Console gaming was conceived by a German dude (Ralph Baer). But hey, fine, whatever.
Have you ever wondered why? Have you ever thought that the higher prices for console games and hardware is artificial protectionism?
So? There's VAT and other taxes which, lo and behold, are partly used to even out the development discrepancy between EU countries.
your cheap PC games are essentially being subsidized by Americans.
Where the fuck did that retarded idea come from?
From a government owned and/or subsidized ISP?
Nope. It actually is that cheap in my "third-world country" which your fellow Americans were very impressed with when they came here on vacation. My Internet is offered by a privately-owned ISP, which competes with 4 others and they all have coverage - so it's real competition, unlike in, hmm, how should I put it... oh yes, "the country that invented computing".
Wow, talking about that superiority that earned Americans so much stereotyping and hate throughout recent history... you represent it very nicely. Look, when I visit a website I don't give a flying fuck which country it's from. I only care whether it's useful to me. Yes, consoles and console games are expensive around here. Yes, PC games are more widely available and generally much cheaper if you look in the right place. And yes, my 18 dollars a month Gigabit Fiber internet connection allows me to install a large game in 5 minutes.
Depends what your definition of "success" is. Owning a house, a car and being able to sustain your immediate family by yourself is now falling very much into the definition of "successful". 40 years ago it was "standard"; nowadays it's "successful".
No, not generic websites, but the likes of HumbleBundle, BundleStars, GamersGate, Games Planet, GOG, not to mention aggregators such as isthereanydeal.com.
I stopped pirating games a decade ago, when they became legally available in my country at normal prices. Sadly, the same is not valid for music I listen to, and movies were always locked down for home viewing. I'd gladly pay for a virtual cinema ticket to be able to watch recently-released blockbusters from home. I'm sensitive to high volume sound and cinema "3D" with those plastic glasses give me severe headaches - so no cinema for me. I gave it another shot recently, went to watch "valerian and the city of a thousand planets" and came back with tinnitus and a 2-day headache.
Lack of options force me to access torrent sites, where I can find blu-ray quality movies with surround sound and subtitles. If I could pay-per-view for the same quality, I would. But I can't. oh and there's also the "the movie isn't available in your country" bullshit, because some shady distributor signed exclusivity, even though they don't offer streaming service whatsoever.
Just as Steam has sales, PlayStation Store has sales. Consoles also have the "Greatest Hits"/"Player's Choice" rereleases of disc games.
Are there any 3rd party websites selling games at discounts? I wasn't talking about Steam only, I was talking about a whole ecosystem, literally dozens of websites offering games at a discount (shady grey-area websites are not considered, they suck). And then there's gog.com...
And if you live in an area where the best available Internet access is satellite or LTE at $5/GB or more, you'll appreciate the bandwidth savings of disc games.
Thank God, I don't. I love my 18 bucks a month Gigabit Fiber:)
Agreed. Russians are subsidizing dildo manufacturers to sell dildos at far below manufacturing cost for the sole purpose of flooding the American markets with many dildos. Metrosexuals are occupied putting on make-up and stuffing themselves full of dildos. The rest of the population listens to KGB-installed DONALD TRUMP telling lies about how great America is.
Don't know why I had to cite the GP again for you but here goes:)
On the upside, people who died of Carbon Dioxide and/or Carbon Monoxide intoxication look very healthy, because they look ablush. It's because of the heart pumping more blood as the body starves for oxygen.
We'll end up with a very healthy-looking SuperKendall - the fact that he'd be dead is less relevant, after all, looks are what matters, ain't it.
The "crash" started on September 12th its "peak" was on September 15th, when a BTC was traded for a bit below 3K USD. It immediately recovered 3h later and had a dip to around 3500 on September 17th. Right now it's being traded for 3918 USD.
EUR bills are made of plastic. When it burns, it gives a nasty smell and black smoke. It also shrivels and doesn't fully turn into ash, rather sticks to the underlying surface. What should have been done was cut them into very, VERY small pieces using a document destroyer.
The problem isn't the cost itself, necessarily, but the fact that big pharma usually overburden 1st world countries with huge prices for meds and sell cheap somewhere else. I find this ethically wrong.
Valtrex 1000 mg costs a bit over $1 a pill in my country in a brick-and-mortar pharmacy. The average price in the USA is $8.02 according tho this: https://www.accessrx.com/blog/...
My videos aren't monetized. It's a hobby I do for fun. Frankly I have no idea if I am getting any revenue, all I do is upload some personal replays for World of Tanks or highlights from other games I happen to play.
The problem with that argument though is that all pharmaceutical research is bullshit because the company paying for the study and testing their drug clearly wants to be able to sell it.
Pharmaceutical research is very, very strictly watched. The study from TFS clearly is not.
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Actually I'm right twice.
Once through being objective, and twice for figuring in advance that I'm going to be modded down to oblivion.
Mind you, I wasn't trolling at all. It's a personal opinion based on past experience.
Extremists are bad, no matter which side they are. More so when they're opinion makers. They're the ones digging the hatchet of war up every fucking time.
...the words of a true zealot.
Look, nobody's "forcing" anyone to do anything. The freedom is still there.
His words reek of fanaticism, sorry but they do.
(yes, I know, unpopular opinion 'round here, feel free to extinguish it as well!)
I am sorry, must have been a language-related misunderstanding.
By "road sign" I meant any sign out there, such as speed limit indicators, one-way signs, etc. Any of them.
Most of those you don't even need if you apply common sense or you know what you are doing, but they're still there and useful.
Dismissing their presence as "unneeded for professionals" is shallow. Taken to the extreme, you get to that joke saying "all you need as a professional coding is two keys: 0 and 1".
Personally, I think strong typing is vastly overrated and those that need it should not be coding professionally.
Oblig. car analogy: those who need road signs shouldn't be driving professionally.
Considering the fact that personal computing, console gaming and computer gaming were ALL invented here....maybe you should stop playing games then.
Yes, much like the Internet was invented by Al Gore.
Console gaming was conceived by a German dude (Ralph Baer). But hey, fine, whatever.
Have you ever wondered why? Have you ever thought that the higher prices for console games and hardware is artificial protectionism?
So? There's VAT and other taxes which, lo and behold, are partly used to even out the development discrepancy between EU countries.
your cheap PC games are essentially being subsidized by Americans.
Where the fuck did that retarded idea come from?
From a government owned and/or subsidized ISP?
Nope. It actually is that cheap in my "third-world country" which your fellow Americans were very impressed with when they came here on vacation. My Internet is offered by a privately-owned ISP, which competes with 4 others and they all have coverage - so it's real competition, unlike in, hmm, how should I put it... oh yes, "the country that invented computing".
Wow, talking about that superiority that earned Americans so much stereotyping and hate throughout recent history... you represent it very nicely.
Look, when I visit a website I don't give a flying fuck which country it's from. I only care whether it's useful to me.
Yes, consoles and console games are expensive around here. Yes, PC games are more widely available and generally much cheaper if you look in the right place.
And yes, my 18 dollars a month Gigabit Fiber internet connection allows me to install a large game in 5 minutes.
So... he will be "pewnished"?
Truth be told, it satisfies both assumptions of "a long, long time ago" AND "in a galaxy far, far away".
...or, rather, they couldn't do anything with that thought.
Lack of capital, connections or skill could have blocked them off.
Depends what your definition of "success" is.
Owning a house, a car and being able to sustain your immediate family by yourself is now falling very much into the definition of "successful". 40 years ago it was "standard"; nowadays it's "successful".
No, they don't. Otherwise they wouldn't be called "special", would they?
No, not generic websites, but the likes of HumbleBundle, BundleStars, GamersGate, Games Planet, GOG, not to mention aggregators such as isthereanydeal.com.
I stopped pirating games a decade ago, when they became legally available in my country at normal prices.
Sadly, the same is not valid for music I listen to, and movies were always locked down for home viewing. I'd gladly pay for a virtual cinema ticket to be able to watch recently-released blockbusters from home. I'm sensitive to high volume sound and cinema "3D" with those plastic glasses give me severe headaches - so no cinema for me. I gave it another shot recently, went to watch "valerian and the city of a thousand planets" and came back with tinnitus and a 2-day headache.
Lack of options force me to access torrent sites, where I can find blu-ray quality movies with surround sound and subtitles. If I could pay-per-view for the same quality, I would. But I can't. oh and there's also the "the movie isn't available in your country" bullshit, because some shady distributor signed exclusivity, even though they don't offer streaming service whatsoever.
Just as Steam has sales, PlayStation Store has sales. Consoles also have the "Greatest Hits"/"Player's Choice" rereleases of disc games.
Are there any 3rd party websites selling games at discounts? I wasn't talking about Steam only, I was talking about a whole ecosystem, literally dozens of websites offering games at a discount (shady grey-area websites are not considered, they suck). And then there's gog.com...
And if you live in an area where the best available Internet access is satellite or LTE at $5/GB or more, you'll appreciate the bandwidth savings of disc games.
Thank God, I don't. I love my 18 bucks a month Gigabit Fiber :)
OK, now go ahead and calculate games' prices too.
Getting sweet game deals from isthereanydeal.com is valid for PC but not so much for consoles.
Here it is:
Agreed. Russians are subsidizing dildo manufacturers to sell dildos at far below manufacturing cost for the sole purpose of flooding the American markets with many dildos. Metrosexuals are occupied putting on make-up and stuffing themselves full of dildos. The rest of the population listens to KGB-installed DONALD TRUMP telling lies about how great America is.
Don't know why I had to cite the GP again for you but here goes :)
They only attack in large herds.
They produce shitty ecigarettes
FTFY.
Read Pascal's Wager...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
On the upside, people who died of Carbon Dioxide and/or Carbon Monoxide intoxication look very healthy, because they look ablush. It's because of the heart pumping more blood as the body starves for oxygen.
We'll end up with a very healthy-looking SuperKendall - the fact that he'd be dead is less relevant, after all, looks are what matters, ain't it.
The "crash" started on September 12th its "peak" was on September 15th, when a BTC was traded for a bit below 3K USD.
It immediately recovered 3h later and had a dip to around 3500 on September 17th. Right now it's being traded for 3918 USD.
I wouldn't bet on its demise just yet.
EUR bills are made of plastic. When it burns, it gives a nasty smell and black smoke. It also shrivels and doesn't fully turn into ash, rather sticks to the underlying surface.
What should have been done was cut them into very, VERY small pieces using a document destroyer.
The problem isn't the cost itself, necessarily, but the fact that big pharma usually overburden 1st world countries with huge prices for meds and sell cheap somewhere else. I find this ethically wrong.
Valtrex 1000 mg costs a bit over $1 a pill in my country in a brick-and-mortar pharmacy. The average price in the USA is $8.02 according tho this: https://www.accessrx.com/blog/...
That sucks.
My videos aren't monetized. It's a hobby I do for fun.
Frankly I have no idea if I am getting any revenue, all I do is upload some personal replays for World of Tanks or highlights from other games I happen to play.
The problem with that argument though is that all pharmaceutical research is bullshit because the company paying for the study and testing their drug clearly wants to be able to sell it.
Pharmaceutical research is very, very strictly watched. The study from TFS clearly is not.