There are plenty of polls where they ask, "Was Saddam Hussein behind 9/11?" "Is Saddam an ally of Osama?" "How many of the 9/11 highjackers were Iraqi?"
You can guess what the results were.
Is known to have been completely true.
Really? Are we in fantasy al-Qaeda land or palestinians are anti us land? Or do you have some bit of info that the rest of us missed?
Appeal to those who consider themselves too "cool" for video games.
I've always considered myself to "cheap" for consoles since I'm going to own a couple of PCs anyway, but for the first time in my life I'm considering buying one after reading this article.
Yes, turning Numlock off is essential for most roguelike players. OTOH, if you learn the vi keys (only takes a few games to get used to them), you can play on laptops.
I would say that in the age of birth control, dumber, less reliable people and the very religious are more fit in an evolutionary sense.
I'm not sure about the latter sort of people, though. Mormons have an incredible birth rate, but they are actually growing slower than the rest of the population due to people leaving the religion.
The fastest growing religion is Islam, and it's not known (to me) as a religion obsessed with large families.
If I've invested $50 in a game, you can be damn sure I'm going to play it for a few months just to get my money's worth
Sadly I think this *is* insightful becaue so many think the way you do.
The game is a sunk cost. The price you've paid for it has no bearing on how much value you can get out of it.
There may be a game that is so bad that you'll never get $50 worth of entertainment no matter how much you play.
Then consider a merely horrible game where steady playing allows you to eke out $0.50 worth of entertainment a day.
After barely more than three months of playing every single day, congratualtions, you've made your money back, at a huge oppurtinity cost of not playing all the incredibly fun games out there.
Diablo 2 BattleNet chars are deleted after seven days inactivity. I'd only got a chance to play once a week at the most anyhow, so my characters disappear the first weekend I've got something better to do.
I'd have really appreciated an alternate server with more persistance, maybe a bnetd server somewhere would have suited me, but it looks like I may have found out too late.
If it has voice over IP, it will just degenerate into a ham contest, and endless stream of Shatnerian pauses-for-effect, "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor", and horrible Scottish brogues
When folks are talking about probabilities of evolution, they are talking about the probability of a particular outcome given a fixed number of random actions. That is analagous to the probability-per-character interpretation.
No, you can't if the probability of getting a 5 is above zero, you will eventually get a five. The first five, however, may be arbitrarily far down the list, but it will be there.
It's both. But looking at it from Karl's side, he is another example of someone oppressed by the government, in this case a Federal Prosecuter, for speaking freely. It's a much more clear cut example than Joe Wilson.
But look at it from the angle of the prosecuters and the courts, and they're just excersizing their constitutional right to bring traitors to justice.
Somtimes the government just destroys your wife's career, blowing the CIA front company and any operations or sources she may have been involved with, past or present, if they don't like what you write in the papers.
Another little factoid: Most people would gladly through a mother in prison for killing her child, but most Pro-Lifers won't countenance throwing a woman in prison for getting an abortion, even though they want abortion illegal.
Antagonism and Reversal are reduced to mere stubs to drive the platform-based fun.
Dude, every big boss or new type of enemy in a platformer is a reversal
And the last game Maxis produced with antagonism in it was Robosport, and I don't see that mentioned as their greatest achievement.
Maxis games are "Hero vs. Environment" at their most literal. In Sim City, the hero is the city. The antagonists are all those forces that like to see cities fail. Each disaster is a ( potential ) reversal, so is each unexpected swing in economy.
I hate being a Nazi, but I've read this so many times and it's finally got to me: a downside is a flaw, a downfall is something, perhaps a flaw, perhaps not, that is your undoing.
What you are talking about is a downside, not a downfall unless you think it means the end of IM.
Another difference between the two groups is that fish hunting orcas are always chattering amongst themselves, but mammal hunting orcas are very quiet, because their pray is smart enough or has ears enough to pick up on the yammering.
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There are plenty of polls where they ask, "Was Saddam Hussein behind 9/11?" "Is Saddam an ally of Osama?" "How many of the 9/11 highjackers were Iraqi?"
You can guess what the results were.
Is known to have been completely true.
Really? Are we in fantasy al-Qaeda land or palestinians are anti us land? Or do you have some bit of info that the rest of us missed?
I see the same things in reverse, does that mean that right wing bible thumpers who hate Darwin are liberals, too?
Appeal to those who consider themselves too "cool" for video games.
I've always considered myself to "cheap" for consoles since I'm going to own a couple of PCs anyway, but for the first time in my life I'm considering buying one after reading this article.
We don't know how it works, all we know is eight monkeys go into a room and only three come out.
Yes, turning Numlock off is essential for most roguelike players. OTOH, if you learn the vi keys (only takes a few games to get used to them), you can play on laptops.
It just means people are evolving to be Mormons.
I would say that in the age of birth control, dumber, less reliable people and the very religious are more fit in an evolutionary sense.
I'm not sure about the latter sort of people, though. Mormons have an incredible birth rate, but they are actually growing slower than the rest of the population due to people leaving the religion.
The fastest growing religion is Islam, and it's not known (to me) as a religion obsessed with large families.
If I've invested $50 in a game, you can be damn sure I'm going to play it for a few months just to get my money's worth
Sadly I think this *is* insightful becaue so many think the way you do.
The game is a sunk cost. The price you've paid for it has no bearing on how much value you can get out of it.
There may be a game that is so bad that you'll never get $50 worth of entertainment no matter how much you play.
Then consider a merely horrible game where steady playing allows you to eke out $0.50 worth of entertainment a day.
After barely more than three months of playing every single day, congratualtions, you've made your money back, at a huge oppurtinity cost of not playing all the incredibly fun games out there.
Diablo 2 BattleNet chars are deleted after seven days inactivity. I'd only got a chance to play once a week at the most anyhow, so my characters disappear the first weekend I've got something better to do.
I'd have really appreciated an alternate server with more persistance, maybe a bnetd server somewhere would have suited me, but it looks like I may have found out too late.
"Commander Blood"
And through infection...
Whoah, it looks like it's going to complete one full spin in the next decade, that's going to make Y2K look like a walk in the park.
I've done this for a couple of different friends: Tell the guy on the other end that the owner of the account has passed away.
If it has voice over IP, it will just degenerate into a ham contest, and endless stream of Shatnerian pauses-for-effect, "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor", and horrible Scottish brogues
You can shoot teletubbies?
Better yet, if Solaris is free, why can't the linux community just take whatever cool ideas it finds in Solaris and put them into Linux?
When folks are talking about probabilities of evolution, they are talking about the probability of a particular outcome given a fixed number of random actions. That is analagous to the probability-per-character interpretation.
No, you can't if the probability of getting a 5 is above zero, you will eventually get a five. The first five, however, may be arbitrarily far down the list, but it will be there.
It's both. But looking at it from Karl's side, he is another example of someone oppressed by the government, in this case a Federal Prosecuter, for speaking freely. It's a much more clear cut example than Joe Wilson.
But look at it from the angle of the prosecuters and the courts, and they're just excersizing their constitutional right to bring traitors to justice.
Somtimes the government just destroys your wife's career, blowing the CIA front company and any operations or sources she may have been involved with, past or present, if they don't like what you write in the papers.
Another little factoid: Most people would gladly through a mother in prison for killing her child, but most Pro-Lifers won't countenance throwing a woman in prison for getting an abortion, even though they want abortion illegal.
Antagonism and Reversal are reduced to mere stubs to drive the platform-based fun.
Dude, every big boss or new type of enemy in a platformer is a reversal
And the last game Maxis produced with antagonism in it was Robosport, and I don't see that mentioned as their greatest achievement.
Maxis games are "Hero vs. Environment" at their most literal. In Sim City, the hero is the city. The antagonists are all those forces that like to see cities fail. Each disaster is a ( potential ) reversal, so is each unexpected swing in economy.
If you're worried you won't be able to identify your dead relatives, just buy them some dogtags.
I hate being a Nazi, but I've read this so many times and it's finally got to me: a downside is a flaw, a downfall is something, perhaps a flaw, perhaps not, that is your undoing.
What you are talking about is a downside, not a downfall unless you think it means the end of IM.
Some jerkoff asks Tolstoy, "I want to become a writer, what should I do?"
Tolstoy says, "Write."
Another difference between the two groups is that fish hunting orcas are always chattering amongst themselves, but mammal hunting orcas are very quiet, because their pray is smart enough or has ears enough to pick up on the yammering.