Not magically less evil. Just legally more liable.
Which is why, I suppose, you own an LLC.
Corporations exist to distance the people who run them from the imaginary "person" of the company they do business under. This way of doing business has its advantages or disadvantages, depending on which side of the desk you sit on.
Actually, it's more likely to make you a loser. Only two candidates with a penis can be said to have 'won', while many others with a penis placed second or lower. The statistics speak for themselves.
The guys who made Half Life 2 and its subsequent games got so many things right. Each episode highlighted a "deeply functional subsystem," yet down at the core was an engrossing game with great play.
They constructed the arenas to highlight each system, but usually it was for cinematic or atmospheric effect. The play, as the saying goes, is the thing. Still, a really good level designer can make you happy to drool over a new feature for a minute or two in between reloads.
In those terms, my purchase of the Core Three D&D manuals was the best entertainment investment of my life.
At ~$80 for the whole package, I've had *years* of fun playing in co-op mode with my friends, every encounter was fresh, the quests were challenging and unexpected, and the monster AI dynamically adapted to my tactics.
Of course, there's the significant lag time of looking up the rules... but at least there are no subscription fees.
I'd add a major rule, based on my experience with Knights of the Old Republic. After watching my character whip ass in lightsaber duels with poise and confidence, he was suddenly a complete klutz at a particular challenge.
The challenge was the podrace. My character has the reflexes of a trained Jedi; I do not. Yet *I* had to drive the pod with my pitiful skills. My character's 18 DEX was nowhere to be seen.
So the new rule is:
In a game where the action is judged by statistics based on the character's abilities, such as a role playing game, never add an arcade element that depends on the player's abilities. Or more generally and colloquially stated: remember who is in the driver's seat for a particular style of gameplay.
Sounds like it's time for an inventory of games in which war has consequences before the "you beat up everybody!" resolution comes about. Just about every game I can think of is positively resolved when you've wiped everyone else off the map, no matter the state of your own backyard.
If you're willing to expend your entire kingdom (or empire, or corporation, or whatever) so that you can crush everyone else, have you really served as a good leader? What games force you to justify that expense?
Reviewers inevitably turn to the wealth of free applications available for Linux. Good and well that they should, but I'm still stuck on the kernel aspect of Linux -- being what Linux is, really.
I'm waiting for the day when I don't have to configure the kernel at all. Or add boot options to grub.conf on my laptop, like noacpi, irqpoll, and the like, just to boot properly. (Not having to include ec_burst=1 on Ubuntu 7.04 was pretty impressive, actually.)
Driver support is strong, but not *there*, as is easily demonstrated in the case of wireless chipsets. Blame the manufacturers, I know, but even my onboard sound card support is shaky, and we've had sound cards for 25 freakin' years.
I mean, laptop sound hardware is generally sub-standard, but it's not *broken*. (I think.)
Solid realtime support across distributions is another pet gripe -- why do my audio apps work when I include the RT module in Gentoo, but suddenly everything goes haywire when I add it in Ubuntu -- if it will even modprobe at all? Studubuntu has it, but what's all this I keep reading about "RT will break ABI compatibility?" Why do I have to use one distro for this and one for that? Isn't the kernel supposed to make that level of software/hardware interaction generic?
I love the Linux, I consider myself proficient with it, and it's *the* OS on all my computers, but I'm still confounded by its holes.
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Not magically less evil. Just legally more liable.
Which is why, I suppose, you own an LLC.
Corporations exist to distance the people who run them from the imaginary "person" of the company they do business under. This way of doing business has its advantages or disadvantages, depending on which side of the desk you sit on.
Fixed that for you.
Of course bloodshed won't work. They don't HAVE blood. That's why we use a stake to the heart or decapitation.
So ... what, exactly? It'll show up as a glowing blue Force ghost and say "I told you it would all work out" every so often?
I'm okay with that.
Actually, it's more likely to make you a loser. Only two candidates with a penis can be said to have 'won', while many others with a penis placed second or lower. The statistics speak for themselves.
They're way ahead of you -- they're already to the phase when you *do* buy 'appropriate' DRM media that won't play.
It's like throwing away money in the prettiest way possible.
The guys who made Half Life 2 and its subsequent games got so many things right. Each episode highlighted a "deeply functional subsystem," yet down at the core was an engrossing game with great play.
They constructed the arenas to highlight each system, but usually it was for cinematic or atmospheric effect. The play, as the saying goes, is the thing. Still, a really good level designer can make you happy to drool over a new feature for a minute or two in between reloads.
Which is why I'm investing in Proton Decay Reactors right now, at the ground floor. I mean, protons practically grow on trees!
We shouldn't be surprised if string theory turns out to be false ... according to this, it's *all* a pack of Lies.
Does this simplified theory of everything run Linux? Or come in Beowulf clusters?
One computer to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them
In the dark world of warcraft
Where the admins lie.
Welcome to Earth! It's a pleasure to see our brethren from Varos are getting involved in local affairs.
I'm not sure the loss of security and reliability is worth the gain in speed.
With the Oval Office up for grabs, why not be sure we've elected the jerk correctly? A few days' wait isn't going to kill anyone.
That'd be the Mic In jack on my laptop. It's even implemented in hardware!
In those terms, my purchase of the Core Three D&D manuals was the best entertainment investment of my life.
... but at least there are no subscription fees.
At ~$80 for the whole package, I've had *years* of fun playing in co-op mode with my friends, every encounter was fresh, the quests were challenging and unexpected, and the monster AI dynamically adapted to my tactics.
Of course, there's the significant lag time of looking up the rules
Sure! Until you run out of bullets. Then all you've got is a funny looking club.
Me, I'm investing in a pair of haz-mat gloves and a machete.
How do they explain the words "THIS IS A FAKE" written in felt tip marker underneath all that aged paint?
I'd add a major rule, based on my experience with Knights of the Old Republic. After watching my character whip ass in lightsaber duels with poise and confidence, he was suddenly a complete klutz at a particular challenge.
The challenge was the podrace. My character has the reflexes of a trained Jedi; I do not. Yet *I* had to drive the pod with my pitiful skills. My character's 18 DEX was nowhere to be seen.
So the new rule is:
In a game where the action is judged by statistics based on the character's abilities, such as a role playing game, never add an arcade element that depends on the player's abilities. Or more generally and colloquially stated: remember who is in the driver's seat for a particular style of gameplay.
Sounds like it's time for an inventory of games in which war has consequences before the "you beat up everybody!" resolution comes about. Just about every game I can think of is positively resolved when you've wiped everyone else off the map, no matter the state of your own backyard.
If you're willing to expend your entire kingdom (or empire, or corporation, or whatever) so that you can crush everyone else, have you really served as a good leader? What games force you to justify that expense?
Reviewers inevitably turn to the wealth of free applications available for Linux. Good and well that they should, but I'm still stuck on the kernel aspect of Linux -- being what Linux is, really.
I'm waiting for the day when I don't have to configure the kernel at all. Or add boot options to grub.conf on my laptop, like noacpi, irqpoll, and the like, just to boot properly. (Not having to include ec_burst=1 on Ubuntu 7.04 was pretty impressive, actually.)
Driver support is strong, but not *there*, as is easily demonstrated in the case of wireless chipsets. Blame the manufacturers, I know, but even my onboard sound card support is shaky, and we've had sound cards for 25 freakin' years.
I mean, laptop sound hardware is generally sub-standard, but it's not *broken*. (I think.)
Solid realtime support across distributions is another pet gripe -- why do my audio apps work when I include the RT module in Gentoo, but suddenly everything goes haywire when I add it in Ubuntu -- if it will even modprobe at all? Studubuntu has it, but what's all this I keep reading about "RT will break ABI compatibility?" Why do I have to use one distro for this and one for that? Isn't the kernel supposed to make that level of software/hardware interaction generic?
I love the Linux, I consider myself proficient with it, and it's *the* OS on all my computers, but I'm still confounded by its holes.
"Throw me the paperwork, I throw you the whip!"
"...therefore information information is being conveyed."
Is that like, twice the amount of information, or redundant information, or what?
Randomizing the order of responses is a good step forward, but it still creates an unintentional bias.
More proper would be to randomize the order of each letter in the responses.
But you also get to be the first person to DIE on Mars, so that's, like, TWO claims to fame!
"Stick to a formula ... but change everything! Also, I like Trek."