Fine, I'll admit to being a psychopath if you admit to being an idiot.
When you put your fee wees above actually being right then you're imposing kindergarten social behavior on adult society at large. You're an ideological child.
Part of being an adult means moving beyond your fucking fee wees and understanding that the material universe doesn't give a flying fuck what ANYONE feels. I have literally nothing but contempt and disgust for your world view.
If it helps you feel like less of a tool to label me with invalid psychological terms that you couldn't hope to diagnose me with over a web conversation... then fine... "doctor"... presume to hold a medical credential we both know you don't have. That just makes you sound all the more desperate, pretensions, and foolish.
I am quite happy just labeling you a "twit". A non-medical derogatory term which I think has been adequately proven both from your own statements and my own illumination of those statements.
Judge away... The presto-intellectual pretensions of childish twits is not to be taken seriously.
You're mistaking concentration of profits with profits in general.
Yes, a single company profits more via a console than does the PC which is a diversified market that no one company really profits from exclusively. However, the collective profits of the PC as a platform vastly dwarf that of the consoles... and again... merely as a gaming platform.
1. Gaming is a big issue with home users. Users that go with MacOS or Linux generally don't care about gaming. Merely choosing windows in the first place often has some roots in the knowledge that it is a superior OS for games merely because most games are written for it.
2. It is very easy to track console sales and console game sales since MS and Sony are aware of every single f'ing one of them since they get a cut of those sales and can track it on their own internal balance sheets. Tracking PC gaming revenue much less profit is very complicated because there are so many more players in the market. Saying PC isn't as profitable would mean you know how much nVidia, AMD, etc make on hardware for gaming, how much Steam makes for gaming, how much GoG makes for gaming, etc... you don't have those stats but even a casual look at the numbers will show you that the PC actually makes a lot more money.
3. If we're talking about profits and not revenue, you need to keep in mind that a lot of that profit is artificial and created through exploitative market tactics like exploiting captive audiences. Forcing users to pay a fee to play online games for example is just one thing you find on consoles that is exploiting mother fucking stupid console players. At a certain point, you're going to be arguing that you're better because you get raped harder by MS and Sony... if that's where you want to take this... I'll just concede you have a point... console players are idiots.
A good point... however, that doesn't speak to the assertion that the future is tablets. That merely would suggest that YOUNG children would be encouraged to play tablets until they are sophisticated enough to play PC.
The "I can't get this game on the pc" argument is largely pointless.
First, the PC has vastly more games on it than does any console. So I can respond to any claim about it not having a game with 10 games you can't get on your console.
Second, in most cases a game is not on the PC because the console company paid the developer to not release it on the PC. This is what is known as a paid exclusive. Effectively MS or Sony are holding your game hostage and saying that you can't play it unless you use their systems. The PC does not do that and by buying a console for this reason you are rewarding this hostage taking practice. The mere fact that console makers find this profitable should be evidence that they're fucking you on the price as well. Which means they're fucking you twice both because they're forcing you to buy a system you wouldn't buy otherwise and then using their control over that platform to fuck you again. If you buy into it then you're either an idiot or you like getting ripped off.
Politeness is overrated. I can't tell you how many dumb ideas survive in the wild because people are too polite to label a shit idea a shit idea.
I'm not a fan of politeness. You don't see it survive in anything serious. Business... people aren't polite when real money is on the table. Engineering... a dumb idea is a dumb idea and the people that offer them up are told they are dumb for offering them and should feel dumb.... same for medicine, science, war, etc... where you get dumb ideas surviving is when you have lots of idiots to coddle. Politics often have dumb ideas that survive because dumb people vote. And then you get dumb ideas in marketing because dumb people buy stuff.
But outside of that... generally dumb ideas are labeled for what they are... fucking stupid.
Yes, I do see what you did there... you just made it clear that you are more interested in the way I said something rather than what I said. You made it clear that you're one of those people that wants people to be nice rather than to be right.
Here is where you're wrong... the PC is the superior gaming platform. That's just a fact. It has the most compatibility with the most gaming software. There is no rival. Linux is starting to get some games on it via Valve but its a shadow of the PC and frankly most of the best gaming you will do on Linux will happen through emulators.
Now here you're not going to admit you're wrong... here you're going to double down on being upset I was mean not just to console peasants but now to you. And what you won't get... even though I am telling you right here and now... what you won't get is that in your very doubling down you'll merely prove me right.
I'll give you the last word. I don't find discussions like this profitable as they have no intellectual basis. Its just a shitshow about why its bad for people to hurt each other's fee fees. I don't care about your fee fees. You want to say that makes me a bad person... fine. I don't care.
PC gaming is a larger market than all other platforms... COMBINED.
The problem is that no one owns it and so big companies like to push the notion that the PC is shit. They talk about Xbox or PS4 or mobile and ignore that while there are lots of people that do that, it isn't where the meat and potatoes are of the gaming world.
Mobile gaming being the future? F'ing candy crush? Okay. Believe what you like there.
PS/Xbox is the future? Even industry insiders are saying that the consoles have maybe one or two more generations left in them at most.
The PC however... never been stronger. So by all means... keep shitting on it.
It makes about as much sense as those dumb shit articles that were saying that business was going to stop using desktop computers and shift entirely to web applications on phones and ipads. These are the sorts of comments you expect from people that don't actually know what they're talking about.
If you understand gaming then you understand that the PC dominates and you understand why.
If you understand office programs... word processors, spread sheets, databases... then you know the desktop PC isn't going anywhere.
The people that suggest otherwise are clueless media nitwits or lying through their teeth corporate trolls trying to get people to use their crippled systems where they can jack up costs for no reason.
Cue console peasants telling me why consoles are great... I'd love to hear you so much as try you filthy fucking animals.
there's no other option. You can't have a search engine show only the least common denominator of information permitted by any country. Some country always wants something blocked. Add them all up and the internet will be sanitized and thus google itself will be a useless search engine with other engines being superior.
However merely blocking france isn't enough. This needs to be taken a step farther. We need a catalog of everything france wants blocked... and then that needs to be separately hosted such that JUST the blocked or proposed blocked content is highlighted.
Do this and the effort to memory hole information in this method will backfire because attention will be drawn to censored information.
Thus france and any other like minded power will be educated that attempting to censor content means that that content gets megaphoned.
... email address. I have many email addresses and I don't register anywhere with one that anyone i know in real life would recognize.
Since you apparently didn't take that precaution, the solution is to kill that identity or embrace it.
You kill the identity by going dark on it and creating another that cannot be traced and is not associated with the previous identity. Then you can participate on the forum etc using that new identity.
People will forget the old one and eventually stop talking to you on it.
This is one of the reasons I use email clients. It allows me to check 10 different email addresses at once. Webmail is shit.
The alternative is to embrace the new identity. You say "Yeah, I am bob... I live here... deal with it." This will restrain you to some extent since you're going to have to not say things that you'll regret later. However, it is also powerful to be out in the open as well.
Depends on what the forum is... is this for child porn or something? what are you doing on this forum?
Look, if they kept their ads to non-blinking, non-animated, and non-offensive ads then I'd not use ad block.
On youtube DoubleClick keeps trying to sell me something to do with some horrible disease involving really gross looking parasites. And so if I disable adblock on youtube I see these really gross "something awful" type pictures of gross shit. That's on fucking youtube.
I go to some newsites and I get auto playing ad movies.
And then there are lots of sites that have nested javascript which is javascript inside of java script inside of javascript... and all of that makes the pages load slowly to say nothing of doing all sort of weird shit.
Look...
1. If you want ads... I want nothing beyond a jpg. No gifs. No Flash. Nothing that moves.
2. If you want ads... do not annoy me with offensive ads. If I see ads for penis pills, women showing me their vaginas as if I need an add to find porn, or whatever the fuck that image is that double click keeps throwing at me on youtube... I will enable ad block. No hesitation, no mercy, no remorse.
This is why people skip ads anywhere. They get too pushy and people respond "oh really!?"
"" He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. ""
Not exactly an impartial source there, sport.
Suck on the barrel and pull the trigger. You're wasting my time with your stupidity.
I didn't say welfare. I said scamming and fraud. Learn to read or don't presume to type at me.
I will not respond to further posts in this sub thread. You had your chance... and you outed yourself as a moron. Try harder next time and be glad you're signing in as anonymous otherwise I'd know you were a moron the next time without even having to read your post.
You think a product the government invents out of nothing that the government forces you to buy through a market the government forces you to use at prices the government sets... is a free market?
You're a moron. No really. You're actually stupid. Kill yourself.
Everything has been blamed on climate change at one point or another. The idiotic conflations of issues to make climate change relevant are endless.
So saying "well auditing Al Gore can't cause global warming"... I ask you... how do you know? If climate change can cause an endless series of things that it obviously can't... then why not something else it obviously has nothing to do with?
Ehm?
Intellectual integrity and self consistency... Do you have any?
Its not about convincing me. Its about a court of law.
A RICO investigation is going to mean either people are found innocent or guilty.
Period.
You want to pull that trigger and expose the Federal Grant programs relationship with the universities as relates to political advocacy... Lets do it.
You want Al Gore's shenanigans to get gone through with a fine tooth comb? Lets do it.
You want the campaign donations and advoacy from climate with the congress to get audited? Lets do it.
You want the UN Climate panel to get audited? Let do it.
What are you going to do in response? Audit some skeptic scientists that probably had their careers hurt more than helped by expressing their opinions?
You're going to go after some oil companies for... whatever?
Friend, if you don't know you'd get burned more by this process than me... then I am DOUBLY interested in you pulling that trigger. The consequences will be priceless.
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Fine, I'll admit to being a psychopath if you admit to being an idiot.
When you put your fee wees above actually being right then you're imposing kindergarten social behavior on adult society at large. You're an ideological child.
Part of being an adult means moving beyond your fucking fee wees and understanding that the material universe doesn't give a flying fuck what ANYONE feels. I have literally nothing but contempt and disgust for your world view.
If it helps you feel like less of a tool to label me with invalid psychological terms that you couldn't hope to diagnose me with over a web conversation... then fine... "doctor"... presume to hold a medical credential we both know you don't have. That just makes you sound all the more desperate, pretensions, and foolish.
I am quite happy just labeling you a "twit". A non-medical derogatory term which I think has been adequately proven both from your own statements and my own illumination of those statements.
Judge away... The presto-intellectual pretensions of childish twits is not to be taken seriously.
Wrong.
You're mistaking concentration of profits with profits in general.
Yes, a single company profits more via a console than does the PC which is a diversified market that no one company really profits from exclusively. However, the collective profits of the PC as a platform vastly dwarf that of the consoles... and again... merely as a gaming platform.
http://jonpeddie.com/press-rel...
1. Gaming is a big issue with home users. Users that go with MacOS or Linux generally don't care about gaming. Merely choosing windows in the first place often has some roots in the knowledge that it is a superior OS for games merely because most games are written for it.
2. It is very easy to track console sales and console game sales since MS and Sony are aware of every single f'ing one of them since they get a cut of those sales and can track it on their own internal balance sheets. Tracking PC gaming revenue much less profit is very complicated because there are so many more players in the market. Saying PC isn't as profitable would mean you know how much nVidia, AMD, etc make on hardware for gaming, how much Steam makes for gaming, how much GoG makes for gaming, etc... you don't have those stats but even a casual look at the numbers will show you that the PC actually makes a lot more money.
3. If we're talking about profits and not revenue, you need to keep in mind that a lot of that profit is artificial and created through exploitative market tactics like exploiting captive audiences. Forcing users to pay a fee to play online games for example is just one thing you find on consoles that is exploiting mother fucking stupid console players. At a certain point, you're going to be arguing that you're better because you get raped harder by MS and Sony... if that's where you want to take this... I'll just concede you have a point... console players are idiots.
A good point... however, that doesn't speak to the assertion that the future is tablets. That merely would suggest that YOUNG children would be encouraged to play tablets until they are sophisticated enough to play PC.
And you can't get killing floor 2 on xbox.
The "I can't get this game on the pc" argument is largely pointless.
First, the PC has vastly more games on it than does any console. So I can respond to any claim about it not having a game with 10 games you can't get on your console.
Second, in most cases a game is not on the PC because the console company paid the developer to not release it on the PC. This is what is known as a paid exclusive. Effectively MS or Sony are holding your game hostage and saying that you can't play it unless you use their systems. The PC does not do that and by buying a console for this reason you are rewarding this hostage taking practice. The mere fact that console makers find this profitable should be evidence that they're fucking you on the price as well. Which means they're fucking you twice both because they're forcing you to buy a system you wouldn't buy otherwise and then using their control over that platform to fuck you again. If you buy into it then you're either an idiot or you like getting ripped off.
Politeness is overrated. I can't tell you how many dumb ideas survive in the wild because people are too polite to label a shit idea a shit idea.
I'm not a fan of politeness. You don't see it survive in anything serious. Business... people aren't polite when real money is on the table. Engineering... a dumb idea is a dumb idea and the people that offer them up are told they are dumb for offering them and should feel dumb.... same for medicine, science, war, etc... where you get dumb ideas surviving is when you have lots of idiots to coddle. Politics often have dumb ideas that survive because dumb people vote. And then you get dumb ideas in marketing because dumb people buy stuff.
But outside of that... generally dumb ideas are labeled for what they are... fucking stupid.
Yes, I do see what you did there... you just made it clear that you are more interested in the way I said something rather than what I said. You made it clear that you're one of those people that wants people to be nice rather than to be right.
Here is where you're wrong... the PC is the superior gaming platform. That's just a fact. It has the most compatibility with the most gaming software. There is no rival. Linux is starting to get some games on it via Valve but its a shadow of the PC and frankly most of the best gaming you will do on Linux will happen through emulators.
Now here you're not going to admit you're wrong... here you're going to double down on being upset I was mean not just to console peasants but now to you. And what you won't get... even though I am telling you right here and now... what you won't get is that in your very doubling down you'll merely prove me right.
I'll give you the last word. I don't find discussions like this profitable as they have no intellectual basis. Its just a shitshow about why its bad for people to hurt each other's fee fees. I don't care about your fee fees. You want to say that makes me a bad person... fine. I don't care.
http://jonpeddie.com/press-rel...
any moron can plug a laptop into a tv...
and we're done. Get your last word in... console peasant nonsense disgusts me.
http://jonpeddie.com/press-rel...
Show you?... any gaming laptop... here you say "it isn't 400 dollars"... it also is more than just a gaming machine.
So the cost is the cost of a computer + a gaming machine.
800 dollars can get you a gaming laptop.
12 year olds can handle it.
Last comment. I'm not interested in the issue with you.
console is just a limited pc... if you want to pay more than pc prices for less than a pc... waste your money. its a dumb choice for dumb people.
if you can't handle a PC for gaming effortlessly then you have no business commenting on /.
Get your monkey console peasant ass out of here.
12 year olds can manage a PC... if you're dumber than a 12 year old... then GG noob.
http://jonpeddie.com/press-rel...
PC gaming is a larger market than all other platforms... COMBINED.
The problem is that no one owns it and so big companies like to push the notion that the PC is shit. They talk about Xbox or PS4 or mobile and ignore that while there are lots of people that do that, it isn't where the meat and potatoes are of the gaming world.
Mobile gaming being the future? F'ing candy crush? Okay. Believe what you like there.
PS/Xbox is the future? Even industry insiders are saying that the consoles have maybe one or two more generations left in them at most.
The PC however... never been stronger. So by all means... keep shitting on it.
It makes about as much sense as those dumb shit articles that were saying that business was going to stop using desktop computers and shift entirely to web applications on phones and ipads. These are the sorts of comments you expect from people that don't actually know what they're talking about.
If you understand gaming then you understand that the PC dominates and you understand why.
If you understand office programs... word processors, spread sheets, databases... then you know the desktop PC isn't going anywhere.
The people that suggest otherwise are clueless media nitwits or lying through their teeth corporate trolls trying to get people to use their crippled systems where they can jack up costs for no reason.
Cue console peasants telling me why consoles are great... I'd love to hear you so much as try you filthy fucking animals.
there's no other option. You can't have a search engine show only the least common denominator of information permitted by any country. Some country always wants something blocked. Add them all up and the internet will be sanitized and thus google itself will be a useless search engine with other engines being superior.
However merely blocking france isn't enough. This needs to be taken a step farther. We need a catalog of everything france wants blocked... and then that needs to be separately hosted such that JUST the blocked or proposed blocked content is highlighted.
Do this and the effort to memory hole information in this method will backfire because attention will be drawn to censored information.
Thus france and any other like minded power will be educated that attempting to censor content means that that content gets megaphoned.
... email address. I have many email addresses and I don't register anywhere with one that anyone i know in real life would recognize.
Since you apparently didn't take that precaution, the solution is to kill that identity or embrace it.
You kill the identity by going dark on it and creating another that cannot be traced and is not associated with the previous identity. Then you can participate on the forum etc using that new identity.
People will forget the old one and eventually stop talking to you on it.
This is one of the reasons I use email clients. It allows me to check 10 different email addresses at once. Webmail is shit.
The alternative is to embrace the new identity. You say "Yeah, I am bob... I live here... deal with it." This will restrain you to some extent since you're going to have to not say things that you'll regret later. However, it is also powerful to be out in the open as well.
Depends on what the forum is... is this for child porn or something? what are you doing on this forum?
So I need to presume what he says is rational even if nothing in his post would suggest that?
Yet you're not obligated to presume what I say is rational even though my own post is quite sound and self consistent?
Nice double standards you have there, fuckwit.
Kill yourself.
I also love that you're still presuming to judge my record because I login while you fuckwits can't be audited because you stay AC.
You can't judge my history because you hide yours. To do otherwise is moronically hypocritical. Which is fitting because you're a moron too.
Look, if they kept their ads to non-blinking, non-animated, and non-offensive ads then I'd not use ad block.
On youtube DoubleClick keeps trying to sell me something to do with some horrible disease involving really gross looking parasites. And so if I disable adblock on youtube I see these really gross "something awful" type pictures of gross shit. That's on fucking youtube.
I go to some newsites and I get auto playing ad movies.
And then there are lots of sites that have nested javascript which is javascript inside of java script inside of javascript... and all of that makes the pages load slowly to say nothing of doing all sort of weird shit.
Look...
1. If you want ads... I want nothing beyond a jpg. No gifs. No Flash. Nothing that moves.
2. If you want ads... do not annoy me with offensive ads. If I see ads for penis pills, women showing me their vaginas as if I need an add to find porn, or whatever the fuck that image is that double click keeps throwing at me on youtube... I will enable ad block. No hesitation, no mercy, no remorse.
This is why people skip ads anywhere. They get too pushy and people respond "oh really!?"
Its only ironic from the perspective of robert Reich who you are quoting there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
""
He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.
""
Not exactly an impartial source there, sport.
Suck on the barrel and pull the trigger. You're wasting my time with your stupidity.
I didn't say welfare. I said scamming and fraud. Learn to read or don't presume to type at me.
I will not respond to further posts in this sub thread. You had your chance... and you outed yourself as a moron. Try harder next time and be glad you're signing in as anonymous otherwise I'd know you were a moron the next time without even having to read your post.
You think a product the government invents out of nothing that the government forces you to buy through a market the government forces you to use at prices the government sets... is a free market?
You're a moron. No really. You're actually stupid. Kill yourself.
Are you so sure?
Things that have been blamed on global warming:
Two headed frogs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews...
Teenage prostitution.
http://www.trust.org/item/?map...
Everything has been blamed on climate change at one point or another. The idiotic conflations of issues to make climate change relevant are endless.
So saying "well auditing Al Gore can't cause global warming"... I ask you... how do you know? If climate change can cause an endless series of things that it obviously can't... then why not something else it obviously has nothing to do with?
Ehm?
Intellectual integrity and self consistency... Do you have any?
Its not about convincing me. Its about a court of law.
A RICO investigation is going to mean either people are found innocent or guilty.
Period.
You want to pull that trigger and expose the Federal Grant programs relationship with the universities as relates to political advocacy... Lets do it.
You want Al Gore's shenanigans to get gone through with a fine tooth comb? Lets do it.
You want the campaign donations and advoacy from climate with the congress to get audited? Lets do it.
You want the UN Climate panel to get audited? Let do it.
What are you going to do in response? Audit some skeptic scientists that probably had their careers hurt more than helped by expressing their opinions?
You're going to go after some oil companies for... whatever?
Friend, if you don't know you'd get burned more by this process than me... then I am DOUBLY interested in you pulling that trigger. The consequences will be priceless.