"Yes, that is a VERSION of the religion (and not a very popular one anymore). You might want to tell that to your buddies who think all hindus are potheads or whatever, and the fact that fanatical sects of christianity like the Jehovah's Witneesses and the Mormons have gone to far greater extremes of delusional fantasy than any in the hindu religion. "
Who the fuck are "my buddies" who think all Hindus are potheads?
You seem to have stopped reading my post after less then the first line, made up an some wild ass assumption about the rest of my post and then went off on me based on your wild imaginings.
I said I was raised in a VERSION of Hinduism, you even quoted it. So why point it out to me like I said it was the ONLY VERSION or the ONE TRUE VERSION? I don't even follow or consider myself part of that religion any more, thats why I used the past tense to talk about how I was brought up and what I saw in my past.
Wow, my opinion of you just did a 180. Are you upset that I actually lived there for a while and experienced life, not as a tourist but at the same level as most native people? I got wet like everyone else, I got sick with the same things as many people around me. I ate food of no better, possibly worse quality then those around me. I bathed in rivers, attended funerals, and weddings. I worshiped with people who didn't judge me because of my skin color (as far as I could tell).
If you really are Indian, you are not helping your fellow people out. I know there are numerous religions of differing origins practiced in India. I know must English scholars opinions studies and writings are mostly full of bullshit from the colonial era (that whole noble savage thing for instance).
Did you think my post was somehow saying Indians are evil and pushed the Aryan idea on good righteous Christian NAZIs?
Why the fuck are you ranting about Christians at me? I'm at best agnostic, and view organized religion as an evil blight.
You really should pay attention to what people say, stop assuming shit about what they did/didn't say, and don't fucking talk down on people. Treating people who agree with you as if they are totally ignorant and uneducated does not help.
You totally come off in this post as a stupid racist prick (exactly what you accuse others of).
Most likely it has to do with what I grew up with. I was using Xtree from my teens (back in the mid/late 80's) on until that fuckwad Perter Norton bough the developer and killed the product.
He may be a great human being, but he killed my pet utility and that is unforgivable (from a personal standpoint). Back then I purchased the Norton utilities package and they were great tools, but since he killed Xtree, I have not purchased or used a Norton product.
I found UFO: Aftermath to be a fun X-com like game. Not perfect, but much better then that horrible broken X-com:apocalypse. Looks like they are putting out another UFO themed game called Aftershock.
Humm, my favorite thing about Ecco games was the music and "exploration" feel. I wonder if they can create just as an enjoyable game from the perspective of a shark.
It's you SHODAN lovers that sold humanity down the pike.
One thing I always did was talk back to her in both games. The reason I did was because she reminds me a Dalek. Sure her and her monsters are technologically advanced but, either can't defend against a "pathetic creature of meat and bone" or needs the services of the above. If you are so technologically advanced why don't you come down here and stop me or do whatever inane tasks yourself.
I think SHODAN is one of the most memorable, well written, and well voice acted villains from a video game.
I missed the elevator music from SS1, getting in an elevator in that game was like stepping into another world, where you were safe and free from the hell of the station.
Funny thing about SS2 is that early on I had a feeling the person helping me was not a live human or was SHODAN. Mostly because I didn't believe someone else could be accessing systems and hiding out effectively considering what my character as well armed as it was had to go through.
I still freaked out when upon discovering the body of my "helper" and the walls turning into displays showing SHODAN. I wasted a clip from whatever automatic rifle I had at the time. The only other time I got that jumpy in a game was when I played AVP2 the first time and was in the level as a marine, before you actually encounter/fight aliens. I wish more games could do as well as these have.
Are you saying FOX was behind the times with Fastlane? I mean the man thing that I associate with the show (based on the commercials) is a fat black man saying "That is off the hook!"
The only thing the two shows have in common is the chick in a box situation. Even that is rather diferent in detail. Dont go watching Firefly expecting it to be Outlaw Star. You will be massively dissapointed by the lack of spaceships punching each other.
I knew most of this (except about the visit from Nehru). I just could not remember if it originated in India or not. I was raised in Hare Krishna version of Hinduism. I spent time studying Sanskrit (wish I had applied myself harder as it would make learning other languages easier) and schooling in India for a year. I learned a lot good and bad about the country, the different religions (I was mostly in central India around Vrindavan), and it's history.
Your post was very informative on the subject and I sadly can not mod you up.
religion is not really needed. You just need to be a raving asshole. Personally I think a number of people did this for the same reasons so many prosecutors made a name for themselves in the 80's/90's claiming entire towns were group molesting children and ruining as many lives as possible just to gain some votes.
I hope a special hell is created for them as I see no evidence of them being dealt with by the system they abused.
"Glitches" as you call them have been done before.
The group I am in has been playing a star wars setting game for over a year and we are only using D6 (one wild, the rest regular). I didn't pick over all the materials the GM is using so I don't know if he is using stock dice rules. When you role a 1 on the wild die (crit failure) you then get to role it again. If you roll a 6 then you did fail but the failure ends up working out in your favor in some way, any other result end up costing you the value of the wild die and the highest normal die. On the flip side, when you get a 6 on the wild die you can keep rolling the wild die until you don't get a 6.
I saw an astromech get a 29 on 2 dice (one wild) with only a 2d starship gunnery skill.
It's not limited to gamers. Lets better call it Fan Funk or Con funk. I've smelled it at every type of gathering, from a small collage anime club to Worldcon and everything in between.
RIMMER: Ha ha ha. Lister, where's my revision timetable? CHEN: Sir, it's Saturday night! LISTER: Come on, no one works Saturday night! RIMMER: You don't work *any* night. You don't work any *day*! LISTER: Skive hard, play hard! That's our motto! RIMMER: Look, I've got my engineering re-sit on Monday. I don't know anything. Where's my revision timetable? LISTER: Wait, is this the thing in all different colours, with all the subjects divided into study periods and rest periods and self testing time? RIMMER: It took me seven weeks to make it. I've got to cram my whole revision into one night. LISTER: Hang on, is this the thing with the note on it in red which said, "Vital. Valuable. Urgent. Do not touch on pain of death?" RIMMER: Yes! LISTER: I threw it away.
LISTER and his friends crack up.
RIMMER: Ha ha ha ha. Tee hee. Where is it? LISTER: No, I didn't. I pinned it up on the wall. RIMMER: What? Why? LISTER: To dry it out. RIMMER: What do you mean, dry it out? LISTER: Well, I spilled a cold vindaloo on it. Don't worry, it's a little bit red, but you can read most of it, especially if you scrape the lumps off. RIMMER: You spoiled my -- no, I haven't got time. I'm taking learning drugs and all I'm memorising is this conversation. PETERSEN: They're illegal! RIMMER: (Going into a sort of trance) Where's my revision timetable, Lister? It's Saturday night. No one works Saturday night. You don't work any night. You don't work any day. Skive hard, play hard, that's our motto. Lister, where did you put my revision timetable. It's Saturday night. No one works Saturday night. You don't work...
He wanders off into the crowd in a daze, muttering to himself.
Also for people suffering sleap apnea and using CPAP machines booze at night will cause them to be less effective. The sleep doctor told me also to confine my exercise to first thing in the morning as nighttime exercise would disrupt my sleep even more. I was experianceing around 400 interruption events per night, dangerously low blood oxygene levels and other fun stuff. The CPAP machine has given me the ability to have normal sleep patterns.
I have submitted a few, they got slapped down. I can't seem to figure out why, other then I am not in whatever clique is allowed to get submissions posted.
Shit, one time I even went as far as to make sure it was not a dupe (my other were not as well) by searching all of/. and on top of that provide several relevant links in the submission.
One problem I notice in a lot of low end power supplies, is they use sleeve fans instead of bearing fans in the PSU so as soon as 1 particle of dust gets in there they curl up and die.
Many of these chap fan based power supplies are used in micro sized cases where they also serve as the ONLY form of cooling for the CPU and other components in the system.
When the fan goes after a while the caps on the board around the processor get cooked and you are looking at a minimum repair cost of $50.
All this PITA down the road because they use a fan that was less then $1 cost difference per unit (in quantity 10).
Could be worse, The Space Wanderer's ship ran off of destroying entire suns pulled from another dimension, the star drive made a screaming sound that steadily got louder.
Slashdot Mirror
"Yes, that is a VERSION of the religion (and not a very popular one anymore). You might want to tell that to your buddies who think all hindus are potheads or whatever, and the fact that fanatical sects of christianity like the Jehovah's Witneesses and the Mormons have gone to far greater extremes of delusional fantasy than any in the hindu religion. "
Who the fuck are "my buddies" who think all Hindus are potheads?
You seem to have stopped reading my post after less then the first line, made up an some wild ass assumption about the rest of my post and then went off on me based on your wild imaginings.
I said I was raised in a VERSION of Hinduism, you even quoted it. So why point it out to me like I said it was the ONLY VERSION or the ONE TRUE VERSION? I don't even follow or consider myself part of that religion any more, thats why I used the past tense to talk about how I was brought up and what I saw in my past.
Wow, my opinion of you just did a 180. Are you upset that I actually lived there for a while and experienced life, not as a tourist but at the same level as most native people? I got wet like everyone else, I got sick with the same things as many people around me. I ate food of no better, possibly worse quality then those around me. I bathed in rivers, attended funerals, and weddings. I worshiped with people who didn't judge me because of my skin color (as far as I could tell).
If you really are Indian, you are not helping your fellow people out. I know there are numerous religions of differing origins practiced in India. I know must English scholars opinions studies and writings are mostly full of bullshit from the colonial era (that whole noble savage thing for instance).
Did you think my post was somehow saying Indians are evil and pushed the Aryan idea on good righteous Christian NAZIs?
Why the fuck are you ranting about Christians at me? I'm at best agnostic, and view organized religion as an evil blight.
You really should pay attention to what people say, stop assuming shit about what they did/didn't say, and don't fucking talk down on people. Treating people who agree with you as if they are totally ignorant and uneducated does not help.
You totally come off in this post as a stupid racist prick (exactly what you accuse others of).
Most likely it has to do with what I grew up with. I was using Xtree from my teens (back in the mid/late 80's) on until that fuckwad Perter Norton bough the developer and killed the product.
He may be a great human being, but he killed my pet utility and that is unforgivable (from a personal standpoint). Back then I purchased the Norton utilities package and they were great tools, but since he killed Xtree, I have not purchased or used a Norton product.
Thats over a year out of date. A lot of things change in a year.
Let me ask you this.
Have you taken into account the fact the cell processor does not do out of order execution?
I found UFO: Aftermath to be a fun X-com like game. Not perfect, but much better then that horrible broken X-com:apocalypse.
Looks like they are putting out another UFO themed game called Aftershock.
Humm, my favorite thing about Ecco games was the music and "exploration" feel. I wonder if they can create just as an enjoyable game from the perspective of a shark.
It's you SHODAN lovers that sold humanity down the pike.
One thing I always did was talk back to her in both games. The reason I did was because she reminds me a Dalek. Sure her and her monsters are technologically advanced but, either can't defend against a "pathetic creature of meat and bone" or needs the services of the above. If you are so technologically advanced why don't you come down here and stop me or do whatever inane tasks yourself.
I think SHODAN is one of the most memorable, well written, and well voice acted villains from a video game.
I missed the elevator music from SS1, getting in an elevator in that game was like stepping into another world, where you were safe and free from the hell of the station.
Funny thing about SS2 is that early on I had a feeling the person helping me was not a live human or was SHODAN. Mostly because I didn't believe someone else could be accessing systems and hiding out effectively considering what my character as well armed as it was had to go through.
I still freaked out when upon discovering the body of my "helper" and the walls turning into displays showing SHODAN. I wasted a clip from whatever automatic rifle I had at the time. The only other time I got that jumpy in a game was when I played AVP2 the first time and was in the level as a marine, before you actually encounter/fight aliens. I wish more games could do as well as these have.
Check out titles released by Dreamcatcher/The Adventure Company
Try Post Mortem followed by Still Life.
Good sake should not be heated. Heating is to make barely drinkable sake slightly more drinkable.
I can't stand *commander type stuff. I pine for Xtree.
Are you saying FOX was behind the times with Fastlane? I mean the man thing that I associate with the show (based on the commercials) is a fat black man saying "That is off the hook!"
My wife and I are not into Angel/Buffy.
Outlaw Star predates Firefly by many years.
The only thing the two shows have in common is the chick in a box situation. Even that is rather diferent in detail. Dont go watching Firefly expecting it to be Outlaw Star. You will be massively dissapointed by the lack of spaceships punching each other.
I knew most of this (except about the visit from Nehru). I just could not remember if it originated in India or not. I was raised in Hare Krishna version of Hinduism. I spent time studying Sanskrit (wish I had applied myself harder as it would make learning other languages easier) and schooling in India for a year. I learned a lot good and bad about the country, the different religions (I was mostly in central India around Vrindavan), and it's history.
Your post was very informative on the subject and I sadly can not mod you up.
" What I can't understand is why these comments have to come at the expense of Ring TFA."
First you RTFA, then you die.
religion is not really needed. You just need to be a raving asshole.
Personally I think a number of people did this for the same reasons so many prosecutors made a name for themselves in the 80's/90's claiming entire towns were group molesting children and ruining as many lives as possible just to gain some votes.
I hope a special hell is created for them as I see no evidence of them being dealt with by the system they abused.
I could be wrong, but from what I read the concept of Aryan was taken and perverted by Hitler from the Hindus or someone in SE Asia.
"Glitches" as you call them have been done before.
The group I am in has been playing a star wars setting game for over a year and we are only using D6 (one wild, the rest regular). I didn't pick over all the materials the GM is using so I don't know if he is using stock dice rules. When you role a 1 on the wild die (crit failure) you then get to role it again. If you roll a 6 then you did fail but the failure ends up working out in your favor in some way, any other result end up costing you the value of the wild die and the highest normal die. On the flip side, when you get a 6 on the wild die you can keep rolling the wild die until you don't get a 6.
I saw an astromech get a 29 on 2 dice (one wild) with only a 2d starship gunnery skill.
It's not limited to gamers. Lets better call it Fan Funk or Con funk.
I've smelled it at every type of gathering, from a small collage anime club to Worldcon and everything in between.
RIMMER: Ha ha ha. Lister, where's my revision timetable?
CHEN: Sir, it's Saturday night!
LISTER: Come on, no one works Saturday night!
RIMMER: You don't work *any* night. You don't work any *day*!
LISTER: Skive hard, play hard! That's our motto!
RIMMER: Look, I've got my engineering re-sit on Monday. I don't know anything. Where's my revision timetable?
LISTER: Wait, is this the thing in all different colours, with all the subjects divided into study periods and rest periods and self testing time?
RIMMER: It took me seven weeks to make it. I've got to cram my whole revision into one night.
LISTER: Hang on, is this the thing with the note on it in red which said, "Vital. Valuable. Urgent. Do not touch on pain of death?"
RIMMER: Yes!
LISTER: I threw it away.
LISTER and his friends crack up.
RIMMER: Ha ha ha ha. Tee hee. Where is it?
LISTER: No, I didn't. I pinned it up on the wall.
RIMMER: What? Why?
LISTER: To dry it out.
RIMMER: What do you mean, dry it out?
LISTER: Well, I spilled a cold vindaloo on it. Don't worry, it's a little bit red, but you can read most of it, especially if you scrape the lumps off.
RIMMER: You spoiled my -- no, I haven't got time. I'm taking learning drugs and all I'm memorising is this conversation.
PETERSEN: They're illegal!
RIMMER: (Going into a sort of trance) Where's my revision timetable, Lister? It's Saturday night. No one works Saturday night. You don't work any night. You don't work any day. Skive hard, play hard, that's our motto. Lister, where did you put my revision timetable. It's Saturday night. No one works Saturday night. You don't work...
He wanders off into the crowd in a daze, muttering to himself.
Also for people suffering sleap apnea and using CPAP machines booze at night will cause them to be less effective.
The sleep doctor told me also to confine my exercise to first thing in the morning as nighttime exercise would disrupt my sleep even more.
I was experianceing around 400 interruption events per night, dangerously low blood oxygene levels and other fun stuff. The CPAP machine has given me the ability to have normal sleep patterns.
I have submitted a few, they got slapped down. I can't seem to figure out why, other then I am not in whatever clique is allowed to get submissions posted.
/. and on top of that provide several relevant links in the submission.
Shit, one time I even went as far as to make sure it was not a dupe (my other were not as well) by searching all of
One problem I notice in a lot of low end power supplies, is they use sleeve fans instead of bearing fans in the PSU so as soon as 1 particle of dust gets in there they curl up and die.
Many of these chap fan based power supplies are used in micro sized cases where they also serve as the ONLY form of cooling for the CPU and other components in the system.
When the fan goes after a while the caps on the board around the processor get cooked and you are looking at a minimum repair cost of $50.
All this PITA down the road because they use a fan that was less then $1 cost difference per unit (in quantity 10).
Could be worse, The Space Wanderer's ship ran off of destroying entire suns pulled from another dimension, the star drive made a screaming sound that steadily got louder.
What happens when you connect it in series to a oscillation over-thruster? Do I end up with a T.A.R.D.I.S.?
I think the Romulans have prior art.