So if I obey the law about not killing people, but I find out some guy I know is a killer, it's "uncool" to turn the guy in? am I being a mini Hitler (nice Godwin) because I was so uncool as to judge someone for not following the same laws I do?
Frankly I would welcome automatic ticketing of speed violations, bet you dont have the balls to put yourself up against that level of enforcement. If I ever have a need for speed, it's because I'm in an ambulance and they are allowed to.
If I see someone drive off from the gas pump and happen to notice the license plate, I should not give it to the store when they ask if anyone saw it because "it's not my business"?
Should I not report a robbery in progress across the street because "it's not my business"?
If someone is being assaulted do you just walk on by because "it's not your business"?
If I catch wind someone is spiking drinks to rape someone do you just go on because "it's not your business"?
Sorry to make this sound a little like "when did you stop beating your wife" but it seams a large number of/. posters seem to think it's ok as long as you don't get caught and you should never have to answer for crimes committed that you get away with.
What level of illegal activity actually becomes your business? Only when it directly affects you?
I bet you would be singing a different tune had you gone into the store that video card was returned to, bought it thinking it was a $450 video card and got instead the low end POS he put in. Imagine you did that and when you came back claiming the product in the box was not the product that was supposed to be in the box, I bet the store would say you switched the item to steal it from them.
All the people (mostly seem to be grade schoolers and high schoolers who think they have all the answers) denouncing this person for reporting a crime need a reality check. Maybe if they spend a few years with people trying to scam them every way possible all day long they might wake up.
I do agree with some of the posters who say he should have (I don't remember him saying if he did or not) talked to the guy first and given him a chance to come clean himself, but from my experiences as and with a teenager, nothing would have come from it and the end result would have been the same.
I think he is implying that there would be less PS2 fraud if SONY didn't make shit consoles (I mean part/design quality). See my previous post about the subject in this topic. I think that kind of fraud is bad, but SONY set themselves up for it by not building a quality piece of hardware, it's so shitty there have been twelve versions. All of them break. I'm on my 3rd one, they don't get abuse or dropped and are in a clean smoke free environment. I don't use them for DVD playback or anything weird like pour molten lead in them.
Retailers are using thermal paper not to reduce fraud but to fuck over customers who buy from them. Thermal tech should be banned and using it should get the death penalty.
If you think I am being unreasonable, just you wait until the fate of a multi thousand dollar purchase is resting on a thermal receipt and even though you filed it safely it's now blank and the company claims they no longer have to honor the agreement because you no longer can prove you bought the item.
All that could be avoided if SONY stopped using shit parts, designs, and manufacturing.
I don't do it (the fraud), and never would, but I have 3 PS2s and 2 of em are dead until I can re-calibrate the lasers (or replace them depending on how bad they have gotten).. They have never been dropped/abused, never used to watch movies. A console should last at least 10 years (Turbo Duo and Sega CD and Saturn are still going strong) if taken good care of and baring any component failures.
They arise because people saw god in everything (Shinto and animism), therefore anywhere can be a temple and anyone can worship at any time. This means there is no need of a special class of person. However some religions that see god in everything (Hinduism/Hare Krishna) find a way to create a class of special person. They built the caste system and a thing called disciplic succession for the priest class. Disciplic succession works by claiming we can not directly approach god, but must approach a priest who in turn approaches his master, who passes the prayer or worship up the chain (to previous masters who are no longer on this earth) until it finally reaches whomever the prayer/sacrifice was meant for. The problem I have with disciplic succession is that through the holy books and epics of Hinduism and the Hare Krishnas, countless times a individual not of the priest class calls upon gods offer prayers and gets results without any of the political BS that arises out of disciplic succession.
YMMV and apologies to any ISKCON members who may be reading this, but your leaders really fucked thing up for a LONG time.
Unless you are into extreme body modification peircings close up after time. As for tattoos I can see someone regretting bad choices down the line, but they are not impossible to get rid of.
I'm not a fan of rap music, but just like all video games are not about killing hookers, all rap is not about doing drugs and guns and how great it is to be a gangster.
The early rap I heard had none of that, and quite often was speaking against things like drug abuse and domestic violence, as well as other issues in life.
I think the qualities you associate with rap came from the "gangster rap" side that did become quite popular, but are not all that there is.
I dunno, some people view the instrument makers as gods of cool, they make the things that the cool musicians play. Like Hephaestus forging items of great power/splendor for mortals smiled upon by the favor of the gods. Ask people about about Antonio Stradivari, or even more recent makers like Les Paul or Ernie Ball. Usually the people who know/revere those makers are musicians or really into music, but some are known wide just by reputation.
Sadly "Ramble On" is the only one I can think of to listen to while playing LOTR games or is it better for GTA, I haven't decided exactly which it is more appropriate.
I can think of plenty of games that are not intended for you to play as an anti-hero but you can. People want choices, and sometimes they want to explore the dark part of themselves (we all have that dark part) in a way that will not harm others. God games are a type that people usually turn to evil as entertainment. I don't think you can count the number of people who have done some evil serial killer level stuff to SIMS.
Take Knights of the old republic. You are constantly confronted with situations that you can choose to be evil or good. Some are also quite morally ambiguous. Frankly I have never had the nerve to play as a dark sider, I don't have the stomach for even virtually engaging in the racism, hate and brutal treatment of others that you have dialog options for in the games.
For some reason I can play and enjoy being Tommy Vercetti (even if I think he should do things somewhat differently) or CJ in San Andreas. In the case of the latter things are a bit more muddy, as you get framed for a crime you didn't commit by dirty cops, get caught up in a gang/vengeance war, and try to get rid of drug dealers. CJ is a much more conflicted (he claims to have gone straight before returning for the funeral)and complex character then Tommy because Tommy just went and did his criminal thing after getting out of prison and AFAIK didn't change at all. From what I could tell Tommy cared for no one and used people around him (probably a bit cynical from prison) while CJ seems to care about people and does not view them as objects to be used.
When I was a kid, besides playing Coleco Vision and Atari, we played Cops and Robbers (based off real situations, ohhh scary) and other violent "role playing", we pretended to violently kill each other. IMO if that didnt cause us to be killers then no amount of Manhunt, GTA, Streets of rage or Double Dragon will.
So explain how playing GTA will turn you into an agressive violent killer while actually simulation IRL killing your friends wont?
If anything makes people agressive and violent it's the culture we have in school (and have had since before I was born) that sports are everything, to be as agressive as possible because it's all about you the "star" player, and the same at home with bad parents abusing the kids to perform for them what they could not do.
As someone who has played through Manhunt I'd say it has about tas much story/plot as say the book Running Man or one of the GTA games (like Vice City) I have not fininshed San Andreas yet.
"Gyrating Hips" are old. "Invader Blood marching through your vains like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command you. Do not ignore your veins!" are the new in thing. Or so I'm told by a perfectly normal human worm child with plentiful organs.
Why are you so hung up on smoking? It's not the only way. One can eat it, and (I did not know this) someone else mentioned you can vaporize it.
Hemp is a good fiber (but not for optics, I have never seen that claim) and frankly cheap to produce for things like paper and cloth/rope. You can even get types that produce little to no THC so no need to worry about people having a good time. Oil from the plant is also useful and something you can get out of it while you are processing it for the other uses above.
I'm not saying it is some magical weed that will solve humanities problems, but it could be useful.
Ahh, but with xXxenophile (in my experience) you actually could get a whole set easily compares to anything coming out of WOTC.
The last standard for if a collectible game was worth it was that you could get a whole set (or within a card or two) from single box of booster packs. This worked back in the ERA of baseball cards (do they even make those anymore).
"The Revolution may well not be capable of putting out the sheer processing or graphical rendering power of the PS3 or xbox360 which would hinder any porting of the standard multiplatform fare."
And monkeys may fly out of my ass. do you have any real specs or performance comparisons based on finalized hardware and cross platform optimized for each console games?
Do you actually believe the hype? That the PS3 will be 50 bazillion times as powerful as Deep Though, and that the Xbox360 will be comparable to the processing power of an obscure supercomputer called "The Earth".
Realistically, looking at all the designs, I see 3 consoles that are near enough to each other that they may be indistinguishable in what they can do and how it will look. That's why they are working so hard to hype, network this, HDD that, and controller other thing.
I dont care what console it comes out for but I hope we get an update on Skygunner, or maybe the PS3 can play it without having to use the code that disables all visuals so the framerate does not drop into slideshow mode. It's a great game that IMO should have been ported to the Gamecube like Ikurga was (DC version suffered slowdowns).
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So if I obey the law about not killing people, but I find out some guy I know is a killer, it's "uncool" to turn the guy in? am I being a mini Hitler (nice Godwin) because I was so uncool as to judge someone for not following the same laws I do?
Frankly I would welcome automatic ticketing of speed violations, bet you dont have the balls to put yourself up against that level of enforcement. If I ever have a need for speed, it's because I'm in an ambulance and they are allowed to.
Whats with the whole "not your business" thing?
/. posters seem to think it's ok as long as you don't get caught and you should never have to answer for crimes committed that you get away with.
If I see someone drive off from the gas pump and happen to notice the license plate, I should not give it to the store when they ask if anyone saw it because "it's not my business"?
Should I not report a robbery in progress across the street because "it's not my business"?
If someone is being assaulted do you just walk on by because "it's not your business"?
If I catch wind someone is spiking drinks to rape someone do you just go on because "it's not your business"?
Sorry to make this sound a little like "when did you stop beating your wife" but it seams a large number of
What level of illegal activity actually becomes your business? Only when it directly affects you?
I bet you would be singing a different tune had you gone into the store that video card was returned to, bought it thinking it was a $450 video card and got instead the low end POS he put in. Imagine you did that and when you came back claiming the product in the box was not the product that was supposed to be in the box, I bet the store would say you switched the item to steal it from them.
All the people (mostly seem to be grade schoolers and high schoolers who think they have all the answers) denouncing this person for reporting a crime need a reality check. Maybe if they spend a few years with people trying to scam them every way possible all day long they might wake up.
I do agree with some of the posters who say he should have (I don't remember him saying if he did or not) talked to the guy first and given him a chance to come clean himself, but from my experiences as and with a teenager, nothing would have come from it and the end result would have been the same.
I think he is implying that there would be less PS2 fraud if SONY didn't make shit consoles (I mean part/design quality). See my previous post about the subject in this topic.
I think that kind of fraud is bad, but SONY set themselves up for it by not building a quality piece of hardware, it's so shitty there have been twelve versions. All of them break. I'm on my 3rd one, they don't get abuse or dropped and are in a clean smoke free environment. I don't use them for DVD playback or anything weird like pour molten lead in them.
Retailers are using thermal paper not to reduce fraud but to fuck over customers who buy from them. Thermal tech should be banned and using it should get the death penalty.
If you think I am being unreasonable, just you wait until the fate of a multi thousand dollar purchase is resting on a thermal receipt and even though you filed it safely it's now blank and the company claims they no longer have to honor the agreement because you no longer can prove you bought the item.
All that could be avoided if SONY stopped using shit parts, designs, and manufacturing.
I don't do it (the fraud), and never would, but I have 3 PS2s and 2 of em are dead until I can re-calibrate the lasers (or replace them depending on how bad they have gotten)..
They have never been dropped/abused, never used to watch movies.
A console should last at least 10 years (Turbo Duo and Sega CD and Saturn are still going strong) if taken good care of and baring any component failures.
They arise because people saw god in everything (Shinto and animism), therefore anywhere can be a temple and anyone can worship at any time. This means there is no need of a special class of person. However some religions that see god in everything (Hinduism/Hare Krishna) find a way to create a class of special person. They built the caste system and a thing called disciplic succession for the priest class. Disciplic succession works by claiming we can not directly approach god, but must approach a priest who in turn approaches his master, who passes the prayer or worship up the chain (to previous masters who are no longer on this earth) until it finally reaches whomever the prayer/sacrifice was meant for.
The problem I have with disciplic succession is that through the holy books and epics of Hinduism and the Hare Krishnas, countless times a individual not of the priest class calls upon gods offer prayers and gets results without any of the political BS that arises out of disciplic succession.
YMMV and apologies to any ISKCON members who may be reading this, but your leaders really fucked thing up for a LONG time.
It's not "level up", the proper term is "proactively leverage his experance metric".
Video games is it?
I thought it was TV, Wars, and Mack Bolan novels.
Unless you are into extreme body modification peircings close up after time.
As for tattoos I can see someone regretting bad choices down the line, but they are not impossible to get rid of.
I doubt that, we have Daikatana to scare them with.
I'm not a fan of rap music, but just like all video games are not about killing hookers, all rap is not about doing drugs and guns and how great it is to be a gangster.
The early rap I heard had none of that, and quite often was speaking against things like drug abuse and domestic violence, as well as other issues in life.
I think the qualities you associate with rap came from the "gangster rap" side that did become quite popular, but are not all that there is.
I dunno, some people view the instrument makers as gods of cool, they make the things that the cool musicians play. Like Hephaestus forging items of great power/splendor for mortals smiled upon by the favor of the gods.
Ask people about about Antonio Stradivari, or even more recent makers like Les Paul or Ernie Ball.
Usually the people who know/revere those makers are musicians or really into music, but some are known wide just by reputation.
Sadly "Ramble On" is the only one I can think of to listen to while playing LOTR games or is it better for GTA, I haven't decided exactly which it is more appropriate.
How is anti-hero entertainment a problem?
I can think of plenty of games that are not intended for you to play as an anti-hero but you can. People want choices, and sometimes they want to explore the dark part of themselves (we all have that dark part) in a way that will not harm others. God games are a type that people usually turn to evil as entertainment. I don't think you can count the number of people who have done some evil serial killer level stuff to SIMS.
Take Knights of the old republic. You are constantly confronted with situations that you can choose to be evil or good. Some are also quite morally ambiguous. Frankly I have never had the nerve to play as a dark sider, I don't have the stomach for even virtually engaging in the racism, hate and brutal treatment of others that you have dialog options for in the games.
For some reason I can play and enjoy being Tommy Vercetti (even if I think he should do things somewhat differently) or CJ in San Andreas. In the case of the latter things are a bit more muddy, as you get framed for a crime you didn't commit by dirty cops, get caught up in a gang/vengeance war, and try to get rid of drug dealers. CJ is a much more conflicted (he claims to have gone straight before returning for the funeral)and complex character then Tommy because Tommy just went and did his criminal thing after getting out of prison and AFAIK didn't change at all. From what I could tell Tommy cared for no one and used people around him (probably a bit cynical from prison) while CJ seems to care about people and does not view them as objects to be used.
When I was a kid, besides playing Coleco Vision and Atari, we played Cops and Robbers (based off real situations, ohhh scary) and other violent "role playing", we pretended to violently kill each other. IMO if that didnt cause us to be killers then no amount of Manhunt, GTA, Streets of rage or Double Dragon will.
So explain how playing GTA will turn you into an agressive violent killer while actually simulation IRL killing your friends wont?
If anything makes people agressive and violent it's the culture we have in school (and have had since before I was born) that sports are everything, to be as agressive as possible because it's all about you the "star" player, and the same at home with bad parents abusing the kids to perform for them what they could not do.
As someone who has played through Manhunt I'd say it has about tas much story/plot as say the book Running Man or one of the GTA games (like Vice City) I have not fininshed San Andreas yet.
"Gyrating Hips" are old. "Invader Blood marching through your vains like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command you. Do not ignore your veins!" are the new in thing. Or so I'm told by a perfectly normal human worm child with plentiful organs.
Why are you so hung up on smoking? It's not the only way. One can eat it, and (I did not know this) someone else mentioned you can vaporize it.
Hemp is a good fiber (but not for optics, I have never seen that claim) and frankly cheap to produce for things like paper and cloth/rope. You can even get types that produce little to no THC so no need to worry about people having a good time. Oil from the plant is also useful and something you can get out of it while you are processing it for the other uses above.
I'm not saying it is some magical weed that will solve humanities problems, but it could be useful.
Ahh, but with xXxenophile (in my experience) you actually could get a whole set easily compares to anything coming out of WOTC.
The last standard for if a collectible game was worth it was that you could get a whole set (or within a card or two) from single box of booster packs. This worked back in the ERA of baseball cards (do they even make those anymore).
Yes, but it wont be called tapping.Clipping your wang I think will be appropriate.
Now a days (and for many years) in America they call the thick (like chips) ones "steak fries".
Less resistance means runs cooler right?
"The Revolution may well not be capable of putting out the sheer processing or graphical rendering power of the PS3 or xbox360 which would hinder any porting of the standard multiplatform fare."
And monkeys may fly out of my ass.
do you have any real specs or performance comparisons based on finalized hardware and cross platform optimized for each console games?
Do you actually believe the hype? That the PS3 will be 50 bazillion times as powerful as Deep Though, and that the Xbox360 will be comparable to the processing power of an obscure supercomputer called "The Earth".
Realistically, looking at all the designs, I see 3 consoles that are near enough to each other that they may be indistinguishable in what they can do and how it will look. That's why they are working so hard to hype, network this, HDD that, and controller other thing.
I dont care what console it comes out for but I hope we get an update on Skygunner, or maybe the PS3 can play it without having to use the code that disables all visuals so the framerate does not drop into slideshow mode. It's a great game that IMO should have been ported to the Gamecube like Ikurga was (DC version suffered slowdowns).
You are forgetting S-VHS only a little lower in resolution then regular DVD.