I could respond that not only am I a happily married uber-RPG geek (The "writes his own RPGs" type), or that not a single one of my players, past or present, remains a virgin, or that a suprising number of women play RPGs and, thus, make them actually a way to be MORE likely to get laid.
Look, I was drafted into a few DnD games recently. Yes, there were girls there. However, they were all grotesque and scary looking. So um, count me out.
Now that's something I've never understood in the movies or in the games. I mean, if you're a zombie, you don't have a brain. Period. It's all mush and all you want to do is to eat the brain of someone else for some obscure reason (protein content, perhaps?).
Return of the Living Dead said the reason zombies eat brains is, "because it's the only thing that numbs the paaaaaiiiiin! The paaaaaaiiin of death!" But that's not a very serious zombie movie.
If I were facing a zombie and I had a shotgun, I'd just shoot his bloody legs off and run away bravely.
Well in that same movie, even the dismembered parts continued to move.
Reporter: Chief, if I were surrounded by eight or ten of these things, would I stand a chance with them?
Sheriff: Well, there's no problem. If you have a gun, shoot 'em in the head. That's a sure way to kill 'em. If you don't, get yourself a club or a torch. Beat 'em or burn 'em. They go up pretty easy.
Reporter: Are they slow moving Chief?
Sheriff: Yeah. They're dead. They're all messed up.
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Either that or eventually turn into a plant or something.
Just because you watch anime doesn't mean you know Japanese. No, "fansubs" still don't count.
You're writing in English. There's no "-san" honorific in English, so don't use it. Titles don't go with the nationality of the person you're talking about. It never has. It never will. In fact, no language exists that does that.
Using things like "-san" in English makes you appear at best, a loser fanboy (aka "otaku wa baka"), and at worst patronizing (aka "gaijin wa baka").
Reminds me of the 1970's Second City Christmas skit.
Joseph and a pregnant Mary attend a marriage councilor.
Joseph: "Look. We just get married. I don't even get a chance to fuck her yet, and she turns up pregnant!" Councilor: "Jesus Christ!" Joseph: "That's what I said!"
For those of us that are joining late, remember that as you move faster through space the universe around you seems to speed up AND space itself seems to contract--from your frame of reference distances are shorter, and you thus do not need to travel as far.
Space doesn't contract for the traveler. The traveler seems to contract when viewed by an outside observer, since the speed of light is constant in all reference frames. It's called Lorentz Contraction.
Most restaurants use either premix or postmix. Premix is, as the word suggests, pre-mixed with water at the bottling plant. It costs about 10x as much as postmix but it tastes a lot better. Chain restaurants and whatnot use postmix where a syrup is mixed with water on-site. This is the cheapest but least "tasty" option. The contents of cup of postmix costs very little; the cup costs something though.
Interesting. I have a friend that swears that McDonald's Coca-Cola is absolute best tasting Coca-Cola. Better than cans, or even other resturants, and I'm sure Mickey-D's would use the cheapest option.
I'm writing my thesis using LaTeX (invaluable for equations, but it's kind of a bitch to change formatting) and I'm using BibTeX. You create a list of items like:
@inproceedings{jiaying,
author = {Jiaying Shen and Victor Lesser and Norman Carver},
title = {Minimizing Communication Cost in a Distributed Bayesian Network Using a Decentralized MDP},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems},
year = {2003},
isbn = {1-58113-683-8},
pages = {678--685},
location = {Melbourne, Australia},
doi = {<a href="http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/860575.860684">ht tp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/860575.860684</a>},
publisher = {ACM Press}, }
And depending on how you set your citations style, you'll get parentetical citations, bracket citations, footnotes, whatever. Also the bibliography will be automatically formated and sorted properly. It's the easiest way to keep track bibliographical information.
Those have been taken over by Starbucks and Jamba Juice. Oddly enough, they're also the primary hangouts of anti-capitalist leftists.
No self respecting java junkie hangs out at Starbuck's. My favorite Starbucks story is about the Starbucks in downtown Kansas City, Missouri (near the Kansas border). It's literally right next door to an indie and has the lowest prices of any Starbuck's I've ever seen.(Almost a buck lower.) Yet, no one goes in. The indie next door always has twice as many people inside. The reason? Indies have class. Starbuck'ses (Starbucks'? Starbucki?) don't. They're designed for people to come in, order a "double low-fat hot vente latte" and leave. Indies (no matter what the sector) have a community. Chains don't.
Oh and the vast majority of liberals aren't "anti-capitalist", they're just against lassie faire econmics since it inevitably leads lower socio-economic standards for the vast majority of the population. There's a whole continum betweeen the extremes. Perhaps we should use it.
I need VHS to take those ultrasounds home with me (just did this today, in fact);
So what's the point. I mean really. How often are you going to watch it? Once? (not counting the time when you saw it live) Twice at most? I just don't get home movies. And I really don't get watching grainy black and white images of what looks not entirely unlink a worm.
I want to know what happens to old super computers. Then can be used for quite (10 years max?) while since the parallelism is what's more important than the individual raw processor speed, Do they sell them or what?
I like what the guy a few posts up said....Would you be OK with it if you had to go to court and your lawyer showed up with all sorts of visible tats and strange body piercings?
It sounds like your simply jealous that the actors have a better idea. Instead of saying, "No fair! You shouldn't do that because we don't do that!", you should be saying, "Shit! Why don't we do that?"
Because they're salaried employees, not contract talent. Their salary is their royalty.
You could say the same about every industry. Why don't GM employees get a cut of the profits for every car sold? Why don't textile workers get a cut of every shirt sold? Why don't McDonalds employees get a penny for every burger they sell?
The fact is they do. It's called a weekly paycheck - where do you think payroll money comes from? Voice actors, like other project-based talent, are instead paid based on a work-for-hire contract - as it stands now, they're paid only once, regardless of whether a game sells a million copies or a thousand. (This in contrast to a salaried employee, who - theoretically - would see a raise or other increase in benefits if the company is doing well.)
Royalties are intended to fairly compensate non-salaried employees for work they have done, in proportion to the amount of sales their work is bringing in.
Let me counter your argument, by pointing out that royalties don't just compensate for an intermitent paycheck but actual provide profit sharing. Profit sharing already occurs with salaried employess in several industries. Most often profit sharing occurs via stock options or stock grants (especially with dividend producting stocks), but in some cases through direct profit sharing.
Profit sharing ensures employees benefit from a successful company. Under a profit sharing plan, the employees directly benefit (as opposed to the current situation where they benefit indirectly) from successful products. This inturn encourages employees to meet deadlines, lower costs, and increase the overall quality of product. Stock option plans attempt to do this, but under option regimes the responsibility (i.e. "ownership") of the product's success is diluted through executive decisions. The are some problems with the current stock option regimes. Perhaps direct revenue sharing could counter these problems, and result in happier, more dedicated, and more productive employees.
More recently, a game like Katamari Damacy had no big name actors at all (in fact, it had no understandable language in it whatsoever) and it was one of the biggest hits of last year.
Actually Katamari Damacy does have voice actors for the end-of-stage and cut scenes.
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I could respond that not only am I a happily married uber-RPG geek (The "writes his own RPGs" type), or that not a single one of my players, past or present, remains a virgin, or that a suprising number of women play RPGs and, thus, make them actually a way to be MORE likely to get laid.
Look, I was drafted into a few DnD games recently. Yes, there were girls there. However, they were all grotesque and scary looking. So um, count me out.
Now that's something I've never understood in the movies or in the games. I mean, if you're a zombie, you don't have a brain. Period. It's all mush and all you want to do is to eat the brain of someone else for some obscure reason (protein content, perhaps?).
Return of the Living Dead said the reason zombies eat brains is, "because it's the only thing that numbs the paaaaaiiiiin! The paaaaaaiiin of death!" But that's not a very serious zombie movie.
If I were facing a zombie and I had a shotgun, I'd just shoot his bloody legs off and run away bravely.
Well in that same movie, even the dismembered parts continued to move.
Sorry nope.
From Night of the Living Dead:
Reporter: Chief, if I were surrounded by eight or ten of these things, would I stand a chance with them?
Sheriff: Well, there's no problem. If you have a gun, shoot 'em in the head. That's a sure way to kill 'em. If you don't, get yourself a club or a torch. Beat 'em or burn 'em. They go up pretty
easy.
Reporter: Are they slow moving Chief?
Sheriff: Yeah. They're dead. They're all messed up.
Either that or eventually turn into a plant or something.
Just because you watch anime doesn't mean you know Japanese. No, "fansubs" still don't count.
You're writing in English. There's no "-san" honorific in English, so don't use it. Titles don't go with the nationality of the person you're talking about. It never has. It never will. In fact, no language exists that does that.
Using things like "-san" in English makes you appear at best, a loser fanboy (aka "otaku wa baka"), and at worst patronizing (aka "gaijin wa baka").
Hear! Hear!
You should overclock by hitting the turbo button! It roxxors!
Don't you know, the turbo button is for under/bclocking to 8Mhz. That way it run nice and cool, without any fans! Awesome! Freakin' awesome!
Reminds me of the 1970's Second City Christmas skit.
Joseph and a pregnant Mary attend a marriage councilor.
Joseph: "Look. We just get married. I don't even get a chance to fuck her yet, and she turns up pregnant!"
Councilor: "Jesus Christ!"
Joseph: "That's what I said!"
"The Passion of the Christ." If only they had American main characters, they might have made money in US theaters.
:)
Wait! Wasn't Jesus American? I mean, I know he wasn't Jew...
For those of us that are joining late, remember that as you move faster through space the universe around you seems to speed up AND space itself seems to contract--from your frame of reference distances are shorter, and you thus do not need to travel as far.
Space doesn't contract for the traveler. The traveler seems to contract when viewed by an outside observer, since the speed of light is constant in all reference frames. It's called Lorentz Contraction.
Most restaurants use either premix or postmix. Premix is, as the word suggests, pre-mixed with water at the bottling plant. It costs about 10x as much as postmix but it tastes a lot better. Chain restaurants and whatnot use postmix where a syrup is mixed with water on-site. This is the cheapest but least "tasty" option. The contents of cup of postmix costs very little; the cup costs something though.
Interesting. I have a friend that swears that McDonald's Coca-Cola is absolute best tasting Coca-Cola. Better than cans, or even other resturants, and I'm sure Mickey-D's would use the cheapest option.
Those have been taken over by Starbucks and Jamba Juice. Oddly enough, they're also the primary hangouts of anti-capitalist leftists.
No self respecting java junkie hangs out at Starbuck's. My favorite Starbucks story is about the Starbucks in downtown Kansas City, Missouri (near the Kansas border). It's literally right next door to an indie and has the lowest prices of any Starbuck's I've ever seen.(Almost a buck lower.) Yet, no one goes in. The indie next door always has twice as many people inside. The reason? Indies have class. Starbuck'ses (Starbucks'? Starbucki?) don't. They're designed for people to come in, order a "double low-fat hot vente latte" and leave. Indies (no matter what the sector) have a community. Chains don't.
Oh and the vast majority of liberals aren't "anti-capitalist", they're just against lassie faire econmics since it inevitably leads lower socio-economic standards for the vast majority of the population. There's a whole continum betweeen the extremes. Perhaps we should use it.
I need VHS to take those ultrasounds home with me (just did this today, in fact);
So what's the point. I mean really. How often are you going to watch it? Once? (not counting the time when you saw it live) Twice at most? I just don't get home movies. And I really don't get watching grainy black and white images of what looks not entirely unlink a worm.
I want to know what happens to old super computers. Then can be used for quite (10 years max?) while since the parallelism is what's more important than the individual raw processor speed, Do they sell them or what?
You could always just take a regular novel, slice it up, put each chapter in an envelope, and get a friend to mail them to you one at a time.
Your ability to repeat exactly what was said in the post you're replying to is amazing. How insightful! How original! Do you also DJ?
News flash - a track record indicates likelihood of success. Or perhaps you have not yet learned not everything is a crap shoot.
I like what the guy a few posts up said....Would you be OK with it if you had to go to court and your lawyer showed up with all sorts of visible tats and strange body piercings?
Depends on how good the lawyer is.
A Gronk replacment is already available. It's called Grind. I use it all the time. (I should, since I wrote it.)
Sure. Word already complains about non-politically correct pronouns (at least on the stricter grammar settings)
Really? I've never seen "co" suggested instead of "he" or "she". Or is it that you don't know what the difference between a noun and a pronoun is.
What exactly does this new release of Debian offer besides retro-linux creds?
Self-rightous zealots?
Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex.
--Lewis, Revenge of the Nerds
It sounds like your simply jealous that the actors have a better idea. Instead of saying, "No fair! You shouldn't do that because we don't do that!", you should be saying, "Shit! Why don't we do that?"
The fault lies with ourselves.
Because they're salaried employees, not contract talent. Their salary is their royalty.
You could say the same about every industry. Why don't GM employees get a cut of the profits for every car sold? Why don't textile workers get a cut of every shirt sold? Why don't McDonalds employees get a penny for every burger they sell?
The fact is they do. It's called a weekly paycheck - where do you think payroll money comes from? Voice actors, like other project-based talent, are instead paid based on a work-for-hire contract - as it stands now, they're paid only once, regardless of whether a game sells a million copies or a thousand. (This in contrast to a salaried employee, who - theoretically - would see a raise or other increase in benefits if the company is doing well.)
Royalties are intended to fairly compensate non-salaried employees for work they have done, in proportion to the amount of sales their work is bringing in.
Let me counter your argument, by pointing out that royalties don't just compensate for an intermitent paycheck but actual provide profit sharing. Profit sharing already occurs with salaried employess in several industries. Most often profit sharing occurs via stock options or stock grants (especially with dividend producting stocks), but in some cases through direct profit sharing.
Profit sharing ensures employees benefit from a successful company. Under a profit sharing plan, the employees directly benefit (as opposed to the current situation where they benefit indirectly) from successful products. This inturn encourages employees to meet deadlines, lower costs, and increase the overall quality of product. Stock option plans attempt to do this, but under option regimes the responsibility (i.e. "ownership") of the product's success is diluted through executive decisions. The are some problems with the current stock option regimes. Perhaps direct revenue sharing could counter these problems, and result in happier, more dedicated, and more productive employees.
More recently, a game like Katamari Damacy had no big name actors at all (in fact, it had no understandable language in it whatsoever) and it was one of the biggest hits of last year.
Actually Katamari Damacy does have voice actors for the end-of-stage and cut scenes.