But I don't want to be let go before I'm ready to go, either.
I would give them notice on the day you are ready to retire, and then carry on with them until they are ready or until your good will wears out. If your boss/HR has any competency at all, they already know what's coming.
Exactly this. Mobile prices also vary significantly by province, due to varying states of regulation making competition more viable. Saskatchewan has some arms-length crown-owned providers which produces a competitive market with the big 3. Over there prices are in the area of $45/mo for phone+5GB, versus the exact same provider/plan in Ontario being $60/mo.
And for all the idiots talking about population density? Saskatchewan = 1.8 persons/km, Ontario = 14.1 persons/km. The difference is competition and regulatory capture.
This is 100% some irrelevant guy trying to get visibility by making popular claims and hoping media organizations will be click-bait greedy enough to publish something about him. Enter Slashdot.
You'll go crazy if you try to argue logically with these people. You can't argue with trolls or stupid.
Obviously they're trolls. The only argument you need is to have them explain commercial airline flight path/time.
And absolutely it does. We have 2 young children who some evenings can be a handful, and rather than stressing our way through an evening out we will call ahead and order food for pickup. We save on tips and drinks and have a much less stressful meal at home, and with quality restaurants offering pick-up we don't have to limit ourselves to fast-food.
Want to know why we got tTrump? Because a lot of people got sick of the "deep-state" "two-headed singl- party" "swamp" and he was the biggest monkey wrench they could grab to throw into the machine.
That's giving way, WAY too much credit to the average voter. While I'm sure some people exist who voted in this manner, I suspect the vast majority voted for Trump because they liked his populist campaign platform.
They aren't the same, but if the procedures are put into the same context (e.g. regulated and done by trained medical staff versus in the home by a religious nut), I expect the outcomes are similar. If I'm way off base please educate me.
a muslim immigrant from syria tried to argue that "he didn't know it was wrong not to beat his wife"
And locally born citizens that beat their wives come up with ridiculous excuses also. Thankfully ignorance of the law is not a valid defense in either case. Also the version of the guide when this man immigrated (the same one available today) is the one with the "barbaric cultural practices" addition which specifically mentions violence against spouses is severely punished. So I'm not sure what your point is other than that it obviously didn't help in this case. Also given that this guy beat his wife for 30 minutes with a hockey stick and received 8 days in jail for it, obviously the guide is incorrect as he was hardly punished at all.
We don't need this kind of US-style "us versus them" bullshit rhetoric. Learn to see the nuances.
You should talk to the Liberals then [...]
Anyone doing it is bad. I can say with 100% certainty that no party has refrained from pushing partisan bullshit when given the opportunity. I was actually impressed back during "Elbowgate" that Elizabeth May provided a very rational outlook on the whole fiasco rather than trying to cash in on it (though honestly just her calling it the non-issue it was earned points with me, not that I'd vote for her party in general).
The only difference is "male"
Then we agree on that. From that standpoint it seems pretty hypocritical when we proclaim to immigrants that one is barbaric while the other is covered by healthcare.
they also believe that things like FMG isn't barbaric, and beating your wife is okay too
I'm not sure if you remember what life was like in 2011 before the Conservatives added mention of FGM and honour killings into the immigration guide. I'll give you a hint - not having those things mentioned in the guide didn't mean anyone thought it was ok. They're both illegal. Removing them from the guide is (obviously) not a sudden promotion of them. If I put a sign on your lawn indicating that FGM is bad, and you take it down, does that mean you think FGM is ok?
We don't need this kind of US-style "us versus them" bullshit rhetoric. Learn to see the nuances.
Sidebar: male circumcision is also a barbaric cultural practice. It just happens to be legal and done in hospitals here, and we don't call it mutilation.
to star Chris Hemsworth as Captain Kirk's (Chris Pine) father
Chris Pine: 37
Chris Hemsworth: 34
I really hate revisionist plot lines. Kirk's father did a suicide run to save people in the first movie. I guess we'll find out in this one that he actually escaped at the last minute and travelled through time with the Romulans in the first movie, but for some very convincing reason he didn't show up in the plot until this 4th movie.
Cheaters are not their primary demographic. Their primary demographic is quite happy to see a cheater who is trying to propagate cheating get a little fucked up. I'm a gamer, and I have kids, and they will be taught very, very serious lessons about cheating in online games. I think an adequate punishment for cheating in an online game will be no computer games for a month and a permanent ban from the game they cheated in.
Unsurprisingly I started encountering cheaters after the pvp mode went free-to-play. They are there, though the last time I played it was still pretty rare to encounter one.
Instead of legal action they should taking coding action to prevent these sorts of abuses from being possible...
They do, constantly, just like most other developers of popular online games. They also ban the accounts of people they detect cheating. The problem is simply one of reality, in that game developers only have a limited amount of control over the application running on the client machine, and can't simply prevent that machine from running every other program. In the case of fortnite it is somewhat compounded by the fact that the game is free to play, and a ban isn't particularly effective against determined cheaters, especially ones that would monetize their cheating by making youtube videos. Being banned from a free game just costs a little bit of time.
Yeah, but that should exist within the game, and not on some external website. That just sounds sketchy.
Well there is actually an API for Destiny that allows third-party apps to provide various services for you. People use them quite a bit despite what you may think. Certainly you should only use ones linked from credible sources. The one I linked doesn't use the API, it's essentially a specific-purpose chat forum with several hashtags for identifying what you are looking for. There is one called DIM which is an inventory management tool - you can even transfer gear in/out of the vault instantly no matter where your character is in the game. I'm sure there are many more.
Everyone keeps saying that Destiny 2 is some sort of MMOFPSRPG or whatever... I can't call this game a MMO
It's not an MMO. Even Bungie doesn't call it an MMO. If this is the source of your dissatisfaction, then get this idea out of your head and maybe you'll enjoy it a bit more. Also you need to understand that Destiny wasn't built primarily for PC - it is essentially a port of a console game. Its feature set is closer to what you'd get on a console where the social mechanics are provided by the console network (PSN/XBL). On PC those features are provided by the Blizzard app, and there isn't much there. From your post it sounds like maybe you didn't play Destiny 1. As a primarily PC gamer, I enjoyed Destiny 1 but hated the fact it was not available on PC (same with the Halo franchise). I see Destiny 2 being on PC at all as a huge hand-out so I'm pretty forgiving that it lacks some of the features you might expect in a PC game, especially when there are plenty of alternatives for them if you look.
Consider how many years old their successful products are at this point.
Google's been historically very good at taking an existing product/idea and implementing it very well. Google wasn't first to search, online advertising, maps, many things. But they took those ideas and implemented executed them far better than their competitors. I think Google's not producing any less quality products than they used to, I think their competitors are just getting better at building their own products. For example Alexa's a good product (from what I read), and Google Home will need to be significantly better to have the same success they saw in things like maps.
And the story was compelling.... but it was way too short.
Yep that's a pretty standard complaint for both Destiny games, including all the expansions from the first one. Other than providing context for the world you play in, I don't see the story as much more than a progression mechanic.
How about the lack of a chat system with your Clan
Use Discord? Skype? One of the other free chat services? Unless you're playing on console in which case you knew exactly the environment you were living in already.
or just the general populace ?
Trust me, you don't want that.
Lack of a match-making system, even just a manual one, to create Fireteams for Trial of the Nine, the Leviathan raid or even just Nightfall Strikes. Heck, there's a Exotic weapon quest, that you get at the end of a solo campaign quest, that requires doing Patrols, a solo activity, in a Fireteam. How about a Group Finder tool ?
There are several very useful LFG web sites out there that probably do better than Bungie could have come up with in-game. Seriously, it takes less than a minute to get a group usually. Probably longer on console because the console GUIs are awful for managing contacts.
But... eh..... it just doesn't seem to be that fun.
I only enjoy the game on a continuing basis because I primarily play PVP, which makes most progression mechanics irrelevant. Do you play with friends? When I play PVE it's generally with friends for gear progression, and without the friends I can see it becoming dull very fast.
it isn't like other MMOs don't have the diminishing returns system in place as well, wonder why they intentionally hid it?
The funny thing is, I heard some folks complaining the other day that Destiny 2 was too fast to hand out all the gear and weapons compared to Destiny 1. As per usual, people who have spent 5-10 hours per day playing the game for a month have achieved everything and are whining that there's nothing left for them to do.
I suspect the actual post-levelling XP gains being scaled are a non-issue for almost all of the player base. The post-levelling rewards are not a "grind", it is just an added hand-out for cosmetic items and also some random gear mods which are non-cosmetic but can be bought from in-game vendors anyway. I'd like to hear some stories of how this actually affected a player's experience.
The actual levelling system (prior to reaching 20) is a joke. On my second character I ran through most of the content and ended up blocked from progression because my level was too low to start the next mission. In one case I needed 3 levels and it took about 25 minutes of doing public events to get that.
It seems fairly common sense that the "YouTube Kids" app would have age-appropriate content. It is literally advertised as a version of YouTube fit for kids.
In case parents give their offsprings access to the digital equivalent of a sharp tool they have to supervise them.
YouTube Kids containing hidden horror shows is the equivalent of the Disney Channel broadcasting Mickey Mouse murdering his friends. The difference being that there are actually rules for what is ok to be broadcast on TV and the Disney Channel would be fined for that kind of gross neglect.
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But I don't want to be let go before I'm ready to go, either.
I would give them notice on the day you are ready to retire, and then carry on with them until they are ready or until your good will wears out. If your boss/HR has any competency at all, they already know what's coming.
In the book which the movie is (very loosely) based on, the bad guys become sentient, kill the protagonist, and inherit the world.
Exactly this. Mobile prices also vary significantly by province, due to varying states of regulation making competition more viable. Saskatchewan has some arms-length crown-owned providers which produces a competitive market with the big 3. Over there prices are in the area of $45/mo for phone+5GB, versus the exact same provider/plan in Ontario being $60/mo.
And for all the idiots talking about population density? Saskatchewan = 1.8 persons/km, Ontario = 14.1 persons/km. The difference is competition and regulatory capture.
Canada 3.4/km2
That is the average population density across the entire country which is 100% irrelevant.
You'll go crazy if you try to argue logically with these people. You can't argue with trolls or stupid.
Obviously they're trolls. The only argument you need is to have them explain commercial airline flight path/time.
The EU proposal is just some bizarre misguided rent seeking for the media industries there
When they have to resort to hyperbole like:
access to free information is supposedly one of the great victories of the internet. But it is a myth.
You know they don't have a good argument.
Call ahead ordering can reduce both.
And absolutely it does. We have 2 young children who some evenings can be a handful, and rather than stressing our way through an evening out we will call ahead and order food for pickup. We save on tips and drinks and have a much less stressful meal at home, and with quality restaurants offering pick-up we don't have to limit ourselves to fast-food.
Just put all my belongings into it as well as maxed out my cards and took several loans.
Oh, is this you?
Want to know why we got tTrump? Because a lot of people got sick of the "deep-state" "two-headed singl- party" "swamp" and he was the biggest monkey wrench they could grab to throw into the machine.
That's giving way, WAY too much credit to the average voter. While I'm sure some people exist who voted in this manner, I suspect the vast majority voted for Trump because they liked his populist campaign platform.
I've transferred my entire library to digital
I suspect "transferred" is not the correct term for what you did ;)
They aren't the same, but if the procedures are put into the same context (e.g. regulated and done by trained medical staff versus in the home by a religious nut), I expect the outcomes are similar. If I'm way off base please educate me.
a muslim immigrant from syria tried to argue that "he didn't know it was wrong not to beat his wife"
And locally born citizens that beat their wives come up with ridiculous excuses also. Thankfully ignorance of the law is not a valid defense in either case. Also the version of the guide when this man immigrated (the same one available today) is the one with the "barbaric cultural practices" addition which specifically mentions violence against spouses is severely punished. So I'm not sure what your point is other than that it obviously didn't help in this case. Also given that this guy beat his wife for 30 minutes with a hockey stick and received 8 days in jail for it, obviously the guide is incorrect as he was hardly punished at all.
We don't need this kind of US-style "us versus them" bullshit rhetoric. Learn to see the nuances.
You should talk to the Liberals then [...]
Anyone doing it is bad. I can say with 100% certainty that no party has refrained from pushing partisan bullshit when given the opportunity. I was actually impressed back during "Elbowgate" that Elizabeth May provided a very rational outlook on the whole fiasco rather than trying to cash in on it (though honestly just her calling it the non-issue it was earned points with me, not that I'd vote for her party in general).
The only difference is "male"
Then we agree on that. From that standpoint it seems pretty hypocritical when we proclaim to immigrants that one is barbaric while the other is covered by healthcare.
they also believe that things like FMG isn't barbaric, and beating your wife is okay too
I'm not sure if you remember what life was like in 2011 before the Conservatives added mention of FGM and honour killings into the immigration guide. I'll give you a hint - not having those things mentioned in the guide didn't mean anyone thought it was ok. They're both illegal. Removing them from the guide is (obviously) not a sudden promotion of them. If I put a sign on your lawn indicating that FGM is bad, and you take it down, does that mean you think FGM is ok?
We don't need this kind of US-style "us versus them" bullshit rhetoric. Learn to see the nuances.
Sidebar: male circumcision is also a barbaric cultural practice. It just happens to be legal and done in hospitals here, and we don't call it mutilation.
to star Chris Hemsworth as Captain Kirk's (Chris Pine) father
Chris Pine: 37
Chris Hemsworth: 34
I really hate revisionist plot lines. Kirk's father did a suicide run to save people in the first movie. I guess we'll find out in this one that he actually escaped at the last minute and travelled through time with the Romulans in the first movie, but for some very convincing reason he didn't show up in the plot until this 4th movie.
Cheaters are not their primary demographic. Their primary demographic is quite happy to see a cheater who is trying to propagate cheating get a little fucked up. I'm a gamer, and I have kids, and they will be taught very, very serious lessons about cheating in online games. I think an adequate punishment for cheating in an online game will be no computer games for a month and a permanent ban from the game they cheated in.
Unsurprisingly I started encountering cheaters after the pvp mode went free-to-play. They are there, though the last time I played it was still pretty rare to encounter one.
Instead of legal action they should taking coding action to prevent these sorts of abuses from being possible...
They do, constantly, just like most other developers of popular online games. They also ban the accounts of people they detect cheating. The problem is simply one of reality, in that game developers only have a limited amount of control over the application running on the client machine, and can't simply prevent that machine from running every other program. In the case of fortnite it is somewhat compounded by the fact that the game is free to play, and a ban isn't particularly effective against determined cheaters, especially ones that would monetize their cheating by making youtube videos. Being banned from a free game just costs a little bit of time.
Yeah, but that should exist within the game, and not on some external website. That just sounds sketchy.
Well there is actually an API for Destiny that allows third-party apps to provide various services for you. People use them quite a bit despite what you may think. Certainly you should only use ones linked from credible sources. The one I linked doesn't use the API, it's essentially a specific-purpose chat forum with several hashtags for identifying what you are looking for. There is one called DIM which is an inventory management tool - you can even transfer gear in/out of the vault instantly no matter where your character is in the game. I'm sure there are many more.
Everyone keeps saying that Destiny 2 is some sort of MMOFPSRPG or whatever... I can't call this game a MMO
It's not an MMO. Even Bungie doesn't call it an MMO. If this is the source of your dissatisfaction, then get this idea out of your head and maybe you'll enjoy it a bit more. Also you need to understand that Destiny wasn't built primarily for PC - it is essentially a port of a console game. Its feature set is closer to what you'd get on a console where the social mechanics are provided by the console network (PSN/XBL). On PC those features are provided by the Blizzard app, and there isn't much there. From your post it sounds like maybe you didn't play Destiny 1. As a primarily PC gamer, I enjoyed Destiny 1 but hated the fact it was not available on PC (same with the Halo franchise). I see Destiny 2 being on PC at all as a huge hand-out so I'm pretty forgiving that it lacks some of the features you might expect in a PC game, especially when there are plenty of alternatives for them if you look.
Consider how many years old their successful products are at this point.
Google's been historically very good at taking an existing product/idea and implementing it very well. Google wasn't first to search, online advertising, maps, many things. But they took those ideas and implemented executed them far better than their competitors. I think Google's not producing any less quality products than they used to, I think their competitors are just getting better at building their own products. For example Alexa's a good product (from what I read), and Google Home will need to be significantly better to have the same success they saw in things like maps.
And the story was compelling.... but it was way too short.
Yep that's a pretty standard complaint for both Destiny games, including all the expansions from the first one. Other than providing context for the world you play in, I don't see the story as much more than a progression mechanic.
How about the lack of a chat system with your Clan
Use Discord? Skype? One of the other free chat services? Unless you're playing on console in which case you knew exactly the environment you were living in already.
or just the general populace ?
Trust me, you don't want that.
Lack of a match-making system, even just a manual one, to create Fireteams for Trial of the Nine, the Leviathan raid or even just Nightfall Strikes. Heck, there's a Exotic weapon quest, that you get at the end of a solo campaign quest, that requires doing Patrols, a solo activity, in a Fireteam. How about a Group Finder tool ?
There are several very useful LFG web sites out there that probably do better than Bungie could have come up with in-game. Seriously, it takes less than a minute to get a group usually. Probably longer on console because the console GUIs are awful for managing contacts.
But... eh..... it just doesn't seem to be that fun.
I only enjoy the game on a continuing basis because I primarily play PVP, which makes most progression mechanics irrelevant. Do you play with friends? When I play PVE it's generally with friends for gear progression, and without the friends I can see it becoming dull very fast.
it isn't like other MMOs don't have the diminishing returns system in place as well, wonder why they intentionally hid it?
The funny thing is, I heard some folks complaining the other day that Destiny 2 was too fast to hand out all the gear and weapons compared to Destiny 1. As per usual, people who have spent 5-10 hours per day playing the game for a month have achieved everything and are whining that there's nothing left for them to do.
I suspect the actual post-levelling XP gains being scaled are a non-issue for almost all of the player base. The post-levelling rewards are not a "grind", it is just an added hand-out for cosmetic items and also some random gear mods which are non-cosmetic but can be bought from in-game vendors anyway. I'd like to hear some stories of how this actually affected a player's experience.
The actual levelling system (prior to reaching 20) is a joke. On my second character I ran through most of the content and ended up blocked from progression because my level was too low to start the next mission. In one case I needed 3 levels and it took about 25 minutes of doing public events to get that.
In case parents give their offsprings access to the digital equivalent of a sharp tool they have to supervise them.
YouTube Kids containing hidden horror shows is the equivalent of the Disney Channel broadcasting Mickey Mouse murdering his friends. The difference being that there are actually rules for what is ok to be broadcast on TV and the Disney Channel would be fined for that kind of gross neglect.