I don't like to indulge insoluble problems. If you're playing in a sport, and half your team becomes injured or leaves or whatever, do you even bother going on the field? Same for video games. Same for those 1v1 monster card games. Or maybe those movie lines where I hear "mate in four moves".
If a friend invites you to play a video game but stipulates that you can only play as the useless joke character, it might be funny and silly. Because it's absurd. Ridiculous. A stranger's invitation will seem a waste of time. You don't participate. You don't bother. You scoop the cards, you abandon the lobby, you announce your defeat, announce the futility and mic drop a GG.
I wouldn't be above that. I'm not suicidal, but I'm not hearing the "life is precious" song when the world is full of evidence (specifically, decisions and behavior at scales from small to national/global) to the contrary. I'm not clinging THAT hard to my existence, I don't survive . Instinct might kick in if I try to drown myself, but it doesn't help prevent your finger from harmlessly flexing. On a button or trigger. Those are a single instruction from a conscious mind that has decided to return the universe's favor, fate's generosity, with a middle finger of my own, has decided to walk away from The Game.
Abandoning scenarios with no solution sounds like good resource management, frankly. The only difference with suicide is that there's (probably) nothing after. But resigning in disgust can impact a broken (eg corrupt) office/corporation/etc, even if you're not in their Game anymore.
Who needs buttons, all I/O can be performed by touch screen digitizers, we'll do anything to claim the phone has a 20-inch* screen
*diagonal** **through all three*** spatial axes ***actually through a significant 4th one because the measurement we'll use on the CES posterboard (and consequently tech articles from journalists who held it for 30 seconds) will be made near the edge of a gravitational singularity
You're right, increasing the reward is the obvious answer.
BUT OUR SHARKCA-
Then use a rotation, use cooldowns, use a ramping reward boost that depletes.
Technically they're already doing what you specified: They regularly rotate certain modes with a trivial reward boost. It doesn't help, screams the headline. Assuming their superiors are outright refusing to increase the base yield, you'll need at least a "x20 pay for first play of day" or an accumulating boost system (other methods abound) to incentivize abandoned features/modes. They're not bad, they're just overshadowed. Make it worth his/her time, and a gamer will try all your random GTA shit. Capture the flag, domination, golf, whatever. They absolutely have the power to revive interest.
Even if they just do it once per month, it would significantly round out participation and mode activity. This would deplete from the world lobbies, which tend to lead to idleness and idle-induced fuckery, and instead shift the pie towards more game-mode habitation.
This would make your game more appealing, increase retention, even popularity... wait who cares, it has enough, the MTXing will go on.
Oh look, instead of a menu bar I have a widening arrow, a ribbon, a curled ribbon, a trio of lines, a trio of dots, and a trio of dots with double lines.
I have no fucking idea which one has the controls under "View", but even when I find it, that still won't justify the Myst button.
I'm not sure I even tolerate the usually-consistent gear/screwdriver/wrench that kindasorta manages to identify with config/prefs.
No fucking shit, Sherlock. Parroting that is literally the silhouette Apple intended for you to hold up; by setting the stage of the word "different", their implication of "ipad is better than a computer!" emerges without being needing to be blatantly spoken.
I want to say "it's still ham-fisted and bald" but if you guys are still way fumbling through your "omg ipads ARE computers" kneejerk then Apple's mediocre play is still subtle and clever by relative measure.
Keep up so you can scorn their crude methods with something less mouthbreather.
> we should proceed, automate all jobs possible to automate Happening no matter how we feel about it.
> Would automation improve the lives of these people Sure, if they own the factories or are a share-holder.
> potentially the only source of income available Nonsense. The 0.001% will create demand for human ottomans, artists/poets/musicians, and a blowjob waiting list stretching halfway across shantytown. That or we'll employ three billion robot repairmen.
Seriouslytho, Prolekistan has ONE export and it's going to evaporate. The drips of tourism are a rounding error. I will assume everyone knows what happens to countries with no export.
Maybe we'll get lucky and the Omicronians will just enslave Earth. It's a slightly better outcome because at least the human race will have a step up in medicine and stuff.
No, we're pretty much blind to the opinions (operations, even) of 3letter-leading faces that long since stopped serving the interests of their citizens.
Oh. You meant the traitorous coward in the tweet.
Well, same answer, Joe Sixpack doesn't pay him much mind either.
There, I've done my good deed for the day and granted keystrokes to a tryhard.
By all means, make the definition broad. Historically, the word "harassment" has been pretty easy to qualify. This also means the word isn't worth shit.
Problem is social justice bullies trying to drag it up, probably not stopping until it's an attention-grenade more overused than "rape" tack-ons, or worse yet is groups using it to advance their agendas, e.g. take down competitors, silence critics/detractors.
A review talks shit about Juicero? Raw water? I'M BEING HARASSED INTERNET TOXICITY oh review's gone
Popularity is a correlation; it directly depends on benefactors being approached by services that probably have a word like "mitigation" in their name.
They pitch noise like "Game of Thrones was downloaded 80,000 times that's one MILLION dollars of moneys, so you're losing out by not hiring us for the bargain of $50,000"
Then there's a second powerpoint at the end of the contract, "we got 40,000 super-serious emails sent which definitely means we scored you like, all the cash ever, in totally-real dollars, so sign here for another year"
Internally, the ISPs don't give a flying fuck about imaginaryproperty'R'Us or HBO, they smile and nod and say "wow yup sure we'll check it out" then continue taking a check from your residential ass for keeping shit plugged in, a cow they'd prefer to keep around (who wouldn't?) unless you're so flagrant you're a liability. At the end of the day, nothing really changes, except HBO gets fleeced. But they don't mind because pretty much everyone in the chain gets to deliver positive reports to their superiors about how much they've accomplished for the company while they played flappy crush.
So it depends on exactly which studios are signing off on active IPRUS swarm squatters, on who have C-levels that get suckered into pitches, on who are gullible enough to believe form letters equal money; on who have legal depts that are looking to preen and strut over imaginary results. But it's true that the contract frequency is proportional to popularity (budget), activity, whatever.
>If you have a problem with a business, do not buy their stuff. He said triumphantly, standing over the remains of a walmart, exulting in the success of his "do not buy their stuff" genius, hero of his local 2005 stores, which didn't shut down after self-destructive undercutting.
Either (1) that actually happened or (2) you're a dumbfuck who is ignoring reality due to reasons of malice and/or incompetence.
Here is an idea: Discuss shit that actually happens and matters in the real world.
There's definition criteria to your "free market" masturbation - y'know, that follow-up paragraph you skipped right over? That mentions definitions like consumers aware of their sourcing options?
The usual story is that developed countries, reduced poverty, public education, etc. mean very moderated birthrates emerge, even if it takes a while for the existing births (people) to expire.
This of course, is correlation to the true causality: Availability of lewds
Slashdot Mirror
Check what he's actually defending, instead of trying to equate elsewhere.
ARE YOU SRSLY DEFENDING TERRORISM? REALLY? ACTUALLY?
> Time also exists
Does it? "Cold" and "Dark" don't exist. Not the frame being discussed.
I don't like to indulge insoluble problems. If you're playing in a sport, and half your team becomes injured or leaves or whatever, do you even bother going on the field? Same for video games. Same for those 1v1 monster card games. Or maybe those movie lines where I hear "mate in four moves".
If a friend invites you to play a video game but stipulates that you can only play as the useless joke character, it might be funny and silly. Because it's absurd. Ridiculous. A stranger's invitation will seem a waste of time. You don't participate. You don't bother. You scoop the cards, you abandon the lobby, you announce your defeat, announce the futility and mic drop a GG.
I wouldn't be above that. I'm not suicidal, but I'm not hearing the "life is precious" song when the world is full of evidence (specifically, decisions and behavior at scales from small to national/global) to the contrary. I'm not clinging THAT hard to my existence, I don't survive . Instinct might kick in if I try to drown myself, but it doesn't help prevent your finger from harmlessly flexing. On a button or trigger. Those are a single instruction from a conscious mind that has decided to return the universe's favor, fate's generosity, with a middle finger of my own, has decided to walk away from The Game.
Abandoning scenarios with no solution sounds like good resource management, frankly. The only difference with suicide is that there's (probably) nothing after. But resigning in disgust can impact a broken (eg corrupt) office/corporation/etc, even if you're not in their Game anymore.
> market products are built according to demand
Market products are built according to maximum profit.
Who needs buttons, all I/O can be performed by touch screen digitizers, we'll do anything to claim the phone has a 20-inch* screen
*diagonal**
**through all three*** spatial axes
***actually through a significant 4th one because the measurement we'll use on the CES posterboard (and consequently tech articles from journalists who held it for 30 seconds) will be made near the edge of a gravitational singularity
You're right, increasing the reward is the obvious answer.
BUT OUR SHARKCA-
Then use a rotation, use cooldowns, use a ramping reward boost that depletes.
Technically they're already doing what you specified: They regularly rotate certain modes with a trivial reward boost. It doesn't help, screams the headline. Assuming their superiors are outright refusing to increase the base yield, you'll need at least a "x20 pay for first play of day" or an accumulating boost system (other methods abound) to incentivize abandoned features/modes. They're not bad, they're just overshadowed. Make it worth his/her time, and a gamer will try all your random GTA shit. Capture the flag, domination, golf, whatever. They absolutely have the power to revive interest.
Even if they just do it once per month, it would significantly round out participation and mode activity. This would deplete from the world lobbies, which tend to lead to idleness and idle-induced fuckery, and instead shift the pie towards more game-mode habitation.
This would make your game more appealing, increase retention, even popularity... wait who cares, it has enough, the MTXing will go on.
Edit: Would*, if they sufficiently cared. Store removal will achieve their ends, temporary or long-term.
Then they'll simply remove a pipe dependency (check-in, API block, whatever) they control, rendering the un-touched MUH PROPERTY software inert.
And policing security patches on MUH PC isn't their job either.
You don't have to run safety updates, and you don't have to use Windows Defender.
Stop shooting strawmen only you built, and stop being a whiny bitch.
Myst UI, that's good, I'm keeping that.
Oh look, instead of a menu bar I have a widening arrow, a ribbon, a curled ribbon, a trio of lines, a trio of dots, and a trio of dots with double lines.
I have no fucking idea which one has the controls under "View", but even when I find it, that still won't justify the Myst button.
I'm not sure I even tolerate the usually-consistent gear/screwdriver/wrench that kindasorta manages to identify with config/prefs.
> Industry wants to provide
Is THAT what they tell shareholders the goal is?
> fair and reasonable profit
Okay, we're done here.
> an ipad IS a computer
No fucking shit, Sherlock. Parroting that is literally the silhouette Apple intended for you to hold up; by setting the stage of the word "different", their implication of "ipad is better than a computer!" emerges without being needing to be blatantly spoken.
I want to say "it's still ham-fisted and bald" but if you guys are still way fumbling through your "omg ipads ARE computers" kneejerk then Apple's mediocre play is still subtle and clever by relative measure.
Keep up so you can scorn their crude methods with something less mouthbreather.
Then slashdot should be liable since they also made me aware it exists.
Or, in your preferred term for an event comprising that action, "promoted".
It's been a long day. I needed this. Thanks.
I'm already past that snarl, and moved on to pondering whether to classify this as editors ever being the paragon of incompetence or malice.
Deliberate misinformation, or laziness? Manipulative exploitation, or just fucking stupid?
> we should proceed, automate all jobs possible to automate
Happening no matter how we feel about it.
> Would automation improve the lives of these people
Sure, if they own the factories or are a share-holder.
> potentially the only source of income available
Nonsense. The 0.001% will create demand for human ottomans, artists/poets/musicians, and a blowjob waiting list stretching halfway across shantytown. That or we'll employ three billion robot repairmen.
Seriouslytho, Prolekistan has ONE export and it's going to evaporate. The drips of tourism are a rounding error. I will assume everyone knows what happens to countries with no export.
Maybe we'll get lucky and the Omicronians will just enslave Earth. It's a slightly better outcome because at least the human race will have a step up in medicine and stuff.
No, we're pretty much blind to the opinions (operations, even) of 3letter-leading faces that long since stopped serving the interests of their citizens.
Oh. You meant the traitorous coward in the tweet.
Well, same answer, Joe Sixpack doesn't pay him much mind either.
There, I've done my good deed for the day and granted keystrokes to a tryhard.
This is fine.
DontBeAMoran, you are ugly and smell bad.
I have harassed you. So. Fucking. What.
By all means, make the definition broad. Historically, the word "harassment" has been pretty easy to qualify. This also means the word isn't worth shit.
Problem is social justice bullies trying to drag it up, probably not stopping until it's an attention-grenade more overused than "rape" tack-ons, or worse yet is groups using it to advance their agendas, e.g. take down competitors, silence critics/detractors.
A review talks shit about Juicero? Raw water? I'M BEING HARASSED INTERNET TOXICITY oh review's gone
> claims require evidence
Not only has this been waived to shit for the oligarchs, but commoners have also stopped bothering.
It's not advertising, it's helpful suggestions, it's keeping you informed of things you may be interested in, it's enhancing your shopping experience.
So you should get the Alexa Plus since it's even better at doing these, and pay us for the opportunity.
It's an opportunity, that means you'd be crazy not to take advantage, and will richly benefit when you do.
Popularity is a correlation; it directly depends on benefactors being approached by services that probably have a word like "mitigation" in their name.
They pitch noise like "Game of Thrones was downloaded 80,000 times that's one MILLION dollars of moneys, so you're losing out by not hiring us for the bargain of $50,000"
Then there's a second powerpoint at the end of the contract, "we got 40,000 super-serious emails sent which definitely means we scored you like, all the cash ever, in totally-real dollars, so sign here for another year"
Internally, the ISPs don't give a flying fuck about imaginaryproperty'R'Us or HBO, they smile and nod and say "wow yup sure we'll check it out" then continue taking a check from your residential ass for keeping shit plugged in, a cow they'd prefer to keep around (who wouldn't?) unless you're so flagrant you're a liability. At the end of the day, nothing really changes, except HBO gets fleeced. But they don't mind because pretty much everyone in the chain gets to deliver positive reports to their superiors about how much they've accomplished for the company while they played flappy crush.
So it depends on exactly which studios are signing off on active IPRUS swarm squatters, on who have C-levels that get suckered into pitches, on who are gullible enough to believe form letters equal money; on who have legal depts that are looking to preen and strut over imaginary results. But it's true that the contract frequency is proportional to popularity (budget), activity, whatever.
It's 2018 bitch, we're gonna have allegations up somewhere around "laws of physics" by April.
>limitless
Didn't TFS just say 60%?
Use more subjective words to shill.
>If you have a problem with a business, do not buy their stuff.
He said triumphantly, standing over the remains of a walmart, exulting in the success of his "do not buy their stuff" genius, hero of his local 2005 stores, which didn't shut down after self-destructive undercutting.
Either (1) that actually happened or (2) you're a dumbfuck who is ignoring reality due to reasons of malice and/or incompetence.
Here is an idea: Discuss shit that actually happens and matters in the real world.
There's definition criteria to your "free market" masturbation - y'know, that follow-up paragraph you skipped right over? That mentions definitions like consumers aware of their sourcing options?
Or having options at all.
The usual story is that developed countries, reduced poverty, public education, etc. mean very moderated birthrates emerge, even if it takes a while for the existing births (people) to expire.
This of course, is correlation to the true causality: Availability of lewds