In terms of Role Playing Games, I have two choices:
1) Move on, remembering them fondly 2) Become "that old guy"
I play in 2 gaming groups. In one group, the ages are: 60ish, 60ish, 48, 43 (me), 43, early-30s, late-20s. The other group is 5 people all in the 40-44 range. I've been playing with these groups since 1984 and 1982 respectively.
I never had to choose either of your choices, but maybe I'm just lucky...
More than just the cognoscenti. My parents have an ASCII-art 'photo' of my sisters and me, from (I think) the late 70s. I think I remember them getting it from a photographer with a booth in a mall. I'll have to try to find it, I'm curious to know what year that actually was.
Phew. I was beginning to worry, because I had read most of the comments and seen not a single "At the Mountains of Madness' reference. Surprising to see so many Clark references when HPL is so much more appropriate in this case...
I think the next step for democracies is to scrap the party system and have voting based on particular policies, not on some nebulous notion of a "party platform". The common system of voting in a bunch of drongos every few years and writing to representatives and hope they'll support your views is far from ideal, and modern technology makes it quite feasible to enable voters to have a much more direct say on particular issues.
I agree, that's a great idea, in principal. I doubt that any politician, even assuming an honest one, perfectly represents my views.
The big problem, though, is that 1) parties will form no matter what, and 2) few people have the time to become knowledgeable enough about every issue to make in informed vote. For example, I heard on NPR the other morning, that a temporary speed limit for boats on my state's big lake will be made permanent. I think it was 45mph during the day and 25mph at night. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I have no idea; I'm not a boater, and live far away from the lake. If it were put to a vote I'd have to either abstain or get advice from someone whose opinion I trust. If lots of people begin taking the advice from people they 'trust', this begins to resemble a party system again...
When an error occurs in our application, an error screen full of useful debugging information pops up. The user can't get past it without entering a 'daily code' (basically a hash involving the customer ID number and today's date). They have to call our customer support to get that information.
They can get past it by killing the application, or rebooting, but they will be unable to log back into our software until the user's account is unflagged as 'logged in', which also requires a call to support and entry of this daily code.
We do this because certain kinds of errors require data files to be cleaned up, and that's not something we can always do in an automated fashion.
p = parrots.Parrot(parrots.NORWEGIAN|parrots.BLUE)
for fjord in fjords.all(): p.pine(fjord)
Traceback (most recent call last): File "parrot.py", line 4, in <module> p.pine(fjord) AttributeError: 'ParrotType' object has shuffled off this mortal coil
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Also, the extraterrestrial matter of which they are composed doesn't show up in screen shots.
Mod parent Offtopeka.
No, that would be a movie called "AFD1".
So then, Mono is some form of STD?
"Beware, I live."
I used to announce that upon logging in to some games.
I closed on a house this morning, so I'm not springing for anything any time soon. :-)
However, I am DMing in one of the groups at the moment, so maybe I'll let them find a +5 Pizza of Wounding or something along those lines...
In terms of Role Playing Games, I have two choices:
1) Move on, remembering them fondly
2) Become "that old guy"
I play in 2 gaming groups. In one group, the ages are: 60ish, 60ish, 48, 43 (me), 43, early-30s, late-20s. The other group is 5 people all in the 40-44 range. I've been playing with these groups since 1984 and 1982 respectively.
I never had to choose either of your choices, but maybe I'm just lucky...
And de-activation process will begin with pressing the 'Start' button...
More than just the cognoscenti. My parents have an ASCII-art 'photo' of my sisters and me, from (I think) the late 70s. I think I remember them getting it from a photographer with a booth in a mall. I'll have to try to find it, I'm curious to know what year that actually was.
I don't remember Stephen R. Donaldson writing that the Ramen ate noodles...
Curse you, you're supposed to put "SPOILER ALERT" in the subject line!
I think with one of these and some glue, and I could build a skyscraper out of the dust in my apartment, I'm finding as I prepare to move out...
Phew. I was beginning to worry, because I had read most of the comments and seen not a single "At the Mountains of Madness' reference. Surprising to see so many Clark references when HPL is so much more appropriate in this case...
I'm sorry, but this idea is about as useful as a box of hair...
Hair Scanners -- the New Toupée of Biometrics?
I think the next step for democracies is to scrap the party system and have voting based on particular policies, not on some nebulous notion of a "party platform". The common system of voting in a bunch of drongos every few years and writing to representatives and hope they'll support your views is far from ideal, and modern technology makes it quite feasible to enable voters to have a much more direct say on particular issues.
I agree, that's a great idea, in principal. I doubt that any politician, even assuming an honest one, perfectly represents my views.
The big problem, though, is that 1) parties will form no matter what, and 2) few people have the time to become knowledgeable enough about every issue to make in informed vote. For example, I heard on NPR the other morning, that a temporary speed limit for boats on my state's big lake will be made permanent. I think it was 45mph during the day and 25mph at night. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I have no idea; I'm not a boater, and live far away from the lake. If it were put to a vote I'd have to either abstain or get advice from someone whose opinion I trust. If lots of people begin taking the advice from people they 'trust', this begins to resemble a party system again...
Your comment reminded me of this.
Yeah, and it doesn't take a Kwisatz Haderach to foresee that religion will be around for a long time...
What if it's a PowerMac?
World Wide War?
It's ok, you can post a make-up joke.
When an error occurs in our application, an error screen full of useful debugging information pops up. The user can't get past it without entering a 'daily code' (basically a hash involving the customer ID number and today's date). They have to call our customer support to get that information.
They can get past it by killing the application, or rebooting, but they will be unable to log back into our software until the user's account is unflagged as 'logged in', which also requires a call to support and entry of this daily code.
We do this because certain kinds of errors require data files to be cleaned up, and that's not something we can always do in an automated fashion.
Oops, mismoderated this, sorry.
That nicely sums up the last 25 years or so of Microsoft :-).
I am not exclusively coding in Python, but I do as much in it as I can. Probably about 80% Python and 20% Visual FoxPro, these days.
import parrots, fjords
p = parrots.Parrot(parrots.NORWEGIAN|parrots.BLUE)
for fjord in fjords.all():
p.pine(fjord)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "parrot.py", line 4, in <module>
p.pine(fjord)
AttributeError: 'ParrotType' object has shuffled off this mortal coil