I didn't say "get good" at guitar, I said get good at GH. I know how hard it is to play an instrument- I had 20 years playing viola and was never really good. But you can learn the basics of an instrument in a few months if you try- after that it's a lifetime before you really understand it, but that's not where I was coming from.
Can I be the only person on earth that doesn't "get" Guitar Hero? I've seen people play it on expert and even write some truly amazing user mods for it (Search for "erotomania guitar hero" on youtube) but it just doesn't make much sense. In the time it takes to get that good at GH, you could learn to play the guitar for real. (Ok, maybe not Erotomania) Personally, I suspect that folks would be more impressed with playing a real axe, even poorly, than a plastic one at Best Buy
IANAL, but I suspect it falls under the Interstate commerce clause.
In general, the feds can regulate things like this because the alternative is total destruction of the asset. Without some kind of central control, everyone gets to play and they stomp all over each other. Sure, you can set up a transmitter, but then so can your neighbor, and he can do it at the same frequency and a higher power. Neither of you can stop your transmissions from bleeding over onto the guy two streets down. (Of course, even with the FCC around this doesn't always work, especially if you are a small, public university station and there's a huge religious broadcaster who is willing to bend the rules).
Oh yeah, and the government does regulate the air you breathe. Clean Air Act anyone? You're arguably paying for it in higher power and automobile costs.
Back in the day, before unions, houses were built by the thousands with bricks. Not because they were the best, or the cheapest, but because it was the style. The bricklayers, feeling that they were being grifted, unionized, as was the style of the time. Very quickly the cost of building with bricks became too prohibitive, and the bricklayers mostly lost their jobs. Overall society didn't hurt too much, but it had a large impact on the southern California economy.
Southern California? Having lived there, I can tell you unionization had very little to do with not having brick houses. California doesn't have brick houses because they fall down in earthquakes.
I've actually used a derivative of the Xerox system in the quote above- I did my postdoc at Xerox XRCC. It is *very* different from the system used by either Apple or Microsoft- it was not context sensitive pop-up menus, it really was "This button selects, this confirms, this cancels" It sucked. (Well, it was revolutionary in ~1975, but by 1995 it was waaay behind the times)
The quote above is discussing the bad way of doing things, not RMB context sensitive pop up menus. There is no button confusion then- you get instant visual feedback about the action you just took. It's not anywhere near as hard to confuse.
Back around 85, i tried to teach my girlfriend (now wife) to use a mouse. She simply could not double click reliably- she would click and in the process nudge the mouse, moving the icon and cancelling the double click. I saw this from other folks as well back then- it was very hard for a lot of people to learn. Utterly horrible design. Then you get into the contortions needed to do simple actions with only one button. Will the file move or copy when you drag it? "Well, it depends on if the target folder is on another volume" Bad design. How do you get info on a file? Single click+apple-I? Yeah, that's a winner.
Now do it with a RMB click. RMB->Open RMB->Copy RMB->Move RMB->Properties. Consistent, easy. Indeed, you can see what options are even available with one context-sensitive click, rather than select and scrub through menus until you find it.
"But you don't get confused with one button!" Bull- folks back then were used to dealing with much more complicated interfaces. My wife is totally non-technical and doesn't get along well with computers, but was perfectly capable of writing WP5.1 for DOS macros. It wasn't confusion- it was simple muscle learning that was the issue. Right click was a lot easier to learn than "Select and look through menus" or even double click.
Umm, how? It's a bit tough to snare things moving at kilometers/second relative to your velocity, even assuming that there is something strong enough to grab on to in a comet. If it's not moving at kps relative, then you don't gain anything anyway- you've expended the energy to fly in formation with it.
You want free energy for spaceflight? There are better ways
It's what my boss does with his iPhone. It works even if it's a bit clunky.
I had hopes for the shadow too, ditto the blackjack. Some of the other directors at work talked me into a AT&T 8525 and despite all the hype it sucks too. It's a freaking brick, especially with the extended life battery , a lousy phone that you can't dial by feel and a crappy web browser.
Is it too much to ask for a phone that I can fit in a front pants pocket, dial by feel with hard buttons and that can also sync to Outlook? My personal Katana is a great phone- if I could just get email on it I'd ditch the brick.
Bioshock is art, as are many other video games. It may be a different kind of art than a painting, a novel, a piece of music or a movie (indeed, it combines all four) but it's still art.
The real question: is it *good* art? Nobody will deny that a painting or a novel is art, but 99% of all of them are crap. Good art provokes a response- you think about it and remember it later, and not just because you managed to frag some noob thirteen times in a row. Video games for the most part have not reached this state. I can only think of a few that merit the title "Good art" that tell stories that are interesting enough to reach that goal.
As many have pointed out, there are a whole pile of applications that do the same thing for amateur telescopes. I've taken my Dad's 40-year-old 6" Dynascope, fixed up the motor drive, bought a $60 webcam (Philips SPC900), adapter and UV filter and gotten some quite nice photos of the Sun, the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn by capturing a few thousand frames and running them through Registax. (I'm working on Mars and Uranus- a whole lot harder with a small scope from a suburban backyard.)
I'm curious though about how they deal with some of the "features" you get to see with this technique. It's *very* easy to stack a few hundred images, run Registax's sharpening filter and get some interesting pictures of stuff that doesn't really exist. I'm not sure I really trust the fine detail in my photos- unless I see it in another taken a few hours later it may well not be real.
They think the Washington Post and Newsweek are liberal.
I really wish these folks would live in another country for a few months and read the local rags. Even Canada has mainstream papers that would give your average Fox viewer a stroke. What Americans consider liberal most of Europe would consider center-right, and we don't even have anything mainstream they would consider leftist.
Personally, I like The Economist's version of liberal, but that usage is so odd on this side of the pond that most Americans would strip a mental gear or two if they actually managed to read through an article.
No. Schaeffer has a book out ("One Jump Ahead") about writing Chinook. He thought the same when he started, but the project got rapidly far harder than he thought. It helped that the existing human champion (Marion Tinsley) was literally as close to perfection as any human has ever been at any game- they exhaustively studied every professional game he ever played and found something like a grand total of 10 actual mistakes in a 40 year career.
It's a very sad book in many ways- there was a lot of tension between certain members of the team and you realized that professional checkers was dying rapidly. Tinsley and Schaffer set up a world championship rematch between them (Tinsely won the first one) and Tinsely pulled out after six games saying he felt ill. He checked himself into the hospital, was diagnosed with some aggressive form of cancer and died a few months later. Schaeffer basically retired Chinook from human tournaments since nobody else was even remotely close to Tinsley.
It didn't make many headlines because everyone knows checkers is easy. Except that they are wrong- it's not.
Are you sure about that? While I obviously don't know any details of the discussions between "freeware" AV companies and PC makers, I doubt that AVG would let the company bulk-install even the freeware AVG version. They would probably treat installing it on 100k computers as a corporate install, and AVG charges for those.
Norton is only willing to pay to put their version on since it's crippled and they expect people to pay up when the trial ends. It's a lot different when giving someone a full featured, uncrippled version- it costs AVG money since they have to pay for the bandwidth & servers for updates if nothing else.
pop ups now. Just imagine what it would look like on a typical/.'ers drive
"*Bip* See Natalie Portman naked!"
"*Bip* Hot nude women!"
"*Bip* All amateur action!"
"*Bip* Hot midget-on-'67 Red Sox pitcher action!"
"*Bip* Come on, quit pretending. We know you have 137GB of meticulously sorted porn, we're just pointing you where you would go anyway!"
Then the ZDNet jerkoff has the gall to complain that AMD didn't use the latest SPEC.org numbers. Well, duh. RUNNING benchmarks means just that: running them. You get the actual machines you want to compare, scrupulously make all the software as identical as possible, and let 'em rip. You DO NOT just grab random numbers generated by random software off a random website, no matter how impressive the numbers claim to be.
You don't understand how SPEC works, do you? It's *not* a benchmark you just download and run and post the results everywhere. For a result to appear on SPEC's site, you have to buy the (expensive) suite, document everything about the machine, have SPEC vet the results and pay $500 a result to even appear in the tables. Core clock ratios and the rest matter not at all- all that matters is the final score on a set of tasks designed to mimic difficult real world problems.
In the world of scientific computing, SPEC numbers matter a lot when looking at machines, and vendors spend a lot of time trying to get to the top of the tables, but since the numbers are vetted by the organization, it's a *lot* harder to cheat. (Cheating tends to be more "Intel tuned their compiler to give good results on this part of the suite, but nobody else can use that optimization")
AMD is trying to pull a fast one here. As an AMD fan, I'm annoyed
I saw a lot of comments about that on the talkback section
Perhaps you'd like to actually address the complaint? Seemed pretty solid to me- Intel has used the best available, hard-to-cheat-on benchmark out there (SPEC) and gotten results. AMD is posting old results for Intel, results for AMD processors that don't exist yet and ignoring the best possible Intel products. Yes, it's advertising, but it's pretty crappy advertising, bordering on the deliberately deceptive. I'm a longtime fan of AMD- my home machines are AMD, I own stock in AMD, but crap like this makes me think about selling. If AMD is this desperate, they are in serious crapola
Oblivion's designers had a good idea and took it too far- you should be able to access the entire world at all times but still always have a challenge. Thus, the difficulty of the critters you met would scale up as you got more powerful, so you'd always be challenged but not overwhelmed.
Sounds great, except that it lead to some real problems. You could complete the game's main questline while at level 2- it was quite easy then since you fought absurdly easy monsters the whole way. Conversely,if you were high level you would constantly meet bandits on the road who would be decked out in epic-quality items such as full Daedric armor. Why a generic highwayman would be wearing armor that even the highest level characters in Morrowind would have trouble getting was a bit of a puzzle.
There have been a lot of user patches to try and address this, mostly by capping the level and equipment of many of the random encounters and upping the difficulty on end game encounters.
Everyone hates gold sellers and farmers. But we had an interesting question in our WoW guild a few months back.
The guild leader was absurdly hardcore for a while. She had a number of lvl60 characters and had time to farm like a zombie. She also learned to play the auction house like a piano, cornering markets and the like. The end result was that she had something over 100,000 GP- *before* the expansion. It was so much gold she couldn't even transfer the characters between servers since you can only move something like 10k gold/char.
She had started anew on our server and didn't know what to do with the old toons. She checked a gold seller site and it came out that they would offer her something over $10k for the gold. So she asked us if she should sell.
I think the answer was a unanimous "Of course! You'd be stupid not to." I don't know what ever happened- she's on long term leave right now finishing a dissertation so perhaps she sold everything:^)
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Since their HD failure rate is so high due to the thin, cold air, why are they even using them? You can buy fully solid state flash hard drives these days. The capacity is limited and they are expensive, but it's nothing compared to a trip up Everest. Buy a bunch of the 64GB ones, spend some time cutting down a copy of Windows to the absolute mininmum that you can work with and you'll still have space for Photoshop, some video editing stuff and the content.
Those of us old enough to remember actual board games have a few wierd ones too. (See the "Murphy's Rules" section in old Dragon magazines)
My two favorites (I have both games)
You can't commit suicide with a.45 magnum in Car Wars. People have 3 hit points- 1 wounds you, 2 makes you unconcious and 3 kills you. A heavy pistol does 2 points of damage...
In a civil war game about the battle of Pea Ridge, there's a rule called "Designer's Great Great Grandfather". The DGGG was an officer in one confederate unit in the game. Every time that unit takes damage, you have to see if the DGGG is killed. If so, the game ends instantly without a winner since it's obvious the game couldn't possibly exist
jRPGs/console RPGs are a different genre and a different market. aRPGs either need to either jump onboard with the MMO stuff, or learn a few things about story and character development from their friends across the Pacific. Both genres have merrit and a strong future, single-player, non-linear RPGs, however, do not. Elder Scrolls, I'm looking at YOU!
Yeah, I mean, Oblivion only sold 3M copies, it's obvious that the single player non-linear RPG is doomed!
I must admit I'm a bit confused why you think Morrowind/Oblivion don't have strong stories. They do. In fact, most of the single-player "western" RPGs I can think of have *better* stories than the jRPGs I can think of- Fallout, Planetscape Torment, Icewind dale, etc. There aren't a lot of them since they are hard to make- the people who like them demand massive amounts of content, multiple plot lines and actual (re)playability, and sales figures for those that don't measure up suck. jRPGs don't have to worry about most of that- it's much more canned. You don't have to figure out six different ways to finish every questline to avoid pissing off the guy who went stealth and couldn't steal the Frobizz of Justice- you're just going to watch the pretty graphics and develop your character into the same one everyone else has.
I know you're trying to be sarcastic, but you're failing.
Books *last*. My wife and I have a number of books in our library that are 100-150 years old. Still perfectly readable- they haven't been made unavailable by changes in format, lost DRM keys, etc. They are also easily transferrable- 15 seconds at a used book shop and it's yours- no worries about incompatible readers, DRM clashes, etc.
They also are relatively cheap, more durable than electronics, don't need batteries and are much easier on the eyes. And yes, I've gone out and rebought books that were damaged, lost, "borrowed" or ones where I just wanted a better binding. I'll take that over DRM anyday.
1) Sum the upload/download speeds when we're talking about >X Mbps. 1.5M down, 56k up with a ton of latency (Sat connection) should not count as broadband.
2) Force providers to actually meter the real speeds and report that average. A 3Mbps cable connection that's shared by hordes of gamers/video watchers/porn downloaders isn't really 3Mbps.
3) Force them to report the cap on total download volume and not be able to claim any bps speed greater than that cap/2592000. (2592000 Seconds/30-day month)
Truth in advertising. That said, I've been pretty happy with my 1.5M down/384k up Verizon DSL line, since I can't seem to hit any cap and I actually get close to the rated speed when I test it. Wouldn't count as "broadband" under this rule, but it's good enough for me right now.
/g "Hey guys, I'm stuck on a desert island in RL. Could someone please send a rescue party?"
Sadly, this would probably be followed by
/g "No, my hearthstone is not set for Virginia"
/g "No, I *don't* have my flying mount with me. This is real life. Please send a rescue party ASAP (and some beer)"
/g "Damnit, no, I can't cast Underwater Breathing on me and swim out. I'm not a warlock in real life guys."
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I didn't say "get good" at guitar, I said get good at GH. I know how hard it is to play an instrument- I had 20 years playing viola and was never really good. But you can learn the basics of an instrument in a few months if you try- after that it's a lifetime before you really understand it, but that's not where I was coming from.
Can I be the only person on earth that doesn't "get" Guitar Hero? I've seen people play it on expert and even write some truly amazing user mods for it (Search for "erotomania guitar hero" on youtube) but it just doesn't make much sense. In the time it takes to get that good at GH, you could learn to play the guitar for real. (Ok, maybe not Erotomania) Personally, I suspect that folks would be more impressed with playing a real axe, even poorly, than a plastic one at Best Buy
In general, the feds can regulate things like this because the alternative is total destruction of the asset. Without some kind of central control, everyone gets to play and they stomp all over each other. Sure, you can set up a transmitter, but then so can your neighbor, and he can do it at the same frequency and a higher power. Neither of you can stop your transmissions from bleeding over onto the guy two streets down. (Of course, even with the FCC around this doesn't always work, especially if you are a small, public university station and there's a huge religious broadcaster who is willing to bend the rules).
Oh yeah, and the government does regulate the air you breathe. Clean Air Act anyone? You're arguably paying for it in higher power and automobile costs.
Southern California? Having lived there, I can tell you unionization had very little to do with not having brick houses. California doesn't have brick houses because they fall down in earthquakes.
The quote above is discussing the bad way of doing things, not RMB context sensitive pop up menus. There is no button confusion then- you get instant visual feedback about the action you just took. It's not anywhere near as hard to confuse.
Compare apples to apples and let's try again.
Back around 85, i tried to teach my girlfriend (now wife) to use a mouse. She simply could not double click reliably- she would click and in the process nudge the mouse, moving the icon and cancelling the double click. I saw this from other folks as well back then- it was very hard for a lot of people to learn. Utterly horrible design. Then you get into the contortions needed to do simple actions with only one button. Will the file move or copy when you drag it? "Well, it depends on if the target folder is on another volume" Bad design. How do you get info on a file? Single click+apple-I? Yeah, that's a winner.
Now do it with a RMB click. RMB->Open RMB->Copy RMB->Move RMB->Properties. Consistent, easy. Indeed, you can see what options are even available with one context-sensitive click, rather than select and scrub through menus until you find it.
"But you don't get confused with one button!" Bull- folks back then were used to dealing with much more complicated interfaces. My wife is totally non-technical and doesn't get along well with computers, but was perfectly capable of writing WP5.1 for DOS macros. It wasn't confusion- it was simple muscle learning that was the issue. Right click was a lot easier to learn than "Select and look through menus" or even double click.
You want free energy for spaceflight? There are better ways
I had hopes for the shadow too, ditto the blackjack. Some of the other directors at work talked me into a AT&T 8525 and despite all the hype it sucks too. It's a freaking brick, especially with the extended life battery , a lousy phone that you can't dial by feel and a crappy web browser.
Is it too much to ask for a phone that I can fit in a front pants pocket, dial by feel with hard buttons and that can also sync to Outlook? My personal Katana is a great phone- if I could just get email on it I'd ditch the brick.
Emacs vs. that malodorous heap of ferret dropping posing as a text editor, vi.
(Oh, and Amigas suck!)
The real question: is it *good* art? Nobody will deny that a painting or a novel is art, but 99% of all of them are crap. Good art provokes a response- you think about it and remember it later, and not just because you managed to frag some noob thirteen times in a row. Video games for the most part have not reached this state. I can only think of a few that merit the title "Good art" that tell stories that are interesting enough to reach that goal.
I'm curious though about how they deal with some of the "features" you get to see with this technique. It's *very* easy to stack a few hundred images, run Registax's sharpening filter and get some interesting pictures of stuff that doesn't really exist. I'm not sure I really trust the fine detail in my photos- unless I see it in another taken a few hours later it may well not be real.
I really wish these folks would live in another country for a few months and read the local rags. Even Canada has mainstream papers that would give your average Fox viewer a stroke. What Americans consider liberal most of Europe would consider center-right, and we don't even have anything mainstream they would consider leftist.
Personally, I like The Economist's version of liberal, but that usage is so odd on this side of the pond that most Americans would strip a mental gear or two if they actually managed to read through an article.
It's a very sad book in many ways- there was a lot of tension between certain members of the team and you realized that professional checkers was dying rapidly. Tinsley and Schaffer set up a world championship rematch between them (Tinsely won the first one) and Tinsely pulled out after six games saying he felt ill. He checked himself into the hospital, was diagnosed with some aggressive form of cancer and died a few months later. Schaeffer basically retired Chinook from human tournaments since nobody else was even remotely close to Tinsley.
It didn't make many headlines because everyone knows checkers is easy. Except that they are wrong- it's not.
Are you sure about that? While I obviously don't know any details of the discussions between "freeware" AV companies and PC makers, I doubt that AVG would let the company bulk-install even the freeware AVG version. They would probably treat installing it on 100k computers as a corporate install, and AVG charges for those.
Norton is only willing to pay to put their version on since it's crippled and they expect people to pay up when the trial ends. It's a lot different when giving someone a full featured, uncrippled version- it costs AVG money since they have to pay for the bandwidth & servers for updates if nothing else.
"*Bip* See Natalie Portman naked!"
"*Bip* Hot nude women!"
"*Bip* All amateur action!"
"*Bip* Hot midget-on-'67 Red Sox pitcher action!"
"*Bip* Come on, quit pretending. We know you have 137GB of meticulously sorted porn, we're just pointing you where you would go anyway!"
You don't understand how SPEC works, do you? It's *not* a benchmark you just download and run and post the results everywhere. For a result to appear on SPEC's site, you have to buy the (expensive) suite, document everything about the machine, have SPEC vet the results and pay $500 a result to even appear in the tables. Core clock ratios and the rest matter not at all- all that matters is the final score on a set of tasks designed to mimic difficult real world problems.
In the world of scientific computing, SPEC numbers matter a lot when looking at machines, and vendors spend a lot of time trying to get to the top of the tables, but since the numbers are vetted by the organization, it's a *lot* harder to cheat. (Cheating tends to be more "Intel tuned their compiler to give good results on this part of the suite, but nobody else can use that optimization")
AMD is trying to pull a fast one here. As an AMD fan, I'm annoyed
Perhaps you'd like to actually address the complaint? Seemed pretty solid to me- Intel has used the best available, hard-to-cheat-on benchmark out there (SPEC) and gotten results. AMD is posting old results for Intel, results for AMD processors that don't exist yet and ignoring the best possible Intel products. Yes, it's advertising, but it's pretty crappy advertising, bordering on the deliberately deceptive. I'm a longtime fan of AMD- my home machines are AMD, I own stock in AMD, but crap like this makes me think about selling. If AMD is this desperate, they are in serious crapola
Sounds great, except that it lead to some real problems. You could complete the game's main questline while at level 2- it was quite easy then since you fought absurdly easy monsters the whole way. Conversely,if you were high level you would constantly meet bandits on the road who would be decked out in epic-quality items such as full Daedric armor. Why a generic highwayman would be wearing armor that even the highest level characters in Morrowind would have trouble getting was a bit of a puzzle.
There have been a lot of user patches to try and address this, mostly by capping the level and equipment of many of the random encounters and upping the difficulty on end game encounters.
The guild leader was absurdly hardcore for a while. She had a number of lvl60 characters and had time to farm like a zombie. She also learned to play the auction house like a piano, cornering markets and the like. The end result was that she had something over 100,000 GP- *before* the expansion. It was so much gold she couldn't even transfer the characters between servers since you can only move something like 10k gold/char.
She had started anew on our server and didn't know what to do with the old toons. She checked a gold seller site and it came out that they would offer her something over $10k for the gold. So she asked us if she should sell.
I think the answer was a unanimous "Of course! You'd be stupid not to." I don't know what ever happened- she's on long term leave right now finishing a dissertation so perhaps she sold everything :^)
Since their HD failure rate is so high due to the thin, cold air, why are they even using them? You can buy fully solid state flash hard drives these days. The capacity is limited and they are expensive, but it's nothing compared to a trip up Everest. Buy a bunch of the 64GB ones, spend some time cutting down a copy of Windows to the absolute mininmum that you can work with and you'll still have space for Photoshop, some video editing stuff and the content.
My two favorites (I have both games)
You can't commit suicide with a .45 magnum in Car Wars. People have 3 hit points- 1 wounds you, 2 makes you unconcious and 3 kills you. A heavy pistol does 2 points of damage...
In a civil war game about the battle of Pea Ridge, there's a rule called "Designer's Great Great Grandfather". The DGGG was an officer in one confederate unit in the game. Every time that unit takes damage, you have to see if the DGGG is killed. If so, the game ends instantly without a winner since it's obvious the game couldn't possibly exist
Yeah, I mean, Oblivion only sold 3M copies, it's obvious that the single player non-linear RPG is doomed!
I must admit I'm a bit confused why you think Morrowind/Oblivion don't have strong stories. They do. In fact, most of the single-player "western" RPGs I can think of have *better* stories than the jRPGs I can think of- Fallout, Planetscape Torment, Icewind dale, etc. There aren't a lot of them since they are hard to make- the people who like them demand massive amounts of content, multiple plot lines and actual (re)playability, and sales figures for those that don't measure up suck. jRPGs don't have to worry about most of that- it's much more canned. You don't have to figure out six different ways to finish every questline to avoid pissing off the guy who went stealth and couldn't steal the Frobizz of Justice- you're just going to watch the pretty graphics and develop your character into the same one everyone else has.
Books *last*. My wife and I have a number of books in our library that are 100-150 years old. Still perfectly readable- they haven't been made unavailable by changes in format, lost DRM keys, etc. They are also easily transferrable- 15 seconds at a used book shop and it's yours- no worries about incompatible readers, DRM clashes, etc.
They also are relatively cheap, more durable than electronics, don't need batteries and are much easier on the eyes. And yes, I've gone out and rebought books that were damaged, lost, "borrowed" or ones where I just wanted a better binding. I'll take that over DRM anyday.
2) Force providers to actually meter the real speeds and report that average. A 3Mbps cable connection that's shared by hordes of gamers/video watchers/porn downloaders isn't really 3Mbps.
3) Force them to report the cap on total download volume and not be able to claim any bps speed greater than that cap/2592000. (2592000 Seconds/30-day month)
Truth in advertising. That said, I've been pretty happy with my 1.5M down/384k up Verizon DSL line, since I can't seem to hit any cap and I actually get close to the rated speed when I test it. Wouldn't count as "broadband" under this rule, but it's good enough for me right now.
Sadly, this would probably be followed by
/g "No, my hearthstone is not set for Virginia"
/g "No, I *don't* have my flying mount with me. This is real life. Please send a rescue party ASAP (and some beer)"
/g "Damnit, no, I can't cast Underwater Breathing on me and swim out. I'm not a warlock in real life guys."