In my mind, the jump the shark moment for EverQuest was when they changed the ogre and troll models from their cool designs and turned them into tall, mildly misshapen humans. And then turned that on as the default model.
Ha. In any case, I'll bet the government impetus to clamp down on this is more driven by an inability to collect taxes than inherent legal disapproval of the activities.
In other words, console gamers are starting to panic as game production shifts to tablets, waaah waaaah waaaah.
Where were you when games shifted from PCs to consoles, a vastly inferior game design and experience? Playing a FPS with a clumsy controller instead of keyboard and mouse is like building a ship in a bottle, struggling with inadequate tools to do something cool. And the lack of dozens of powers available at once. Duke Nukem can carry only 2 weapons at once? Amy Poehler: Really?
Most of the recent PC MMORPGs are console designs -- Star Wars: The Old Republic, Champions Online, DC Universe Online (the last 2 superhero ones; meanwhile City of Heroes is cancelled...by the company that owns Champions Online).
Where's that guy who likes copulating with rancid, festering rectums? I need to borrow some of his phraseology.
"he and his team failed to get a commercial broadcast permit (costing about 2 grand)"
"A permit that was meant to deal with ecological repercussions, doesn't seem to apply in this case."
Of course it applies in this case. Track the flow of hard western cash in the hands of state officials in a dictatorship.
useful idiot : n A person in the free west buying into the sappy cover stories justifying the gaining and maintaining of power of dictators. origin Jos. Stalin
What concerns the widdle minds of people changes over the decades, but the real behaviors do not.
In Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge talks about a hypothetical technology to digitize books that involves sending them through a shredder which flings the confetti up in the air where high-speed, high-res cameras digitize it and the computers de-puzzle piece it.
The folks who made USENET got it right when they made their hierarchy big endian (e.g. rec.arts.sf.starwars.games). You start from the biggest concept and narrow it down with each additional word
Ohhhhhhhhhh, alt.sex.hamsters.duct-tape. I get it now!
It's not a video feed of 3D rendered elsewhere. It's shifting intensive calculations that need only be updated rarely to the server, thisch would then presumably transmit ready-to-render pieces that would plug right in with the main scene rendering.
And towards the end of the article were links for further studies, like "Eel Shoved Up Man's Anus Eats Its Way Through His Intestines", but I'm not doing any more of your homework, and you'll just have to click on them yourself, good sir.
Sure. I performed an experiment called Read The Fucking Article (RTFA), which yielded this curious observation:
First of all, the grave Richard III was placed in was “badly prepared,” which, the researchers from the University of Leicester said, suggests gravediggers were in something of a rush to get the corpse underground.
It was found approximately 73 mm from the entrance to TFA, not very far in. Note the use of the phrase "First of all", which provides supporting evidence that it was near the entrance.
In his situation you have to risk the time, is it worth it? Will public groundswell save you if you are found out? Neither Wikileaks, nor any intermediary can be held responsible under the First Amendment unless they bribed or coerced him somehow.
But reporters, they're just receiving this info. It should be protected under this super search warrant.
I hope these past few weeks have been instructive in the wisdom of forbidding government certain powers on principle. It will be misused. Don't fall into the trap that, well, it's OK because it's my guy wielding the power. Some day, the shoe will be on the other foot. See also the "nuclear option" in the Senate. The Republicans almost got rid of it not too long ago.
People of every age like to disasterbate about how bad it is. Yet every objective measure continues to show increasing lifespans and quality of life. Hell, our worst problem now is too many cheap calories per person, throwing a monkey wrench into one of the most historically useful measurements.
These indicators all scale directly with economic freedom, regardless of political narratives of either party. Hell, there shouldn't even be political narratives anymore. We have solved the problem: let people be free.
In other words, what should happen: "Too big to fail" is BS, and they should go out of business.
What actually happens: Government and business team up to fleece everybody.
So: "I call your bluff. If they are too big to fail, break them up." and let's see what the businessmen think about that, and the government officials they donate to. Let's play the rhetoric game on their terms for a change.
"Too big to fail" is a government determination driven by politics and the powerful. Bank shareholders don't wanna lose money, and government officials wanna look like they're doing something. So they form this unholy, age-old partnership to carve up everyone elses' money to their mutual benefit. Far from changing behavior, it's encouraging risky behavior that will some day require another guaranteed bailout (in spite of government protestations they will never do it again, not no way, not no how). Because of this cynical behavior, you now have economic conservatives like George Will calling for the unthinkable: government intervention to break up "too big to fail" entities.
He's never directly said so, but I suspect it's less some newfound limited respect for government regulation rather than a cynical stab at that unholy alliance of government and unethical businessmen using government, with full knowledge and encouragement by said officials.
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In my mind, the jump the shark moment for EverQuest was when they changed the ogre and troll models from their cool designs and turned them into tall, mildly misshapen humans. And then turned that on as the default model.
More from the speech:
Thank you,Dean Martin,
President Sinclair...
and members
of the graduating class.
I have only one thing
to say to you today...
it's a jungle out there.
You gotta look out
for number one.
But don't step in number two.
And so,
to all you graduates...
as you go out into the world
my advice to you is...
don't go!
It's rough out there.
Move back with your parents.
Let them worry about it.
Hey, everybody! We're all programmers. Let's never get laid!
Live by the sword...
Ha. In any case, I'll bet the government impetus to clamp down on this is more driven by an inability to collect taxes than inherent legal disapproval of the activities.
Boba Fett wasn't in it, either, and he's the character they used in the picture.
In other words, console gamers are starting to panic as game production shifts to tablets, waaah waaaah waaaah.
Where were you when games shifted from PCs to consoles, a vastly inferior game design and experience? Playing a FPS with a clumsy controller instead of keyboard and mouse is like building a ship in a bottle, struggling with inadequate tools to do something cool. And the lack of dozens of powers available at once. Duke Nukem can carry only 2 weapons at once? Amy Poehler: Really?
Most of the recent PC MMORPGs are console designs -- Star Wars: The Old Republic, Champions Online, DC Universe Online (the last 2 superhero ones; meanwhile City of Heroes is cancelled...by the company that owns Champions Online).
Where's that guy who likes copulating with rancid, festering rectums? I need to borrow some of his phraseology.
Of course it applies in this case. Track the flow of hard western cash in the hands of state officials in a dictatorship.
useful idiot : n A person in the free west buying into the sappy cover stories justifying the gaining and maintaining of power of dictators. origin Jos. Stalin
What concerns the widdle minds of people changes over the decades, but the real behaviors do not.
And the billboards in Europe are mostly, in the local language, "New from America! (some porn service nobody's heard of in the US)"
Christians claim Jesus is also the God of Abraham, and that's obviously not true from scriptures, too.
Jes' sayin'.
In Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge talks about a hypothetical technology to digitize books that involves sending them through a shredder which flings the confetti up in the air where high-speed, high-res cameras digitize it and the computers de-puzzle piece it.
Ohhhhhhhhhh, alt.sex.hamsters.duct-tape. I get it now!
Does it really matter? Robotic ovipositors aren't natural, either, but as near as I can tell from Internet research, will be very popular.
It's not a video feed of 3D rendered elsewhere. It's shifting intensive calculations that need only be updated rarely to the server, thisch would then presumably transmit ready-to-render pieces that would plug right in with the main scene rendering.
And towards the end of the article were links for further studies, like "Eel Shoved Up Man's Anus Eats Its Way Through His Intestines", but I'm not doing any more of your homework, and you'll just have to click on them yourself, good sir.
Sure. I performed an experiment called Read The Fucking Article (RTFA), which yielded this curious observation:
It was found approximately 73 mm from the entrance to TFA, not very far in. Note the use of the phrase "First of all", which provides supporting evidence that it was near the entrance.
In his situation you have to risk the time, is it worth it? Will public groundswell save you if you are found out? Neither Wikileaks, nor any intermediary can be held responsible under the First Amendment unless they bribed or coerced him somehow.
But reporters, they're just receiving this info. It should be protected under this super search warrant.
I hope these past few weeks have been instructive in the wisdom of forbidding government certain powers on principle. It will be misused. Don't fall into the trap that, well, it's OK because it's my guy wielding the power. Some day, the shoe will be on the other foot. See also the "nuclear option" in the Senate. The Republicans almost got rid of it not too long ago.
People of every age like to disasterbate about how bad it is. Yet every objective measure continues to show increasing lifespans and quality of life. Hell, our worst problem now is too many cheap calories per person, throwing a monkey wrench into one of the most historically useful measurements.
These indicators all scale directly with economic freedom, regardless of political narratives of either party. Hell, there shouldn't even be political narratives anymore. We have solved the problem: let people be free.
I say there's probably a Tumblr page for you.
> Qi (pronounced "chee")
I watch Dragon Ball Z. Shouldn't it be pronounced "Kai"?
Government picking winners and losers, on top of discredited rationing programs. You guys built that; fester in it.
(insert popcorn animated gif here, if bbs is of an advanced design)
STFU! They knew what they were doing! In the simulation it floated in a tank of molten lead.
In other words, what should happen: "Too big to fail" is BS, and they should go out of business.
What actually happens: Government and business team up to fleece everybody.
So: "I call your bluff. If they are too big to fail, break them up." and let's see what the businessmen think about that, and the government officials they donate to. Let's play the rhetoric game on their terms for a change.
"Too big to fail" is a government determination driven by politics and the powerful. Bank shareholders don't wanna lose money, and government officials wanna look like they're doing something. So they form this unholy, age-old partnership to carve up everyone elses' money to their mutual benefit.
Far from changing behavior, it's encouraging risky behavior that will some day require another guaranteed bailout (in spite of government protestations they will never do it again, not no way, not no how).
Because of this cynical behavior, you now have economic conservatives like George Will calling for the unthinkable: government intervention to break up "too big to fail" entities.
He's never directly said so, but I suspect it's less some newfound limited respect for government regulation rather than a cynical stab at that unholy alliance of government and unethical businessmen using government, with full knowledge and encouragement by said officials.
That poster's peer review sucked.
I think you mean nukyueolus.
They mention a tiny screen, I think that's what received the electrons. The image drawn could be as big as they want.