Reminds me of Gameboy's IR connection, where, in theory, two Gameboys could compete against each other in the same game. Gameboy recommended they be only a few inches apart, pointed directly at each other, and played flat against a table. I.e. not the way the game was designed to be played, and essentially unplayable that way.
Nah, I'll take a 20% degredation in speed so I can keep the damned thing in my pocket instead of doing this idiotic "virtual" plug-in-that's-technically-wireless.
Here's your method to increase speed: Hire more people so you can have more security lines open. It's called parallelism, and is the core of the assembly line's speed.
Oh, wait. You probably mean come up with other tricks so you don't have to hire more people. n/m
This monitor is useless for "true, hardcore gamers". Why? In recent years, game makers have decided that wide screen will be a subset of a "normal" screen, not the other way around. In other words, you see the same width, but with the top and bottom (that you'd see on a normal screen) chopped off, then magnified to stretch it proportionally to the wide screen width.
I forget which game announced that last year, but I wanted to slap someone.
Try it. Some games have "wide screen" settings. Switch it on and off. You see no more width with the widescreen setting, and lose some on the top and bottom. Eve Online is one such monstrosity.
> What are the scriptures? Extracts from the notes of successful experimenters would > be one way to describe them, if it works for you.
I.e. a few useful rules of life, determined completely independently of any and all gods, written down and wrapped with a bunch of stories of ancient tribal violence?
If a bunch of life rules-of-thumb existed independently, then what's the point? Preserve them, scrap the religion, and get on with a decent life.
He was also calm and cool enough to grab his sword as he fell and start whackin' the big fire demon, or blow entire smoke diaramas. After 22,000 years with a near-Einstein level IQ (and god knows what built-in abilities) I'd hope he'd have picked up a trick or two.
One of the first rules to go was the limitation on max level for non-human characters.
Sorry, my Dwarf fighter ain't stopping at level 9.
Still, I'd suggest on the face of it that any wizard with a sword shows a busted game design. "Tank mage" and all that. And don't mention Gandalf since he's a 22,000 year old demigod.
Sure, people will do it, but leaving it out won't keep people away. I can think of eight million things I'd rather see first like, oh, I don't know, a better game design that doesn't rely on the tank/healer/glass cannon trio.
This all centers around the base idiocy of the "taunt" ability. Ban that from day 1, and force yourselves to come up with a better solution.
Pardon me if I'm wrong, but fighters are meatbags in these games. The higher level they get, the wimpier they get relative to the monsters.
Hence in a sense, yes, they do get more fumble-fingered. "I walk up to the necro wearing cloth armor and doing such delicate finger movements that he cannot even wear leather and swing my massive sword."
DM: He dodges easily, while continuing the finger motions that are so delicate he cannot even wear leather.
> an eyeglass-like head-mounted display with 800 x 600 resolution. Dreamax's Indicube > i-800 PMP provides an experience similar to sitting two meters away from a 54-inch screen
I think he meant to say provides an experience similar to sitting two decades away from a "super" VGA screen.
> What are the odds that every living organism that is currently still here survived the > thousands of required generations of revisions to be where they are today?
Evolution isn't just about who lives and reproduces, and who dies and does not. That really just culls the severe abominations and the unlucky. A much larger chunk is just reproducing a little bit less than the "more fit" organisms, and thus the more-fit gene spreds to more individuals with each passing generation. Soon, everybody shares it.
And, by the way, many species did not survive, having died off with no evolutionary descendents. One small chunk of dinosaurs turned into birds, near as we can tell, and the vast majority of them just died out.
Apparently you missed the part about this entire universe being a simulation. In which case, Jesus, Yahweh, Allah, Vishnu, Thor, Zeus, et al., are all hot air, though I'm sure if this were a simulation with no religion "out there", that there'd be no shortage of people who'd try to bring their religions out to that "real world" under the argument God infiltrated the virtual reality and let's just put a bullet in our heads right now.
Personally, if I were the programmers, I wouldn't let such people out unless they signed an agreement they wouldn't try to aid their relgion in memetically escaping the VR.
Apparently God-tot also likes World of Rape Children To Deathcraft and World of Live The Last Sixty Years Of Your Life As A Conscious Vegetable Trapped Inside Your Brain With No Sensory Input And No Motor Control Experiencing Horrific Pain And Unending Nightmarescraft.
Well, there's two problems with your post. First of all, it's transparently obvious he wasn't attempting to be a linebacker tackling some mom, but rather was merely pointing out that, as is reasonable, she was probably buying it for some kid, and that the M meant it probably was not a good choice, as far as quality parenting skills go. The mom could buy it for herself, for her kid, or go get a Winnie the Pooh game instead. Second, "it's still [just] a video game" is like saying, "It's still just a movie", even though it's Scarface. Yes, that's what parenting skills are about: checking out what your kids are doing and making adjustments to it as necessary. These ratings are supposed to help, but it's clear nobody's "tested" them with respect to actual game-illiterate parents. A good portion of parents with "quality parenting skills", who are thus checking out and relying on these ratings, might have a problem finding out more about "Call to Duty" or some un-numbered "Conan" game.
She's pointing this stuff out, that many of the intended users of this list, video game-illiterate parents, won't know enough to correct the errors and ommissions. Think if someone published a Christmas gift list of "quality knitting needles", and you went to get the #3 needle for your gramma, but the style name was off, and didn't include a model number. Should you "know better, you poor-knitting-skilled buffoon"? Or should the writers of the list have analyzed their target audience better?
I assure you, the audience for this list is neither teenagers, nor young men in their 20s or 30s.
Raisin Bran has among the most sugar of any cereal, thanks to the raisins. And then many people lay on a spoonful or two of sugar on top of that, to boot. You'd be better off with Frosted Flakes, AKA Sugar Frosted Flakes.
As for "fatter and dumber", fatter certainly, and lazier, but dumber?
I highly doubt there are valid, multiply-reproduced, peer-reviewed studies showing any such stuff actually "works".
More likely than not, it's to give legal cover to picking out Middle Eastern people without looking like you're doing it, and is intended to provide such cover for a few years until the next thing comes along.
Whoa! 2 sentences to shoot down the government. I feel like Neo against Agent Smith at the very end of the first (and only) Matrix.
Slashdot Mirror
> vs. TransfeJet's 3 centimeters
Reminds me of Gameboy's IR connection, where, in theory, two Gameboys could compete against each other in the same game. Gameboy recommended they be only a few inches apart, pointed directly at each other, and played flat against a table. I.e. not the way the game was designed to be played, and essentially unplayable that way.
Nah, I'll take a 20% degredation in speed so I can keep the damned thing in my pocket instead of doing this idiotic "virtual" plug-in-that's-technically-wireless.
> "Within nine years the National Helium Reserve will be depleted," according to an article in Science Daily.
A prediction by this guy: Barring government intervention, we will not have such a shortage.
Of course, 9 years from now, when this occurs, there won't be any headline retractions about it. Such is the way of life.
Why not vote for politicians who help build new energy plants instead?
Saving a few percent only offsets the need for growth by six months or so. I.e. it's pointless in the long run.
Make more efficient plants, or different sources of energy, perhaps. But stop with this idiocy of living a pseudo-Spartan life.
But politics and power were never about logic anyway. It's about scaring people so they'll vote for you so you can wield power.
> By the same logic, fat men and televisions in close proximity are CREATING couches.
They do, in a sense. TV + natural desire to sit around instead of moving = de facto commissioning of couches from couch manufacturers.
Here's your method to increase speed: Hire more people so you can have more security lines open. It's called parallelism, and is the core of the assembly line's speed.
Oh, wait. You probably mean come up with other tricks so you don't have to hire more people. n/m
This monitor is useless for "true, hardcore gamers". Why? In recent years, game makers have decided that wide screen will be a subset of a "normal" screen, not the other way around. In other words, you see the same width, but with the top and bottom (that you'd see on a normal screen) chopped off, then magnified to stretch it proportionally to the wide screen width.
I forget which game announced that last year, but I wanted to slap someone.
Try it. Some games have "wide screen" settings. Switch it on and off. You see no more width with the widescreen setting, and lose some on the top and bottom. Eve Online is one such monstrosity.
> What are the scriptures? Extracts from the notes of successful experimenters would
> be one way to describe them, if it works for you.
I.e. a few useful rules of life, determined completely independently of any and all gods, written down and wrapped with a bunch of stories of ancient tribal violence?
If a bunch of life rules-of-thumb existed independently, then what's the point? Preserve them, scrap the religion, and get on with a decent life.
For extremely loose values of "adequately".
I believe the Dragon Disciple was the first character in the D&D game who deserved a severe beating. At least according to the 3.5 edition drawing.
"Max damage and bonus" is nice, too. (crit!) "Here's a knife in your eye (rolls damage die, a 1)" "Wow! I did 2 points damage on that crit!"
:(
EQ inhaled this BS whole hog.
Gandalf was a 22,000 year old demigod.
He was also calm and cool enough to grab his sword as he fell and start whackin' the big fire demon, or blow entire smoke diaramas. After 22,000 years with a near-Einstein level IQ (and god knows what built-in abilities) I'd hope he'd have picked up a trick or two.
One of the first rules to go was the limitation on max level for non-human characters.
Sorry, my Dwarf fighter ain't stopping at level 9.
Still, I'd suggest on the face of it that any wizard with a sword shows a busted game design. "Tank mage" and all that. And don't mention Gandalf since he's a 22,000 year old demigod.
Sure, people will do it, but leaving it out won't keep people away. I can think of eight million things I'd rather see first like, oh, I don't know, a better game design that doesn't rely on the tank/healer/glass cannon trio.
This all centers around the base idiocy of the "taunt" ability. Ban that from day 1, and force yourselves to come up with a better solution.
> I'm haven't been a regular D&D player for a few decades but I am involved
> in a RPG community [gelatinousdudes.com]
What a wonderfully appropriate domain name!
Pardon me if I'm wrong, but fighters are meatbags in these games. The higher level they get, the wimpier they get relative to the monsters.
Hence in a sense, yes, they do get more fumble-fingered. "I walk up to the necro wearing cloth armor and doing such delicate finger movements that he cannot even wear leather and swing my massive sword."
DM: He dodges easily, while continuing the finger motions that are so delicate he cannot even wear leather.
Whatever.
DM: You roll your 20-sided die.
You: (rolls) A 20!
DM: Ok, roll for crit.
You: (rolls) Another 20!
DM: A super-4x crit! Sadly, it's still not enough to overcome your 3 charisma and Francine turns you down yet again.
You: (mumble)
DM: No, you don't get to "tumble". She turned you down.
> an eyeglass-like head-mounted display with 800 x 600 resolution. Dreamax's Indicube
> i-800 PMP provides an experience similar to sitting two meters away from a 54-inch screen
I think he meant to say provides an experience similar to sitting two decades away from a "super" VGA screen.
> What are the odds that every living organism that is currently still here survived the
> thousands of required generations of revisions to be where they are today?
Evolution isn't just about who lives and reproduces, and who dies and does not. That really just culls the severe abominations and the unlucky. A much larger chunk is just reproducing a little bit less than the "more fit" organisms, and thus the more-fit gene spreds to more individuals with each passing generation. Soon, everybody shares it.
And, by the way, many species did not survive, having died off with no evolutionary descendents. One small chunk of dinosaurs turned into birds, near as we can tell, and the vast majority of them just died out.
Apparently you missed the part about this entire universe being a simulation. In which case, Jesus, Yahweh, Allah, Vishnu, Thor, Zeus, et al., are all hot air, though I'm sure if this were a simulation with no religion "out there", that there'd be no shortage of people who'd try to bring their religions out to that "real world" under the argument God infiltrated the virtual reality and let's just put a bullet in our heads right now.
Personally, if I were the programmers, I wouldn't let such people out unless they signed an agreement they wouldn't try to aid their relgion in memetically escaping the VR.
Apparently God-tot also likes World of Rape Children To Deathcraft and World of Live The Last Sixty Years Of Your Life As A Conscious Vegetable Trapped Inside Your Brain With No Sensory Input And No Motor Control Experiencing Horrific Pain And Unending Nightmarescraft.
Which also applies if Yahweh is in charge.
Hmmmm. A patent to detect increased agitation, heart beat, breathing at a computer, then pair you up with someone doing something similar.
Uhhh, yeah, so you can help each other "solve your problem". Yeah, that's the ticket!
Well, there's two problems with your post. First of all, it's transparently obvious he wasn't attempting to be a linebacker tackling some mom, but rather was merely pointing out that, as is reasonable, she was probably buying it for some kid, and that the M meant it probably was not a good choice, as far as quality parenting skills go. The mom could buy it for herself, for her kid, or go get a Winnie the Pooh game instead. Second, "it's still [just] a video game" is like saying, "It's still just a movie", even though it's Scarface. Yes, that's what parenting skills are about: checking out what your kids are doing and making adjustments to it as necessary. These ratings are supposed to help, but it's clear nobody's "tested" them with respect to actual game-illiterate parents. A good portion of parents with "quality parenting skills", who are thus checking out and relying on these ratings, might have a problem finding out more about "Call to Duty" or some un-numbered "Conan" game.
She's pointing this stuff out, that many of the intended users of this list, video game-illiterate parents, won't know enough to correct the errors and ommissions. Think if someone published a Christmas gift list of "quality knitting needles", and you went to get the #3 needle for your gramma, but the style name was off, and didn't include a model number. Should you "know better, you poor-knitting-skilled buffoon"? Or should the writers of the list have analyzed their target audience better?
I assure you, the audience for this list is neither teenagers, nor young men in their 20s or 30s.
Raisin Bran has among the most sugar of any cereal, thanks to the raisins. And then many people lay on a spoonful or two of sugar on top of that, to boot. You'd be better off with Frosted Flakes, AKA Sugar Frosted Flakes.
As for "fatter and dumber", fatter certainly, and lazier, but dumber?
> Molten Salt-Based Solar Power Plant
Sounds like something retarded from a late '90s RTS.
> "On Thursday, SETI Institute and NASA scientists
...and the odds of successfully navagating a meteor shower are 3,628 to 1!
and
> the Quadrantid meteor shower could flash over 100 visible meteors per hour
SETI Guy: Wait, I'm getting something!
NASA Guy: What?
SETI Guy: Here, lemme adjust...
Audio Speaker: (gkkkzt!)
I highly doubt there are valid, multiply-reproduced, peer-reviewed studies showing any such stuff actually "works".
More likely than not, it's to give legal cover to picking out Middle Eastern people without looking like you're doing it, and is intended to provide such cover for a few years until the next thing comes along.
Whoa! 2 sentences to shoot down the government. I feel like Neo against Agent Smith at the very end of the first (and only) Matrix.