I bought Temple of Elemental Evil for $10.00 there.
I wonder if they caused "pickpocketting" to be renamed "sleight of handing". The conversion of Thief to Rogue, however, probably preceeded their influence.
They have less quality and you dont need less but more herbizides and insectizides. Furthermore they are designed to not being fertile anymore so that you cannot gain seeds from your harvest. If I would get knowledge of a field with genetically seeds I would burn it down. That should be done with every single plant of genetically altered Plants!!
You forgot, "It's true!:)"
In any case, yes, farmers prefer to grow this stuff because it requires more costly insecticides and yields an inferior product. That's the way to stay in business!:rollseyes:
Lucent is trying to sell itself at the moment. This makes their stock look attractive.
No, the cat does not "got my tongue."
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"Scientists have found evidence in Pakistan that the Stone Age had dentists. They used flint drills to remove cavities and attempt other tooth repair. No evidence as to whether or not the patients were conscious during the procedures."
Quotes one local politician in Maaaaassassachussettes, "I'm angry about this. Were there no politicians back then to regulate them? To give them permission?!?!? Heck, I'll bet there wasn't even a politician there to force that dentist to only charge three melons for the procedure rather than four."
I've been carrying my wallet in my front pocket for ten years now. A bad case of almost-pickpocketting on a bus in Rome (Scenario: cute girl shoved against me by 8 guys from Africa and one pseudo-midget Turk, I put my thumb on my wallet and felt a 30 pound upward force tugging on it.)
The only downside, it is easy for the wallet to grow gigantic since it does not cause pain when it bulges with ATM and debit card receipts.
Slashdot doesn't go back far enough to have an ancient article discussing how tiny TVs (think video-Walkmen) of the late 80's were massive flops.
So this person never got the message: "Hmmmmm...I know! Let's add a tinly lil' DVD player to it!"
Guess what, foos! Nobody wants to watch the flakin' TV screen that's that damned tiny.
Now, when someone builds a TI DSP chip and projector that can fit in a wristwatch, and project on a wall brightly, then I'll be happy to listen. Until then, hit the road chumps.
Shhhhh! There's socialist power to be gained over evil captialism -- power that could not be gained via standard social warfare bleating. This generates hatred in socialists, hence they absorbe any reasoning that supports their goal, massive control of the economy.
Environmentalism recommends massive control over the economy.
Ergo socialists support environmentalism.
You aren't gonna let pesky facts like leaving an ice age, solar variation, etc. get in the way, are you?
And, nothing will happen w.r.t. rising sea levels. 50 years from now people will claim that, see, it did the trick! Waving your arms did keep the pink elephants away after all!
Meanwhile, humanity will be significantly behind where it otherwise would be, technologically. People will live more miserable, shorter lives of greater want, and they'll never know otherwise, unlike today where the advanced nations have left non-capitalist societies in the dust.
A proposal for the far future: Gather some volunteers, a few tens of billions should do. Erase their minds and put them on identical worlds. Force some to live in heavy handed socialism, others in unfettered capitalism, still more in in-between-ness. Let them live for, say, 500 years starting at mid 1600's technology.
See which one:
A. Develops tech fastest B. Has the fewest needless deaths C. Has the most comfortable average lives
Any takers, people of the far future? Anyone wanna bet on which world has the fewest deaths thanks to the most rapidly advancing technology?
Ahh, who cares. There's power to be seized over freedom, i.e. capitalism. Power! POWER!
> All that exists is in the mind of God. To be in the > mind of God is to exist. God is omniscient, therefore > everything that's in a human mind is in the mind of God. > Therefore Narnia, Barsoom, and Middle-Earth exist, and > George Lucas committed genocide when he blew up Alderaan.
If that's true then holy god there are a bunch of Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, Rose McGowan, and Alicia Witt clones floating around Yahweh-space with extremely sore pussies.
Geordi had better eyesight than humans. Data had a soul towards the end of the series; it was a tiny chip they found and started using full-time in the movies.
What? You think your soul just floats there with no spiritual mechanical-physics behind it?
The reward for playing some games well is that, by playing well, you are more powered up than the average player, perhaps a level or two ahead, and so on. This makes you actually have a slightly easier time of it on encounters. And that's the point for a good player. You spend the time to make your character better.
If the game just auto-levels the monsters so they're always the same level of toughness, what's the point? It may be a problem because of the extremely open-ended nature of a game like this, where they can't control where you go. Although having harder monsters in an area does sort of limit where you can go. If you can't kill them, you can't go there. But auto-levelling works against that by bringing what should be final act monsters way downward because someone decided to go there first.
> The entire ghostgate region will fall on its face > against someone with 100 long blade and 100 strength, > and since you have to get a skill to 90 to complete the "Become a Hortator"
"Roger, check the expiration date on that milk carton."
Bauldur's Gate II, take Minnowin or whatever her name is, buy a master thief potion, thieve more potions and other expensive stuff, and sell them back, then re-thieve them over and over again. Plus pickpocket a non-Gaxx old-style ring of regeneration from a high level NPC.
All within legitimate game rules. Exploit? Perhaps. Cheat? Technically, no.
BGII: Pickpocket the lich before he turns into a lich. Loot the Ring of Gaxx (super-regeneration.) Now kill lich after he turns into lich. Hey! He drops another Ring of Gaxx. Exploit? Perhaps. Cheat? Technically, no. The game makers put the ring into his pocket when he was just a normal mortal -- for all you know, he's just a really lucky guy with 2 Rings of Gaxx. Which are now your two rings of Gaxx.
Yes, it's doing it the hard way instead of using a cheat to issue yourself things, but that makes the accomplishment all that much better.
Left hand: Ring of Gaxx. Right hand: Ring of Gaxx, vorpal sword. Back: Awesome magic-reflecting cloak (boinnnng!), feet: boots of haste. Ahh, how sweet life was.
Among other discoveries:
- Tassadar didn't have to sacrifice himself at the end of Starcraft. I had things well under control, thanks.
- It is possible to play Icewind Dale II on Heart of Fury with level 1 characters (2) from scratch, no imported money or items either. Oh holy god it's a pain, but it can be done. Without cheating.
What? You didn't think the bards wrote songs about your l4m3r adventures, did you?
I have yet to meet the game I've gotten stuffed on*, so I refuse to cheat as I have no need to.**
I did technically "cheat" when I re-played KoToR II when I issued my girl the dancer's outfit as soon as she woke up on the floor, but that's not really a cheat because it only does +2 cha, which wasn't why I got it anyway.
* I couldn't make much headway in Kingpin on the hardest setting, "realistic", or whatever. Gosh, getting hit by one bullet, or swatted in the head with a pipe takes you out immediately? Who'd'a thunk!
** In Warcraft III on the very hardest, some of the levels are a complete bear, especially the one in the first act where you must survive for 30 minutes, especially if you complete the optional mission of saving the village way at the top and grabbing the wonder item up there. Technically I couldn't save the village, but I fought the bad guys off long enough for the optional quest to tick completed, grab the item, and haul ass back south to the main village. By the time the stupid mountain dwarf came back, the village was so overrun he'd have been instantly slaughtered. But the main mission ticked complete, too. Three quarters of the way through the vampire act I finally gave up. I was still making progress but couldn't take the hobbling the "hard mode" did to you -- your tall towers with cannons or whatever couldn't shoot as far as mobiles on the ground. Not exactly the brightest way to make a game "hard". Go play Sacrifice if you want a vastly superior, properly done "squad-based RTS".
> This is the govt admitting that ideas are the most dangerous > things in the world. THis guy is (supposedly) disseminating > knowledge and ideas. We can't have that.
It's legal for me to point to the house on the corner and say, "There's crack for sale in there for $10 a bag." It's not legal for me to do so if I am part of the organization selling the crack. A sales pitch, though speech, is also a crime.
Instructing people how to make bombs is not illegal. Instructing them to do so knowing they will be using those bombs illegally is. Distributing beheading videos is not illegal. Helping those who created the videos distribute them for the purpose those people want them distributed is. You are part of the crime.
By the way, if one were planning a conspiracy to get the US to go to war, wouldn't having one plane's passengers rescue themselves provide a fantastically heartwarming story for the nation to get behind?
Or why deny shooting it down? After all, that was only the sixth most important story of that day and one that would show the government had gotten its act together faster, rather than slower.
> We know for a fact that the crime scenes of both the WTC and Pentagon > were scrubbed almost completely making any sort of forensic analysis > of the physical evidence impossible.
What forensic evidence? Planes hit buildings as seen by thousands (first) and billions (second), there are photos of the Pentagon plane approaching.
I'm confused as to what you need evidence for. Unless it's one of those nutjobs who think someone planned to crash planes, immediately ran up to those floors and planted bombs, then quickly ran downstairs to escape, then blew up the buildings, why, just in case the planes weren't enough for the job.
Meanwhile, five comments above had an explanation of someone else's obvious joke modified as funny. Again, that's all you need to know about humanity. It's the same reason doggie treats are made to look and smell like bacon to humans.
That a needless explanation of a mildly funny joke, and a brutally obvious one at that, itself gets modified as funny by other people who didn't get the original joke, tells you all you need to know about humanity.
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I bought Temple of Elemental Evil for $10.00 there.
I wonder if they caused "pickpocketting" to be renamed "sleight of handing". The conversion of Thief to Rogue, however, probably preceeded their influence.
You forgot, "It's true!
In any case, yes, farmers prefer to grow this stuff because it requires more costly insecticides and yields an inferior product. That's the way to stay in business!
Lucent is trying to sell itself at the moment. This makes their stock look attractive.
Quotes one local politician in Maaaaassassachussettes, "I'm angry about this. Were there no politicians back then to regulate them? To give them permission?!?!? Heck, I'll bet there wasn't even a politician there to force that dentist to only charge three melons for the procedure rather than four."
I've been carrying my wallet in my front pocket for ten years now. A bad case of almost-pickpocketting on a bus in Rome (Scenario: cute girl shoved against me by 8 guys from Africa and one pseudo-midget Turk, I put my thumb on my wallet and felt a 30 pound upward force tugging on it.)
The only downside, it is easy for the wallet to grow gigantic since it does not cause pain when it bulges with ATM and debit card receipts.
> Direct Revenue settled a class action law suit last month in Illinois
Don't let them settle a lawsuit! Make the assholes release software to de-install itself, safely and completely.
Son of a bitch, I had to re-stage my wife's laptop because of Winfixer.
Slashdot doesn't go back far enough to have an ancient article discussing how tiny TVs (think video-Walkmen) of the late 80's were massive flops.
So this person never got the message: "Hmmmmm...I know! Let's add a tinly lil' DVD player to it!"
Guess what, foos! Nobody wants to watch the flakin' TV screen that's that damned tiny.
Now, when someone builds a TI DSP chip and projector that can fit in a wristwatch, and project on a wall brightly, then I'll be happy to listen. Until then, hit the road chumps.
Shhhhh! There's socialist power to be gained over evil captialism -- power that could not be gained via standard social warfare bleating. This generates hatred in socialists, hence they absorbe any reasoning that supports their goal, massive control of the economy.
Environmentalism recommends massive control over the economy.
Ergo socialists support environmentalism.
You aren't gonna let pesky facts like leaving an ice age, solar variation, etc. get in the way, are you?
And, nothing will happen w.r.t. rising sea levels. 50 years from now people will claim that, see, it did the trick! Waving your arms did keep the pink elephants away after all!
Meanwhile, humanity will be significantly behind where it otherwise would be, technologically. People will live more miserable, shorter lives of greater want, and they'll never know otherwise, unlike today where the advanced nations have left non-capitalist societies in the dust.
A proposal for the far future: Gather some volunteers, a few tens of billions should do. Erase their minds and put them on identical worlds. Force some to live in heavy handed socialism, others in unfettered capitalism, still more in in-between-ness. Let them live for, say, 500 years starting at mid 1600's technology.
See which one:
A. Develops tech fastest
B. Has the fewest needless deaths
C. Has the most comfortable average lives
Any takers, people of the far future? Anyone wanna bet on which world has the fewest deaths thanks to the most rapidly advancing technology?
Ahh, who cares. There's power to be seized over freedom, i.e. capitalism. Power! POWER!
That's true. Cauterization of the wound has been a feature of Lightsabers(TM) since before Han shot first.
> All that exists is in the mind of God. To be in the
> mind of God is to exist. God is omniscient, therefore
> everything that's in a human mind is in the mind of God.
> Therefore Narnia, Barsoom, and Middle-Earth exist, and
> George Lucas committed genocide when he blew up Alderaan.
If that's true then holy god there are a bunch of Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, Rose McGowan, and Alicia Witt clones floating around Yahweh-space with extremely sore pussies.
Geordi had better eyesight than humans. Data had a soul towards the end of the series; it was a tiny chip they found and started using full-time in the movies.
What? You think your soul just floats there with no spiritual mechanical-physics behind it?
> Leia is still not hot enough to melt steel blast doors,
> sadly. Her mother, on the other hand...
Debbie Reynolds?!?!? You sick mofo!
> It's really no fun when it says "AprilFools" on the front page!
What's April Fools about it? This is an important question for nerds!
The reward for playing some games well is that, by playing well, you are more powered up than the average player, perhaps a level or two ahead, and so on. This makes you actually have a slightly easier time of it on encounters. And that's the point for a good player. You spend the time to make your character better.
If the game just auto-levels the monsters so they're always the same level of toughness, what's the point? It may be a problem because of the extremely open-ended nature of a game like this, where they can't control where you go. Although having harder monsters in an area does sort of limit where you can go. If you can't kill them, you can't go there. But auto-levelling works against that by bringing what should be final act monsters way downward because someone decided to go there first.
> The entire ghostgate region will fall on its face
> against someone with 100 long blade and 100 strength,
> and since you have to get a skill to 90 to complete the "Become a Hortator"
"Roger, check the expiration date on that milk carton."
Bauldur's Gate II, take Minnowin or whatever her name is, buy a master thief potion, thieve more potions and other expensive stuff, and sell them back, then re-thieve them over and over again. Plus pickpocket a non-Gaxx old-style ring of regeneration from a high level NPC.
All within legitimate game rules. Exploit? Perhaps. Cheat? Technically, no.
BGII: Pickpocket the lich before he turns into a lich. Loot the Ring of Gaxx (super-regeneration.) Now kill lich after he turns into lich. Hey! He drops another Ring of Gaxx. Exploit? Perhaps. Cheat? Technically, no. The game makers put the ring into his pocket when he was just a normal mortal -- for all you know, he's just a really lucky guy with 2 Rings of Gaxx. Which are now your two rings of Gaxx.
Yes, it's doing it the hard way instead of using a cheat to issue yourself things, but that makes the accomplishment all that much better.
Left hand: Ring of Gaxx. Right hand: Ring of Gaxx, vorpal sword. Back: Awesome magic-reflecting cloak (boinnnng!), feet: boots of haste. Ahh, how sweet life was.
Among other discoveries:
- Tassadar didn't have to sacrifice himself at the end of Starcraft. I had things well under control, thanks.
- It is possible to play Icewind Dale II on Heart of Fury with level 1 characters (2) from scratch, no imported money or items either. Oh holy god it's a pain, but it can be done. Without cheating.
What? You didn't think the bards wrote songs about your l4m3r adventures, did you?
The Kobyashi Maru test cheats, too, as Scotty found out, being the only other person to beat it besides Kirk.
I have yet to meet the game I've gotten stuffed on*, so I refuse to cheat as I have no need to.**
I did technically "cheat" when I re-played KoToR II when I issued my girl the dancer's outfit as soon as she woke up on the floor, but that's not really a cheat because it only does +2 cha, which wasn't why I got it anyway.
* I couldn't make much headway in Kingpin on the hardest setting, "realistic", or whatever. Gosh, getting hit by one bullet, or swatted in the head with a pipe takes you out immediately? Who'd'a thunk!
** In Warcraft III on the very hardest, some of the levels are a complete bear, especially the one in the first act where you must survive for 30 minutes, especially if you complete the optional mission of saving the village way at the top and grabbing the wonder item up there. Technically I couldn't save the village, but I fought the bad guys off long enough for the optional quest to tick completed, grab the item, and haul ass back south to the main village. By the time the stupid mountain dwarf came back, the village was so overrun he'd have been instantly slaughtered. But the main mission ticked complete, too. Three quarters of the way through the vampire act I finally gave up. I was still making progress but couldn't take the hobbling the "hard mode" did to you -- your tall towers with cannons or whatever couldn't shoot as far as mobiles on the ground. Not exactly the brightest way to make a game "hard". Go play Sacrifice if you want a vastly superior, properly done "squad-based RTS".
> This is the govt admitting that ideas are the most dangerous
> things in the world. THis guy is (supposedly) disseminating
> knowledge and ideas. We can't have that.
It's legal for me to point to the house on the corner and say, "There's crack for sale in there for $10 a bag." It's not legal for me to do so if I am part of the organization selling the crack. A sales pitch, though speech, is also a crime.
Instructing people how to make bombs is not illegal. Instructing them to do so knowing they will be using those bombs illegally is. Distributing beheading videos is not illegal. Helping those who created the videos distribute them for the purpose those people want them distributed is. You are part of the crime.
By the way, if one were planning a conspiracy to get the US to go to war, wouldn't having one plane's passengers rescue themselves provide a fantastically heartwarming story for the nation to get behind?
Or why deny shooting it down? After all, that was only the sixth most important story of that day and one that would show the government had gotten its act together faster, rather than slower.
Let's pick one goofy statement purely at random.
...shot down, Flight 93, was the only one in which
> 20. The only plane that was evidently
Oopsie! Already you're deviating severely from reality...
>
> it appeared that passengers were going to gain control.
Yes, they did almost, and the terrorists deliberately crashed the plane, as the black box and flight recorder amply suggest.
But that will not be enough to convince you, so I'm sure you'll suggest the recorder info was made up. Drat!
> We know for a fact that the crime scenes of both the WTC and Pentagon
> were scrubbed almost completely making any sort of forensic analysis
> of the physical evidence impossible.
What forensic evidence? Planes hit buildings as seen by thousands (first) and billions (second), there are photos of the Pentagon plane approaching.
I'm confused as to what you need evidence for. Unless it's one of those nutjobs who think someone planned to crash planes, immediately ran up to those floors and planted bombs, then quickly ran downstairs to escape, then blew up the buildings, why, just in case the planes weren't enough for the job.
Meanwhile, five comments above had an explanation of someone else's obvious joke modified as funny. Again, that's all you need to know about humanity. It's the same reason doggie treats are made to look and smell like bacon to humans.
...er, wherein it's ok to make it illegal to take things on an individual scale...
"If there was a mistake, well, the lazy Slashdot programmers should have added an edit button like other modern systems."
That a needless explanation of a mildly funny joke, and a brutally obvious one at that, itself gets modified as funny by other people who didn't get the original joke, tells you all you need to know about humanity.