You mean, the attack on Saddam's regime, following his invasion of a neighboring country and his unwillingness to ever adhere to the terms of his surrender as his forces were pushed back into his own country? That attack?
No, the mass murder of over one hundred thousand civilians who's surviving relatives now live in a country that is worse in every conceivable way than it was under Saddam: More violence, less running water, etc. You know, the lives you think are meaningless and deserving of destruction because you didn't like that one guy Saddam.
That Taliban? Ask most Afghanis if they were really pleased, or not, to have their school teachers dragged into the town square (now peacefully free of heretic activities like kite flying and music playing) and shot in the head by the guys who want to see not just the middle east, but the entire world tuned up to their medieval specs.
That hasn't stopped, the Taliban are still in control of most of Afghanistan, and ask the Afghans if they want the Taliban or the foreigners to be the ones running around in tanks, bossing people around and committing atrocities. They're not happier with new boss and his shinier uniforms, people still blow up, the goats still need tending, and being subjugated to foreign rule isn't any better than the local devil they knew.
Now, getting rid of the Taliban was a good idea, it's too bad the neocons were so obsessed with invading Iraq at any cost that they didn't actually finish the job before running off where there's more oil. But don't pretend you did the Afghans of the Iraqis a favor by blowing them up and putting your bribed puppets in power. Just don't.
exemplified by no successful terrorist acts on US soil since 9/11?
So we're the anthrax attacks no terrorist acts?
I think what the OP meant was that there have been no successful terrorist attacks committed by terrorist groups or organizations.
I think the OP was parroting a convenient lie that fits the story we're being sold.
You can try to add clauses to what he said 'till you've explained the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs if it amuses you, but you should know when you're being bullshitted.
It may as well be if you're lost in your thoughts. I've gone for hour long walks along the beach front and not even looked towards the sea. My body was on autopilot while my brain focused on other things.
*Sigh...* Seems you need more than pseudocode.
My initial claim: The gym is boring as hell. Your repartee: Going for a walk is not boring.
Because you need it in long form: No, going for a walk is not the same as doing a repetitive task in the same spot for hours on end. On a walk you have many things killing the boredom such as animals, weather, navigational hazards, etc.
Explanation of my dwindling respect for you: If I say "the gym is boring", replying "going to the beach isn't boring" is... it's fucking stupid. That's like telling me that you really enjoyed movie B when I say movie A is boring. It's not relevant, and I expect people of my species to know this without needing it explained twice.
This game at first glance appears to be a take on an early roguetype; however in truth it's less adventureish, gear-based or as rich with chance taking. It's quirky though:
You control a vulnerable white square attempting to infiltrate a semi-randomly generated abstract color field environment infested with robots. You are armed with a paint-absorbent hockey puck that can pick up color and transfer it to other objects. If you lose your puck, you have to find another; these are scattered through the environment and look like the letter P. There are no hit points; any hit kills you, and completely ends your game. You cannot shoot enemies; instead you drop direction-changing arrows called "chevrons" to guide them to their doom in one of XONG's many black holes. But your puck will also follow the arrows, so be careful where you fire; otherwise you'll lose it down a black hole.
Oh, so THAT's what's going on... I went to see their "Gameplay video with commentary, at youtube" and I had no clue as to what the hell I was looking at. This is some very, very nerdy stuff, and that's coming from a fairly nerdy guy. ASCII characters as game sprites... party like it's 1989!
The first thing wrong is their graphic: Why would I want to murder and devour these happy looking anthropomorphic plants? What kind of sick message does that send to the kids? Why not make them play a game based on the movie Alive while we're at it? It promotes team sports, mountain climbing, and cannibalism, seems perfectly in tune with their displayed values.
why is this pure expression of stupidity modded "insightful"? It doesn't have anything to say, apart from "I don't have any thoughts of my own, and I don't want any, and I don't want to listen to someone who has".
It actually says "I don't have any thoughts of my own, and I don't want any, and I don't want to listen to someone who has and I have mod points";-)
I hate this word. Is it one word? Is it two? Who knows. But it's one of the few words we have to describe the stuff that goes on while you are playing a game. We need something better, or we need some dictionary to step up and add it.
horseplay - definition of horseplay by the Free Online Dictionary... frolic, gambol, romp, caper, play - gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement; "it was all done in play"; "their frolic in the... www.thefreedictionary.com/horseplay
To answer your conundrum: Gameplay is like horseplay, but less gay.
playing a few games here and there, but as soon as I read [...] My eyes glazed over and my brain went elsewhere. [...] My gaming serves a purpose for me - take my brain elsewhere for a while.
Please, feel free to take your brain elsewhere for a while next time you feel like writing a tl;dr version of tl;dr.
When you say something that is true and the person ignores it, especially when the mods take the side of the other person, you need to look at how you said it, and figure out how the mods misunderstood what you were saying, and figure out a better way to say it.
No worries, I usually give people two chances to learn before resorting to name calling, depending on how the other behaves. But some people (go read the article) just push back blindly, and there is no point in wasting your time crafting a carefully worded message to someone without the brain meats it takes to parse it.
The saddest part of this story for us, nerds, is that our strongest weapon - our knowledge, superior understanding of facts, digging deeper into matters than cheap news stories, is in fact totally inefficient against "joe average".
Us nerds here? Can't tell you how many times I've corrected people here, providing them with links to sources demonstrating the validity of my correction, just to have them not only defend their ignorance rabidly, but have moderators take their side. People who self-identify as nerds don't have a better track record in self-delusion as Joe Sixpack, even though they want to believe that they do.
Still, I believe that stating the truth and seeing it ignored is better than letting the lie go unchallenged:(
Because you're not the first Aikido guy to talk about how much safer it is than other arts. You continually ignore that people have different reactions to being tossed at the floor, some will flail their arms wildly and hurt themselves. It's like watching newbies at a skate park falling off their boards for the first time, broken bones don't have to happen IF people are trained how to fall properly.
And most aren't. You can't sit there and say you have total mastery of another persons physical reaction when you surprise them like that and they think they're gonna land on their face. Some will lock their arms some will dislocate their shoulders, and what will your reaction be? "But I didn't hit him". Yeah good luck when they end up in a wheelchair.
I'm not saying you can't cause more harm than intended when pretzelling an aggressor, I'm saying you are mistaken in your impression that you have more control with a punch or a kick and I'm saying that you should maybe trust the learned opinion of your trained peers rather than pigheadedly insist on defending your faulty assumption. You're forgetting that people have the wrong reaction to a punch too (I've seen people dodge the wrong way) and you can kill a person with a punch to the head. You can also make them fall down with a punch or a kick, and then all the things you said about falling down apply.
But more importantly, if you follow aikido, you don't attack. So if someone gets hurt attacking you because you tripped them and they fell on their face, it's their own damn fault. You don't have to say "but I didn't punch them!", you say "they tried to punch me and fell down and hurt themselves".
And btw, I talk about trained peers but I have no formal training in aikido, just a black belt family member who taught me a few holds; I have trained in karate and judo and fencing and a bit of kung fu, and and with any of those you can hurt someone bad, but tenderly spinning someone off his center and gliding them softly to the ground is the safest way of getting rid of someone. However, if you want to really fuck someone up, learn jet kun do. THAT is violent.
I'm not into martial arts of any kind, but I gotta disagree
Why? Why you gotta talk shit about something you don't know about? Why?
Okay so some idiot comes at you and you flip him over your head... now if he's not trained on how to land he's likely to break his neck or arm.
Now on the other hand, if you throw a controlled punch or kick you can hit him just where you want and as hard or soft as you want... "just enough".
So you think it's possible to control how hard you punch or kick but not how hard you throw? I am trained in various martial arts, and lemme tell you: you're incoherent.
I'm sorry but the Aikido thing is like saying "I didn't hit you, the FLOOR did".
Yup. But don't be sorry about that, be sorry about the ignorant and illogical things you said before.
P.S. If I'm holding you and throwing you to the ground, I can pull, or push, before you hit the ground, controlling how hard you hit, I can even time a push and pull to whiplash your neck and have your head hit extra hard if I'm feeling murderous. But during training, I used to snap people off their feet and then softly put them down on the mat... many people found that very insulting (in part because they couldn't do the same to me, ah!).
Maybe they should just put warning labels on all the rocks. "Serpentine, the state rock of California, contains substances known to the state of California to cause cancer".
"Serpentine, the state rock of California, may contain substances known to the state of California to cause cancer".
Back when I was a county investigator I pulled peoples records on a regular basis. The records showed all arrests and the results of the arrests. After you turn 18 nothing is removed. IANAL, this is just based on my observations of the reports I pulled.
The records showed ALL arrests or all arrests that were not expunged/sealed?
It does not stop the employers from looking up your name in Google. They will find out how big of a trouble maker you can be and reject your application.
You'll have to look for jobs where troublemakers are welcomed, all I had to contribute what that you CAN get a false arrest erased from your record.
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the stupid attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan
You mean, the attack on Saddam's regime, following his invasion of a neighboring country and his unwillingness to ever adhere to the terms of his surrender as his forces were pushed back into his own country? That attack?
No, the mass murder of over one hundred thousand civilians who's surviving relatives now live in a country that is worse in every conceivable way than it was under Saddam: More violence, less running water, etc. You know, the lives you think are meaningless and deserving of destruction because you didn't like that one guy Saddam.
That Taliban? Ask most Afghanis if they were really pleased, or not, to have their school teachers dragged into the town square (now peacefully free of heretic activities like kite flying and music playing) and shot in the head by the guys who want to see not just the middle east, but the entire world tuned up to their medieval specs.
That hasn't stopped, the Taliban are still in control of most of Afghanistan, and ask the Afghans if they want the Taliban or the foreigners to be the ones running around in tanks, bossing people around and committing atrocities. They're not happier with new boss and his shinier uniforms, people still blow up, the goats still need tending, and being subjugated to foreign rule isn't any better than the local devil they knew.
Now, getting rid of the Taliban was a good idea, it's too bad the neocons were so obsessed with invading Iraq at any cost that they didn't actually finish the job before running off where there's more oil. But don't pretend you did the Afghans of the Iraqis a favor by blowing them up and putting your bribed puppets in power. Just don't.
exemplified by no successful terrorist acts on US soil since 9/11?
So we're the anthrax attacks no terrorist acts?
I think what the OP meant was that there have been no successful terrorist attacks committed by terrorist groups or organizations.
I think the OP was parroting a convenient lie that fits the story we're being sold.
You can try to add clauses to what he said 'till you've explained the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs if it amuses you, but you should know when you're being bullshitted.
It may as well be if you're lost in your thoughts. I've gone for hour long walks along the beach front and not even looked towards the sea. My body was on autopilot while my brain focused on other things.
*Sigh...* Seems you need more than pseudocode.
My initial claim: The gym is boring as hell.
Your repartee: Going for a walk is not boring.
Because you need it in long form: No, going for a walk is not the same as doing a repetitive task in the same spot for hours on end. On a walk you have many things killing the boredom such as animals, weather, navigational hazards, etc.
Explanation of my dwindling respect for you: If I say "the gym is boring", replying "going to the beach isn't boring" is... it's fucking stupid. That's like telling me that you really enjoyed movie B when I say movie A is boring. It's not relevant, and I expect people of my species to know this without needing it explained twice.
Another idea seemingly ripped straight from Star Trek
It's "derms" from Neuromancer, you philistine.
Derm
An adhesive patch applied to the skin in order to transmit a drug transdermally.
If this is advertising or genuine news?
Whoa. That's like, a zen koan.
Maybe what you must realize is: There is no news.
This game at first glance appears to be a take on an early roguetype; however in truth it's less adventureish, gear-based or as rich with chance taking. It's quirky though:
You control a vulnerable white square attempting to infiltrate a semi-randomly generated abstract color field environment infested with robots. You are armed with a paint-absorbent hockey puck that can pick up color and transfer it to other objects. If you lose your puck, you have to find another; these are scattered through the environment and look like the letter P. There are no hit points; any hit kills you, and completely ends your game. You cannot shoot enemies; instead you drop direction-changing arrows called "chevrons" to guide them to their doom in one of XONG's many black holes. But your puck will also follow the arrows, so be careful where you fire; otherwise you'll lose it down a black hole.
Oh, so THAT's what's going on... I went to see their "Gameplay video with commentary, at youtube" and I had no clue as to what the hell I was looking at. This is some very, very nerdy stuff, and that's coming from a fairly nerdy guy. ASCII characters as game sprites... party like it's 1989!
If what you are doing really is monotonous then you have plenty of time to think because you can just leave your body on autopilot.
I found going for walks rather tedious the first couple of weeks
Going for a walk != walking on a treadmill;
The first thing wrong is their graphic: Why would I want to murder and devour these happy looking anthropomorphic plants? What kind of sick message does that send to the kids? Why not make them play a game based on the movie Alive while we're at it? It promotes team sports, mountain climbing, and cannibalism, seems perfectly in tune with their displayed values.
I don't think there's anything wrong with gyms
I think there's the terrible boredom and monotony, but I OH! Shiny!
why is this pure expression of stupidity modded "insightful"? It doesn't have anything to say, apart from "I don't have any thoughts of my own, and I don't want any, and I don't want to listen to someone who has".
It actually says "I don't have any thoughts of my own, and I don't want any, and I don't want to listen to someone who has and I have mod points" ;-)
I hate this word. Is it one word? Is it two? Who knows. But it's one of the few words we have to describe the stuff that goes on while you are playing a game. We need something better, or we need some dictionary to step up and add it.
horseplay - definition of horseplay by the Free Online Dictionary ... ...
frolic, gambol, romp, caper, play - gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement; "it was all done in play"; "their frolic in the
www.thefreedictionary.com/horseplay
To answer your conundrum: Gameplay is like horseplay, but less gay.
playing a few games here and there, but as soon as I read [...] My eyes glazed over and my brain went elsewhere. [...] My gaming serves a purpose for me - take my brain elsewhere for a while.
Please, feel free to take your brain elsewhere for a while next time you feel like writing a tl;dr version of tl;dr.
it is able to support a person in standing position. Very cool, but the thing is far too slow.
Baby steps...
It's a shame that they couldn't make a profit on the device, I think it really had the chance to change a lot of people's lives for the better.
"Profit" and "changing people's lives for the better" are often incompatible goals.
I'm curious, does anyone know how he manages to race motorbikes?
retractable 'training wheels' and thumb-controls for the usually foot-operated functions of gear shifting and rear braking.
Alcohol prohibition is more like drug prohibition
Alcohol prohibition is an instance of drug prohibition.
That, right up there? Not a troll.
When you say something that is true and the person ignores it, especially when the mods take the side of the other person, you need to look at how you said it, and figure out how the mods misunderstood what you were saying, and figure out a better way to say it.
No worries, I usually give people two chances to learn before resorting to name calling, depending on how the other behaves. But some people (go read the article) just push back blindly, and there is no point in wasting your time crafting a carefully worded message to someone without the brain meats it takes to parse it.
The saddest part of this story for us, nerds, is that our strongest weapon - our knowledge, superior understanding of facts, digging deeper into matters than cheap news stories, is in fact totally inefficient against "joe average".
Us nerds here? Can't tell you how many times I've corrected people here, providing them with links to sources demonstrating the validity of my correction, just to have them not only defend their ignorance rabidly, but have moderators take their side. People who self-identify as nerds don't have a better track record in self-delusion as Joe Sixpack, even though they want to believe that they do.
Still, I believe that stating the truth and seeing it ignored is better than letting the lie go unchallenged :(
Because you're not the first Aikido guy to talk about how much safer it is than other arts. You continually ignore that people have different reactions to being tossed at the floor, some will flail their arms wildly and hurt themselves. It's like watching newbies at a skate park falling off their boards for the first time, broken bones don't have to happen IF people are trained how to fall properly.
And most aren't. You can't sit there and say you have total mastery of another persons physical reaction when you surprise them like that and they think they're gonna land on their face. Some will lock their arms some will dislocate their shoulders, and what will your reaction be? "But I didn't hit him". Yeah good luck when they end up in a wheelchair.
I'm not saying you can't cause more harm than intended when pretzelling an aggressor, I'm saying you are mistaken in your impression that you have more control with a punch or a kick and I'm saying that you should maybe trust the learned opinion of your trained peers rather than pigheadedly insist on defending your faulty assumption. You're forgetting that people have the wrong reaction to a punch too (I've seen people dodge the wrong way) and you can kill a person with a punch to the head. You can also make them fall down with a punch or a kick, and then all the things you said about falling down apply.
But more importantly, if you follow aikido, you don't attack. So if someone gets hurt attacking you because you tripped them and they fell on their face, it's their own damn fault. You don't have to say "but I didn't punch them!", you say "they tried to punch me and fell down and hurt themselves".
And btw, I talk about trained peers but I have no formal training in aikido, just a black belt family member who taught me a few holds; I have trained in karate and judo and fencing and a bit of kung fu, and and with any of those you can hurt someone bad, but tenderly spinning someone off his center and gliding them softly to the ground is the safest way of getting rid of someone. However, if you want to really fuck someone up, learn jet kun do. THAT is violent.
I'm not into martial arts of any kind, but I gotta disagree
Why? Why you gotta talk shit about something you don't know about? Why?
Okay so some idiot comes at you and you flip him over your head... now if he's not trained on how to land he's likely to break his neck or arm.
Now on the other hand, if you throw a controlled punch or kick you can hit him just where you want and as hard or soft as you want... "just enough".
So you think it's possible to control how hard you punch or kick but not how hard you throw?
I am trained in various martial arts, and lemme tell you: you're incoherent.
I'm sorry but the Aikido thing is like saying "I didn't hit you, the FLOOR did".
Yup. But don't be sorry about that, be sorry about the ignorant and illogical things you said before.
P.S. If I'm holding you and throwing you to the ground, I can pull, or push, before you hit the ground, controlling how hard you hit, I can even time a push and pull to whiplash your neck and have your head hit extra hard if I'm feeling murderous. But during training, I used to snap people off their feet and then softly put them down on the mat... many people found that very insulting (in part because they couldn't do the same to me, ah!).
Maybe they should just put warning labels on all the rocks. "Serpentine, the state rock of California, contains substances known to the state of California to cause cancer".
"Serpentine, the state rock of California, may contain substances known to the state of California to cause cancer".
Isn't ALL rock hazardous to your health if you breathe it?
Remember the safety drill: Stop, drop and roll :)
Back when I was a county investigator I pulled peoples records on a regular basis. The records showed all arrests and the results of the arrests. After you turn 18 nothing is removed. IANAL, this is just based on my observations of the reports I pulled.
The records showed ALL arrests or all arrests that were not expunged/sealed?
It does not stop the employers from looking up your name in Google. They will find out how big of a trouble maker you can be and reject your application.
You'll have to look for jobs where troublemakers are welcomed, all I had to contribute what that you CAN get a false arrest erased from your record.