Please show units in the future. Delta-T is not equal to 0.5% greeenhouse gas. You lose a quarter mark for the wrong units, a quarter mark for not showing your work, and the rest for a non-sequitor answer.
This is the most ill-thought out arguement ever. Why? Because people who want to get paid for their work will have to do a good job, or people will go "Fuck you and the horse you rode in on" and buy from someone else. You know, just like they do already?
Manufacturing jobs are among the only jobs which can really justify their existence. The fact that there are more bean counters and salesmen in this country than people who can hold up something and say "I'm responsible for this" is indicative of a larger problem -- a form of banana republic where rather than a certain product being the sole export of a nation, we exist only to export middle-managers and salesmen.
Crashing is a real and present problem with current and previous generation consoles. Don't believe me? I've got an xbox 1.0 with the original Thomspon DVD drive. I'd tell you why that's important, but if you'll excuse me, my disk may be dirty or damaged.
I disagree. One-thousand years of European war only ended because the world wars basically decimated Europe's great powers and left them without the means to fight, both materially and spiritually -- the people who might have become soldiers were so filled with nihilism that they refused to fight.
There's your axiom; Wars only truly end when everyone on both sides who is willing to fight is dead, either physically or spiritually.
There's the fundamental flaw in the American plans; there's the fundamental truth that Europe learned over a hard-fought millenium: War is utterly fruitless. Even if you believe you've won the war, it's only just another battle, because your enemies are human, just like you, and they believe they're correct, just like you, and they have something to lose, just like you.
The way you're speaking makes me wonder if you're just a troll. After all, the bible says it's better to pray quietly in a closet than to scream praises in the streets.:P
I'd go a step further: Sexual relationships are dangerous for most people.
Imagine the current situation from a third party perspective. Two people who don't know each other go to a common meeting ground. A complex and ornate ritual is performed, resulting in these two people leaving. Perhaps after this, they will experience a long, drawn out relationship where neither really knows the other, but neither really likes the other either.
All this for intercourse.
I've seen the best and brightest of my generation go off to work at McDonalds for the rest of their lives or take up some backbreaking job shovelling shit because of the unanticipated (fetal) results of such relationships.
Looking at it from this perspective, if a bit of wanking and porn saves a person from betraying their future for a piece of ass, I say bring it on.
I'm guessing that's a stereotype. Where opinions tend to diverge, women tend to have strange views about exactly what they are, and exactly how they think relative to men.
In many cases, the steretypes are quickly eliminated by viewing evidence in the physical world.
Don't taint the term "classic" with your new age political theatre. 'Classical Liberalism' and 'Classical Conservatism' are specific terms which are completely unrelated to the unreal microcosm that is American politics.
Both are illusions caused by the human perspective of temporal flow. Everything that will ever happen will happen because the relationships between them mean there is no other choice, but that's not predestination because it's not pre-established, only doomed to happen by physics.
So when did you finish the story in Space Invaders, Pac-man, or missle command?
The goals for a game are the goals for a game. Myself, I really enjoy wandering the countryside in Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, and Oblivion -- seeing what I can see, and becoming super powerful in the process. Luckily, that's part of what those games are about. The feeling of being a bit player in a world that's massive beyond comprehension is enough to get me playing the game, trying to see what I can see for hours and hours.
Some people really enjoyed the free invention mode in The Incredible Machine as well -- That doesn't mean they were playing the game wrong.
You might want to look at the Legacy of Kain series if you like story. The first was an action RPG, but the others are just adventure games.
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When I think of some of the great western RPGs -- Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights, Baldurs Gate, and even quasi-RPGs like System Shock 2 and Deus Ex, I find that I have to disagree. The story was integral to all these games, more or less as expected.
You know, sometimes I feel like advertisers have gone way too far, violating basic trusts -- violating even basic humanity. Hiring people to be pretend community members will eventually cause discussions to atrophe. I wish there was legal recourse.
However, whenever I'm feeling blue, I just reach for a cool, crisp, refreshing Pepsi One(tm). That's Pepsi One(tm) -- the cola whose mere existance breaks the fourth wall of reality, and allows one to look upon the face of their creator.
Please move along, there's nothing to see here. Go back to debating the war in Iraq and watching video news releases. You definitely don't need to know about any of this.
After all, it's only abuse of power if you're not the most powerful one. After that, it's simply manifest destiny.
Is the part where the game doesn't test to see if the card has appropriate shader capabilities before firing shader code to the video card also a feature of western RPGs?
Unfortunately, the design of the game is completely overshadowed by the bugs. Oblivion is the next in a long and proud lineage of utterly immersive, amazingly massive games that are also almost too broken to play; a lineage which includes Daggerfall and Battle Cruiser 3000AD.
Actually, if a bunch of people were successfully doing for free what I did for a living? I'd either be forced to up the ante by showing what a dedicated professional was capable of that a weekend warrior wasn't, or go into the corner and commit ritual suicide to defend my honour.
The moment I start suing weekend warriors is the moment I demand to be given a knife and sent into the corner.
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Please show units in the future. Delta-T is not equal to 0.5% greeenhouse gas. You lose a quarter mark for the wrong units, a quarter mark for not showing your work, and the rest for a non-sequitor answer.
Visual art is art, and games include plenty of that too.
Thanks a lot, Judge Limbaugh. Now go back to your cage. Nobody likes you and you're fat.
This is the most ill-thought out arguement ever. Why? Because people who want to get paid for their work will have to do a good job, or people will go "Fuck you and the horse you rode in on" and buy from someone else. You know, just like they do already?
Go crawl into a hole and die.
Manufacturing jobs are among the only jobs which can really justify their existence. The fact that there are more bean counters and salesmen in this country than people who can hold up something and say "I'm responsible for this" is indicative of a larger problem -- a form of banana republic where rather than a certain product being the sole export of a nation, we exist only to export middle-managers and salesmen.
Ok, go get elected.
What's that? You don't have hundreds of millions of dollars and an established media presence to run?
I guess democracy isn't really by *ALL* the people...
Crashing is a real and present problem with current and previous generation consoles. Don't believe me? I've got an xbox 1.0 with the original Thomspon DVD drive. I'd tell you why that's important, but if you'll excuse me, my disk may be dirty or damaged.
So you wouldn't own a PC if you weren't playing games on it?
I disagree. One-thousand years of European war only ended because the world wars basically decimated Europe's great powers and left them without the means to fight, both materially and spiritually -- the people who might have become soldiers were so filled with nihilism that they refused to fight.
There's your axiom; Wars only truly end when everyone on both sides who is willing to fight is dead, either physically or spiritually.
There's the fundamental flaw in the American plans; there's the fundamental truth that Europe learned over a hard-fought millenium: War is utterly fruitless. Even if you believe you've won the war, it's only just another battle, because your enemies are human, just like you, and they believe they're correct, just like you, and they have something to lose, just like you.
The way you're speaking makes me wonder if you're just a troll. After all, the bible says it's better to pray quietly in a closet than to scream praises in the streets. :P
The nice thing about dogmatic rules is that they need not be discussed.
I'd go a step further: Sexual relationships are dangerous for most people.
Imagine the current situation from a third party perspective. Two people who don't know each other go to a common meeting ground. A complex and ornate ritual is performed, resulting in these two people leaving. Perhaps after this, they will experience a long, drawn out relationship where neither really knows the other, but neither really likes the other either.
All this for intercourse.
I've seen the best and brightest of my generation go off to work at McDonalds for the rest of their lives or take up some backbreaking job shovelling shit because of the unanticipated (fetal) results of such relationships.
Looking at it from this perspective, if a bit of wanking and porn saves a person from betraying their future for a piece of ass, I say bring it on.
I'm guessing that's a stereotype. Where opinions tend to diverge, women tend to have strange views about exactly what they are, and exactly how they think relative to men.
In many cases, the steretypes are quickly eliminated by viewing evidence in the physical world.
Don't taint the term "classic" with your new age political theatre. 'Classical Liberalism' and 'Classical Conservatism' are specific terms which are completely unrelated to the unreal microcosm that is American politics.
If you're too cowardly to fight, then don't. Go sew and bake cookies and look after the children.
At some point, however, somebody righteous has to fight against somebody wicked, or only the wicked shall wield any power.
Both are illusions caused by the human perspective of temporal flow. Everything that will ever happen will happen because the relationships between them mean there is no other choice, but that's not predestination because it's not pre-established, only doomed to happen by physics.
So when did you finish the story in Space Invaders, Pac-man, or missle command?
The goals for a game are the goals for a game. Myself, I really enjoy wandering the countryside in Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, and Oblivion -- seeing what I can see, and becoming super powerful in the process. Luckily, that's part of what those games are about. The feeling of being a bit player in a world that's massive beyond comprehension is enough to get me playing the game, trying to see what I can see for hours and hours.
Some people really enjoyed the free invention mode in The Incredible Machine as well -- That doesn't mean they were playing the game wrong.
You might want to look at the Legacy of Kain series if you like story. The first was an action RPG, but the others are just adventure games.
When I think of some of the great western RPGs -- Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights, Baldurs Gate, and even quasi-RPGs like System Shock 2 and Deus Ex, I find that I have to disagree. The story was integral to all these games, more or less as expected.
Is there really a "western style" as such?
When I think of Knights of the Old Republic, for example, it seems very much like one of the more linear RPGs from Asia.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
/me loses a hand and falls a long distance.
Vader isn't Lukes father!
You know, sometimes I feel like advertisers have gone way too far, violating basic trusts -- violating even basic humanity. Hiring people to be pretend community members will eventually cause discussions to atrophe. I wish there was legal recourse.
However, whenever I'm feeling blue, I just reach for a cool, crisp, refreshing Pepsi One(tm). That's Pepsi One(tm) -- the cola whose mere existance breaks the fourth wall of reality, and allows one to look upon the face of their creator.
Please move along, there's nothing to see here. Go back to debating the war in Iraq and watching video news releases. You definitely don't need to know about any of this.
After all, it's only abuse of power if you're not the most powerful one. After that, it's simply manifest destiny.
Is the part where the game doesn't test to see if the card has appropriate shader capabilities before firing shader code to the video card also a feature of western RPGs?
Unfortunately, the design of the game is completely overshadowed by the bugs. Oblivion is the next in a long and proud lineage of utterly immersive, amazingly massive games that are also almost too broken to play; a lineage which includes Daggerfall and Battle Cruiser 3000AD.
You win a blue internets!
Actually, if a bunch of people were successfully doing for free what I did for a living? I'd either be forced to up the ante by showing what a dedicated professional was capable of that a weekend warrior wasn't, or go into the corner and commit ritual suicide to defend my honour.
The moment I start suing weekend warriors is the moment I demand to be given a knife and sent into the corner.