RE zombie- I had a recent experience with prozac that corroborates neatly with what you mentioned.
When one of my typical worries sprung up I would torture myself with endless rumination on the hopelessness of the situation. This mental process is soon accompanied by a visceral feeling somewhere near the bowels that would move up to the chest and 'flow' like a circulating jet stream. The areas it affected and the manner in which it spread was similar to an adrenaline rush, but the sensation is something else entirely that I can only describe as a stressful tightening. (Probably identical to the physical sink you feel in your chest.)
To treat a recent surge of depression I started prozac earlier this month. The prescribed regiment is to begin at a low dose that will be titrated upwards from 5 to 20mg. When I begun at the low doses the effects of the drug was dampened but still apparent, so I got to experience a kind of midway between debilitating physically-felt depression and the alleviating affects of the SSRI drugs.
One night while on a low dose my thoughts started dwelling on an anxious/depressing thought and I could feel the beginnings of the visceral tightening that it triggers -- but it was halted; I could literally feel the sensation ceasing somewhere in my chest where normally it would continue in that circulating jet stream until my whole chest was strained with tension.
The depressive ruminating was still going on in my head, the medication did nothing to stop it, instead it was the associated physical strain that was treated.
Alle die Weisesten aller der Zeiten
lächeln und winken und stimmen mit ein:
Töricht, auf Bess'rung der Toren zu harren!
Kinder der Klugheit, o habet die Narren
eben zum Narren auch, wie sich's gehört!
- All the wisest of every age are in agreement: it is foolish to wait for fools to be cured of their folly! The proper thing to do is to make fools of the fools!
Or:
All of the wise men in all of the ages, / Smile and nod and agree one and all:/It is foolish to wait for fools to be better, / Children of cleverness, make dupes of / The stupid, too, as is their due
get this shit out of here... this topic has been done, and the consensus was made: your definition of "gamer" differs from the real world's if you're going to include a bored housewife or widowed grandma in the same group as a 13-hour-a-day MMORPG player or CPL-hopeful FPS junkie
isn't that the whole point? having a good time with friends?
i remember realizing this some time during my ROM collecting phase -- it didn't take long before i realized that it wasn't the gameplay i craved but the memories of that time of life (childhood).
tell me how one's fond recollections of videogame playing--with brothers, sisters, neighborhood friends--are different from your grandparent's stories of fort building and crayfish hunting?
They say that by practicing it pushes your brain to speed up... our scientists believe this will lead to quicker thinking, faster responses, and fuller understanding.
I know that (forgive my sweeping ignorance) memories are forged by neural pathways being reinforced by repition; and we're all familiar with plasticity, eg blind people who acquire acute hearing as a way of coping with their loss by "exercising" the parts of the brain that deal with hearing.
There could be some legitimacy behind this program under these principals, couldn't there? If you constantly tax those parts of the brain through these tests, as those who are blind do every day, couldn't you reap the same benefits?
Here's a snip of some of the benefits I'm talking about, taken from a clinical study on the subject.
This study will examine whether blind people develop changes in the brain that improve memory function. Previous studies have shown that blind people, on average, perform better in memory tasks than sighted people. A possible reason for this is that parts of the brain that process visual information in sighted individuals are engaged in processing mnemonic (remembering) information in blind people.
I would contest that it is at preview time where the press can make the most positive contribution to an otherwise poor game - with constructive criticism, and not, mind, the opposite of the sugar coating we see now and simple-minded trashing of seemingly poor games, the press can affect the thinking of developers so that the final product will be much better received than it would be with great previews and then trashy reviews, which takes away from the standing of the publication as well as sinking many the game.
What you might want to consider doing - if you want to maintain the flow of your reading, although this is laregely subjective and one might argue that personal preference, however daft-seeming, is the only determining force needed, is separate your thoughs with periods instead of commas, and move on, and not elongate 4 sentences worth of text into one desultory screed.
I know that, for the most part, comments like Harrisons are just the marketing version of "my processor is faster than yours" but I'm honestly surprised at the level of arrogance displayed there. Since the PSP's launch, Slashdot Games has posted article after article with titles like PSP Reception Lukewarm in U.S., PSP Not A Sellout Hit, What's Up With The PSP?, and most recently PSP Usage Lower Than Expected. This last article is especially disheartening for Sony execs because those numbers come from Japan, a nation that has traditionally been Sony's bread basket. If it's not doing well here, and it's not doing well there...do they really think that many Europeans are going to buy it when it launches there next week?
I wonder, and I'm being very sincere here - when the last time Zonk ever partook in sexual intercourse.
Nearly every Western scientific advancement made before 1950, which have lead to the discovery cited in this article, was created in a Euro-Christian society.
Blow your reactionary anti-Christian worldview out your fetus-hating ass.
this reminds me of a board script kiddy friend of mine. 15 year old kid with bot-nets in the septuple digits.
often when he was utterly bored he would ask me to give him something to take down. after about 15 minutes of watching television commercials, i'd have a good collection of URL's from bunco scams like www.11homebusiness.com.
This is what Lucas had to say about Yoda, when they introduced him in The Empire Strikes Back:
That was like a real leap
beacuse if that puppet had not worked
the whole film would have been down the tubes
it just, you know woulda been a disaster, it would've been a silly little muppet...
the whole movie would've collapsed under the weight of it.
(quote from the bonus feature DVD in the original trilogy box set)
Now, apply this quote to what Hayden Christensen has done to Darth Vader, one of the most memorable and recognizable villains in all of cinema history, and what do you get?
and i only ever use it for the Opie and Anthony show.
i know a very sizeable portion of subscribers are there for the same reason.
and consider how many sirius owners are buying that equipment just for stern, and will likely hardly explore the service after receiving it (which they won't have long to do, because sirius is going down faster than.... something that goes down very fast pending a stupid business decision[see: 1/2 a billion dollars for howard stern + fewer subscribers than xm]).
the market for satellite radio is about 4-5 million big including xm and sirius, relatively small compared to ipod owners and internet radio streaming listeners. and neither sat radio services have eeked out a signifcant presence in the place where it really matters - the auto industry. the furthest it's gotten is xm included in hyundais (http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Bu siness&article=UPI-1-20050323-16064200-bc-us-hyund ai-xm.xml), hardly braggable.
If People Want To Believe What They Want Then Who Are You To Tell Them How To Think?
Last Time I Checked It Was A Free Country. You Cant Tell People What To Believe, Thats Why The Men Who Founded This Great Nation Of Ours Put In The Separation Of The Church And State!
Tweak that number to account for militant firefox zealots forcibly downloadig/installing firefox on every public, friend and family member's PC, who in turn don't even notice the firefox icon in the start menu and never give it a second glance...
While in 9th grade, high school, 1999, I had completed with a 3.89 GPA. This was also the beginning of my experience with computers, and subsequently, the internet.
By 10th grade I had gotten my own high-end pre built system, with gaming, IMing and all the other typical teenaged internet tasks at mind. My cum. GPA at the end of that year was a solid 3.5 including some honors classes.
At 11th, I had built my own rig and gotten cable internet - heightening the many brain atrophying tasks available to me. I engaged in them incessantly, at the expense of my health, hygene, social life, and grades. I had barely managed to keep a B average that year, lowering my cum. GPA to about 3.2.
By senior year I almost totally isolated myself from the real world. Social outings were rare and dispursed. My interest in school and life in general asymptotically decreased. I refused to engage in school related or other extracirricular activities - I avoided getting a senior picture taken, didn't order a year book, and didn't even go to the graduation ceremony; I had it sent to me in the mail. Cum. GPA at the end of this year, 3.01.
After graduation in 2003, despite modertly above average grades and SAT scores, I could only muster the motivation to bother completing one college application, to which I was accepted. I quickly realized I didn't want to go after visiting an orientation.
I now sit in my parents basement, to turn 20 years old in a month's time, taking basic community college courses with hopes of transfering to a 4 year university - and am still plagued with the dissinterested lack of motivation and anxiety to face reality that put me here in the first place.
What a pathetic faggot. I would recommend you don't let this happen to you or yours, especially if, like myself, they have any kind of antisocial proclivities.
Sounds like it's truely analogous to natl. TV and RADIO airwaves, since they are operated by the govt. and are right to be held by the same standards.
Let em get private access if they want it. The govt. shouldn't be providing porn to TRUCKERS, sooner than later one of em will decide the pictures aren't good enough and will start seeking it out in the flesh - whether the second half of the equation concents or not.
Re:Now that it's being considered important
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Have you not seen any episodes out of season 16?
Now that it's being considered important
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maybe the recent barage of anti-Christian jokes, which are very in vogue in the current climate, should be taken with more than a grain of salt?
I can't count on my hands and feet how many time's I've heard Catholic=pedophile jokes, yet the second there's something about the Quran or the slightest "anti semetic" utterence it becomes a national news sensation.
Slashdot Mirror
RE zombie- I had a recent experience with prozac that corroborates neatly with what you mentioned. When one of my typical worries sprung up I would torture myself with endless rumination on the hopelessness of the situation. This mental process is soon accompanied by a visceral feeling somewhere near the bowels that would move up to the chest and 'flow' like a circulating jet stream. The areas it affected and the manner in which it spread was similar to an adrenaline rush, but the sensation is something else entirely that I can only describe as a stressful tightening. (Probably identical to the physical sink you feel in your chest.)
To treat a recent surge of depression I started prozac earlier this month. The prescribed regiment is to begin at a low dose that will be titrated upwards from 5 to 20mg. When I begun at the low doses the effects of the drug was dampened but still apparent, so I got to experience a kind of midway between debilitating physically-felt depression and the alleviating affects of the SSRI drugs. One night while on a low dose my thoughts started dwelling on an anxious/depressing thought and I could feel the beginnings of the visceral tightening that it triggers -- but it was halted; I could literally feel the sensation ceasing somewhere in my chest where normally it would continue in that circulating jet stream until my whole chest was strained with tension.
The depressive ruminating was still going on in my head, the medication did nothing to stop it, instead it was the associated physical strain that was treated.
Alle die Weisesten aller der Zeiten lächeln und winken und stimmen mit ein: Töricht, auf Bess'rung der Toren zu harren! Kinder der Klugheit, o habet die Narren eben zum Narren auch, wie sich's gehört! - All the wisest of every age are in agreement: it is foolish to wait for fools to be cured of their folly! The proper thing to do is to make fools of the fools! Or: All of the wise men in all of the ages, / Smile and nod and agree one and all: /It is foolish to wait for fools to be better, / Children of cleverness, make dupes of / The stupid, too, as is their due
get this shit out of here... this topic has been done, and the consensus was made: your definition of "gamer" differs from the real world's if you're going to include a bored housewife or widowed grandma in the same group as a 13-hour-a-day MMORPG player or CPL-hopeful FPS junkie
isn't that the whole point? having a good time with friends?
i remember realizing this some time during my ROM collecting phase -- it didn't take long before i realized that it wasn't the gameplay i craved but the memories of that time of life (childhood).
tell me how one's fond recollections of videogame playing--with brothers, sisters, neighborhood friends--are different from your grandparent's stories of fort building and crayfish hunting?
They say that by practicing it pushes your brain to speed up ... our scientists believe this will lead to quicker thinking, faster responses, and fuller understanding.
I know that (forgive my sweeping ignorance) memories are forged by neural pathways being reinforced by repition; and we're all familiar with plasticity, eg blind people who acquire acute hearing as a way of coping with their loss by "exercising" the parts of the brain that deal with hearing.
There could be some legitimacy behind this program under these principals, couldn't there? If you constantly tax those parts of the brain through these tests, as those who are blind do every day, couldn't you reap the same benefits? Here's a snip of some of the benefits I'm talking about, taken from a clinical study on the subject.
This study will examine whether blind people develop changes in the brain that improve memory function. Previous studies have shown that blind people, on average, perform better in memory tasks than sighted people. A possible reason for this is that parts of the brain that process visual information in sighted individuals are engaged in processing mnemonic (remembering) information in blind people.
Your thoughts BWJones?
I would contest that it is at preview time where the press can make the most positive contribution to an otherwise poor game - with constructive criticism, and not, mind, the opposite of the sugar coating we see now and simple-minded trashing of seemingly poor games, the press can affect the thinking of developers so that the final product will be much better received than it would be with great previews and then trashy reviews, which takes away from the standing of the publication as well as sinking many the game.
What you might want to consider doing - if you want to maintain the flow of your reading, although this is laregely subjective and one might argue that personal preference, however daft-seeming, is the only determining force needed, is separate your thoughs with periods instead of commas, and move on, and not elongate 4 sentences worth of text into one desultory screed.
thank you for giving me a big enough erection to do sometihng with
Good to know that if common sense conservatism still exists anywhere in America, it exist in the richest and most powerful corporation in existence.
I know that, for the most part, comments like Harrisons are just the marketing version of "my processor is faster than yours" but I'm honestly surprised at the level of arrogance displayed there. Since the PSP's launch, Slashdot Games has posted article after article with titles like PSP Reception Lukewarm in U.S., PSP Not A Sellout Hit, What's Up With The PSP?, and most recently PSP Usage Lower Than Expected. This last article is especially disheartening for Sony execs because those numbers come from Japan, a nation that has traditionally been Sony's bread basket. If it's not doing well here, and it's not doing well there...do they really think that many Europeans are going to buy it when it launches there next week?
I wonder, and I'm being very sincere here - when the last time Zonk ever partook in sexual intercourse.
what a pitiful attempt at brining some kind of fervor and frucus to the dreadfully and hopelessly boring 'video game industry'
I wish I had points so I could mod you down.
Nearly every Western scientific advancement made before 1950, which have lead to the discovery cited in this article, was created in a Euro-Christian society.
Blow your reactionary anti-Christian worldview out your fetus-hating ass.
You are either a very skilled satirist, or a very dumb idealist.
this reminds me of a board script kiddy friend of mine. 15 year old kid with bot-nets in the septuple digits.
often when he was utterly bored he would ask me to give him something to take down. after about 15 minutes of watching television commercials, i'd have a good collection of URL's from bunco scams like www.11homebusiness.com.
doesn't bram work for the game software company valve?
This is what Lucas had to say about Yoda, when they introduced him in The Empire Strikes Back:
That was like a real leap
beacuse if that puppet had not worked
the whole film would have been down the tubes
it just, you know woulda been a disaster, it would've been a silly little muppet...
the whole movie would've collapsed under the weight of it.
(quote from the bonus feature DVD in the original trilogy box set)
Now, apply this quote to what Hayden Christensen has done to Darth Vader, one of the most memorable and recognizable villains in all of cinema history, and what do you get?
and i only ever use it for the Opie and Anthony show.
.... something that goes down very fast pending a stupid business decision[see: 1/2 a billion dollars for howard stern + fewer subscribers than xm]).
u siness&article=UPI-1-20050323-16064200-bc-us-hyund ai-xm.xml), hardly braggable.
i know a very sizeable portion of subscribers are there for the same reason.
and consider how many sirius owners are buying that equipment just for stern, and will likely hardly explore the service after receiving it (which they won't have long to do, because sirius is going down faster than
the market for satellite radio is about 4-5 million big including xm and sirius, relatively small compared to ipod owners and internet radio streaming listeners. and neither sat radio services have eeked out a signifcant presence in the place where it really matters - the auto industry. the furthest it's gotten is xm included in hyundais (http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=B
What Does It Matter To You Anyway?
If People Want To Believe What They Want Then Who Are You To Tell Them How To Think?
Last Time I Checked It Was A Free Country. You Cant Tell People What To Believe, Thats Why The Men Who Founded This Great Nation Of Ours Put In The Separation Of The Church And State!
oh shush up slutty mcfatkins
its sad to think people pay subscription money so you could write trite claptrap,
measly karma whore
why the fuck?
a shdot.html
here's a revelation:
DON'T GIVE THEM ATTENTION
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/klee/misc/sl
Tweak that number to account for militant firefox zealots forcibly downloadig/installing firefox on every public, friend and family member's PC, who in turn don't even notice the firefox icon in the start menu and never give it a second glance...
While in 9th grade, high school, 1999, I had completed with a 3.89 GPA. This was also the beginning of my experience with computers, and subsequently, the internet.
By 10th grade I had gotten my own high-end pre built system, with gaming, IMing and all the other typical teenaged internet tasks at mind. My cum. GPA at the end of that year was a solid 3.5 including some honors classes.
At 11th, I had built my own rig and gotten cable internet - heightening the many brain atrophying tasks available to me. I engaged in them incessantly, at the expense of my health, hygene, social life, and grades. I had barely managed to keep a B average that year, lowering my cum. GPA to about 3.2.
By senior year I almost totally isolated myself from the real world. Social outings were rare and dispursed. My interest in school and life in general asymptotically decreased. I refused to engage in school related or other extracirricular activities - I avoided getting a senior picture taken, didn't order a year book, and didn't even go to the graduation ceremony; I had it sent to me in the mail. Cum. GPA at the end of this year, 3.01.
After graduation in 2003, despite modertly above average grades and SAT scores, I could only muster the motivation to bother completing one college application, to which I was accepted. I quickly realized I didn't want to go after visiting an orientation.
I now sit in my parents basement, to turn 20 years old in a month's time, taking basic community college courses with hopes of transfering to a 4 year university - and am still plagued with the dissinterested lack of motivation and anxiety to face reality that put me here in the first place.
What a pathetic faggot. I would recommend you don't let this happen to you or yours, especially if, like myself, they have any kind of antisocial proclivities.
like the /. alarmists are at it again.
Sounds like it's truely analogous to natl. TV and RADIO airwaves, since they are operated by the govt. and are right to be held by the same standards.
Let em get private access if they want it. The govt. shouldn't be providing porn to TRUCKERS, sooner than later one of em will decide the pictures aren't good enough and will start seeking it out in the flesh - whether the second half of the equation concents or not.
Have you not seen any episodes out of season 16?
maybe the recent barage of anti-Christian jokes, which are very in vogue in the current climate, should be taken with more than a grain of salt?
I can't count on my hands and feet how many time's I've heard Catholic=pedophile jokes, yet the second there's something about the Quran or the slightest "anti semetic" utterence it becomes a national news sensation.