I played the first 3 Wizardry's with my brother. He was older so he usally got the keyboard and I manned the graph paper mapping and navigating for him. We occasionally fought over the keyboard too.
I remember getting stuck once and called Sir-Tech in NY in fustration. A person who sounded like a kid answered and very patiently explained what I needed to do. Free of charge too! I thought that was pretty cool of them.
If you played Wizardry 1 you'd remember the "Creeping Coins" which gave big XP points but you needed a mass destruction spell else you'd have to leave your chair and come back in 10 minutes until they finished attacking.
I don't need a "Blue Ribbon" to use the elevators here at work fortunately.
One of my first RPGs was Ultima III on the Apple IIe (yes, old timer). One of the best tricks that I did to entertain myself was the fact that treasure chests dropped by monsters outdoors were obstacles and permanent (until opened). Monsters also blindly followed you. So I put 2 and 2 together and strategically led and killed monsters until I had created a "monster zoo" outdoors filled with all sorts of helpless meanies trapped in treasure box pens.
The other trick I liked was to build boat bridges between islands using boats captured from pirates but that was a bit harder to pull off.
Up until about 2 years ago I was running Win 98 on a 486 ISA-VLB system. The drive controller card would always cause the bios to fail to boot the first time after power up forcing me to do a reset which always worked. That plus having to wiggle the keyboard connecter after a board trace cracked (or some sort of connector prob) to get it to work made for years of fun computing.
Well said. I think the attitude you described ultimately increases crime because it makes it impossible for anyone to truly make something of themselves after making amends. Yah, some of them really are miserable people or have drinking problems who'll never come clean but they aren't the rule. I can imagine the fustration of someone getting out of jail thinking they had paid their dues but never truly being allowed to move on. I wouldn't blame them for saying "f*k you" to the world after a while and committing another crime.
"The only end I can see for this is, when everyone is convicted or under suspicion for something, the attitude will shift and people will feel that if they are going to be continually punished, then they might as well keep doing the crime."
Give them time. They'll even make innocence a crime eventually.
They already have one pipeline for oil, what difference would it make to run a gas line next to it? At least a gas leak causes less damage than an oil leak.
Why don't they just use restraining orders? Then the offending person can't contact the person who took out the order.
This whole issue of adding laws on top of acts that are already crimes strikes me as pointless. It is like "hate crime" laws. As long as you only kill your own race it is ok? Maybe you have to be polite when you do the killing.
"Laws are not the key to solving social problems - education is."
I've told Mr Manson over and over again that killing people is wrong. He even passed the "Why Murder Sprees Are Bad 101" class. Maybe he just needs some tutoring.
Please, we've only scratched the surface of whether broccoli can grow in zero-g, can people do crossword puzzles in orbit, and whether monkeys can do spacewalks. If that isn't worth billions of dollars I don't know what is!
Hmmm, After rereading the parent's comment his wording is pretty odd. Technically EVERYONE is sentenced after being found guilty. What the sentence is is a different matter entirely. Maybe he meant the percent getting jail time or being found guilty in the first place?
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The first sign of this collapse is the loss of spelling skills.
We are more advanced. Instead of putting them in jail we diagnose our kids as ADD and give them drugs.
Blame the popularity of the band "Ween"
My living in a democracy must be why I've only done 8 hr sessions.
I'd mod you up if I could.
I played the first 3 Wizardry's with my brother. He was older so he usally got the keyboard and I manned the graph paper mapping and navigating for him. We occasionally fought over the keyboard too.
I remember getting stuck once and called Sir-Tech in NY in fustration. A person who sounded like a kid answered and very patiently explained what I needed to do. Free of charge too! I thought that was pretty cool of them.
If you played Wizardry 1 you'd remember the "Creeping Coins" which gave big XP points but you needed a mass destruction spell else you'd have to leave your chair and come back in 10 minutes until they finished attacking.
I don't need a "Blue Ribbon" to use the elevators here at work fortunately.
Mock Theta Functions are equations that make fun of Theta Functions.
There goes my Mock Theta Function solving hobby.
One of my first RPGs was Ultima III on the Apple IIe (yes, old timer). One of the best tricks that I did to entertain myself was the fact that treasure chests dropped by monsters outdoors were obstacles and permanent (until opened). Monsters also blindly followed you. So I put 2 and 2 together and strategically led and killed monsters until I had created a "monster zoo" outdoors filled with all sorts of helpless meanies trapped in treasure box pens.
The other trick I liked was to build boat bridges between islands using boats captured from pirates but that was a bit harder to pull off.
It's always fun to find loop-holes in games.
Up until about 2 years ago I was running Win 98 on a 486 ISA-VLB system. The drive controller card would always cause the bios to fail to boot the first time after power up forcing me to do a reset which always worked. That plus having to wiggle the keyboard connecter after a board trace cracked (or some sort of connector prob) to get it to work made for years of fun computing.
Well said. I think the attitude you described ultimately increases crime because it makes it impossible for anyone to truly make something of themselves after making amends. Yah, some of them really are miserable people or have drinking problems who'll never come clean but they aren't the rule. I can imagine the fustration of someone getting out of jail thinking they had paid their dues but never truly being allowed to move on. I wouldn't blame them for saying "f*k you" to the world after a while and committing another crime.
"The only end I can see for this is, when everyone is convicted or under suspicion for something, the attitude will shift and people will feel that if they are going to be continually punished, then they might as well keep doing the crime."
Give them time. They'll even make innocence a crime eventually.
Unfortunately the kin of murder victims don't have lobbyists working for them.
I thought they were just going to have some guy from "extremeoverclockers.com" go in and fiddle with the rover's bios.
Too bad it always runs as "Administrator"
They already have one pipeline for oil, what difference would it make to run a gas line next to it? At least a gas leak causes less damage than an oil leak.
But will Mars have an open mail relay for me to send Vigr1@ and refinancing spam to the rover?
Why don't they just use restraining orders? Then the offending person can't contact the person who took out the order.
This whole issue of adding laws on top of acts that are already crimes strikes me as pointless. It is like "hate crime" laws. As long as you only kill your own race it is ok? Maybe you have to be polite when you do the killing.
"Laws are not the key to solving social problems - education is."
I've told Mr Manson over and over again that killing people is wrong. He even passed the "Why Murder Sprees Are Bad 101" class. Maybe he just needs some tutoring.
Please, we've only scratched the surface of whether broccoli can grow in zero-g, can people do crossword puzzles in orbit, and whether monkeys can do spacewalks. If that isn't worth billions of dollars I don't know what is!
I hope they also use mesquite in their charcoal. I like my car exhhaust to have that flavor that only mesquite can deliver.
Will the new engines come with a grill?
"All your internal organ are belong to us!"
"Game Development Conditions Could Drive Devs East "
I look forward to more game developers moving to the Boston area.
Corruption and being ignored are a form of tyranny also.
They'd never make it because Ben & Jerry's won't use artifical (fake) ingrediants. "Tastes like fudge, sorta"
I know one way to get him to produce an original performance. Show him the evidence and I guarantee he'll be playing a different tune!
Hmmm, After rereading the parent's comment his wording is pretty odd. Technically EVERYONE is sentenced after being found guilty. What the sentence is is a different matter entirely. Maybe he meant the percent getting jail time or being found guilty in the first place?