The team has completely redesigned all the familiar Force powers from the first title including Force Push and Force Grip
Why do I suddenly have a vision of thousands of stormtroopers covering their balls as they shout "sir, no sir, we didn't see you playing with your dolls sir"...
No, he already knows so much is wrong with it, and what is wrong with his hooey.
But he knows if he suddenly announces he's been wrong, his funding from the groups that pay him to reach preordained, nonscientific "conclusions" dries up.
I really hope you're using an open-ended version of the game, a la 2nd Edition, and not bothering to stick miniatures and a square map all over the table. Let her use her imagination to see the battles, too.
Isn't the real problem the fact that the performance of this card is meaningless? There's a refresh limitation on monitors. Since the PC gaming market's been basically dead for 5 years, what is really going to tax its performance - you don't really think anyone except for masochists are actually willing to subject themselves to Crysis's "gameplay", for instance, rather than just running the glorified tech demo as a benchmark over and over again.
And if you're looking for maxed frames on World of Warcraft, or any other MMO, chances are you can achieve it with cards from 4 years ago still.
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"6 hours"? You're joking, right?
The school day (average kid) where I grew up was as follows: 6 AM: Get out of bed. 6:30 AM: Be on bus to school. Be Fucking Quiet for an hour, the bus driver didn't want to have to deal with kids. 7:30 AM: Unload from buses in "orderly fashion." 7:45 AM: first class begins. 11:30 AM: Lunch period begins. Orderly file through line, either eat bag lunch or "hot lunch" option. "Be Quiet" as teachers monitor you. 12:15 PM: here begins "15 minute recess", consisting of 5 minutes of lining up to go outside, 5 minutes of play, 5 minutes of lining up to go back inside. 12:30 PM: Classes resume. 4 PM: Reload on buses. Once again, Be Fucking Quiet. 5-5:30 PM: Get back home, depending on traffic. 5:30 PM-6:30PM: Dinner. 6:30PM-8PM: "Homework", consisting of the boring fucking busy-work that nevertheless will fuck your grades over if you don't do it. 8pm-9PM: optional (PARENT option, not kid option) practicing of musical instrument or singing if you were enrolled in Music Concentration Camp... er "Music Class" of some sort where we never got to perform anything truly interesting.
Small wonder the kids have no creativity. The fact that I have mine still is only a function of the fact that I convinced most of my teachers to just give me the homework listings ahead of time and let me do it during school time sitting in the back of class, rather than wasting my evenings on the fucking busy work.
Uhm... I bought two separate, single-player X-Arcade sticks, instead of the 2-player model. I don't want to be hip-to-hip and trading elbow jabs on the couch either. Didn't make that much difference in cost.
Almost forgot: some people will say "yeah but those are expensive." My response: I've had over a decade of use on my pair, and they are still working flawlessly today. Just imagine the number of crap sticks (like those cheaply made piece of crap "Street Fighter IV Fighting Sticks" that wandered out from Crapcom for 360 and PS3, and ONLY work on their respective consoles) you'd buy over the years keeping up.
Pay a little more up-front to have something high-quality, that has a lifetime warranty on parts, that you can easily repair yourself without voiding the warranty, and that is cheaply upgradable to work when you update your console. It's well worth it.
Actual arcade hardware. USB connector, or the option to stick in modular controllers for PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox360... you name it. Lifetime warranty and EASY user servicing, too. Shoot them an email if any component fails, they'll mail you the replacement part, you stick it in yourself, easy as can be.
I bought a pair years ago, been upgrading them (very cheaply) as new systems came out. Love them and highly recommend them.
Scuse you? Past experience indicates the wider these lardasses are, the more they ignore anyone saying "excuse me", "please let me pass", or anything similar. Especially when they are impeding the orderly flow of traffic in a walkway, or down a store aisle.
Oddly enough, these lardasses (when crossreferenced with specific populations in which the nickname "Bubba" or "Esse" predominate) represent approximately half of the dumbass morons who seem to require a gigantic SUV and two lanes of the road, rather than the standard one, to transport them to wherever they need to go. The other half of that group, equally bizarrely, is comprised almost entirely of approximately 75-lb, 4'8" tall asian or hispanic-looking women who communicate in a tongue other than English - sometimes Spanish, but just as often Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or perhaps simply atonal shrieking designed to frighten the crap out anything larger than they are, much like the yapping and yipping of a small dog.
I've seen those walkways. Problem is, they are maybe 3.5-4 feet wide, which means all it takes is one lazy lardass to make the whole "passing" idea impossible.
No kidding. Allow a 5-foot wide walkway to account for lardasses with humongous posteriors (and you'd have to otherwise they spill into adjoining lanes and hit people), and your top speed 30-mph is then 30 feet in... that's as wide as a 3-lane highway, requiring 60 ft plus any servicing areas on the sides to account for both directions.
And yeah, I already get mad at people who get on a peoplemover and stand still in front of me. Imagine the road rage of everyone standing behind the aforementioned lardass, wondering why he's in the 30mph lane when they want to add their own walking speed on top of it?
The problem is getting onto, or off of, really fast-moving sidewalks. One person trips, next thing you know you have a pile of bodies and all injured.
Want to set up a sequence of them that all are separated by even 5 mph difference (and that's plenty fast)? Good luck managing it. That's as wide as a 3-lane highway.
Got someone trying to carry groceries, or a couple bags? Whoops, even more trouble balancing. Here we go again...
It fell apart the moment people even started imagining the basic problems with people trying to use it on a larger scale. Hell, look at Asimov's discussion of the topic (The Caves of Steel) talking about the immense problems that happened when someone tripped and fell onto the strips.
Narcotics Anonymous, on the other hand, is an actual treatment program, the name of which $cientologists deliberately mirrored in their scam setup in order to confuse people into thinking narCONon is somehow legitimate.
No such competition exists for things like electricity and water (at least in most cities). For those products, you can neither decide to purchase from a competitor nor decide not to purchase at all.
Well, you can "kinda sorta" - you could build an outhouse in your backyard or a full septic tank in your backyard, provided your local building code allows it. You could install a rainwater collector, filtration system, or simply purchase what water you need from an alternate supplier (though at the cost per gallon, that's suicidal). You could, provided the groundwater quality in your area isn't shit and again that local building codes would allow it, even dig your own well and install your own pump.
You could install a gas/propane/etc generator, or solar cells and some battery storage, if you want to try to go without being "plugged in" to the electric grid, or you could even do without air conditioning and heat what you need to in your house with some other form of heating like a wood-burning stove or fireplace. You could your cooking on a propane or charcoal grill.
Of course, good luck managing to do this in any major city or if you have kids, unless you're Amish or Mennonite. Raise kids in that environment, and the local constabulary will be up your ass with "child welfare" authorities in tow, looking for any excuse they can manufacture to take your kids away and force you to pay up for local utilities...
Capitalism would be just fine if not for our ridiculous "corporate personhood" doctrine, the result of a few corrupt assholes in black robes called the "Supreme Court" getting paid off at just the right time.
The end result is the corporatist government of the US today - laws written by the corporations, for the corporations, Fuck The People. Our two-party system hasn't helped much either, if you look at each party, it's not a question of one party being corporatist and the other not, it's just which corporations the party in question is a stooge of. Both parties are beholden to the MafiAA/"entertainment" types, which is why copyright law is so fucked up. Both parties are beholden to Big Oil - sure the Democraps talk a good game to keep their sierra club/PETA/ecoterrorist types on board, but at the end of the day, do you really think they're going to do something that seriously causes trouble for the big oil corporations? I doubt it.
Illegal immigration? The Democraps are sure that the illegal immigrants are going to become their new core voting block, just like the blacks they've kept uneducated in ghettos for the past 40 years are today. The Rethuglicans, or at least most of their higher ranking members, salivate at illegal immigration as a way to keep wages down and prevent the middle class from growing. And if someone from either side happens to talk about illegal immigration sanely, well, watch what happens to them - just look what happened to Lou Dobbs getting bounced from CNN when they went on their "Mexico Uber Alles" kick, or the fact that Duncan Hunter got basically held off camera in the Rethuglican debates.
They're not lying. It's bias. Some might not even know they're doing it.
Obviously you never heard of Journolist or saw the coordination efforts of people like Ezra Klein to slant media coverage over every network they could reach.
Ok, what do "rationality" and "human compassion" have to say about theft? Embezzlement? Pyramid schemes? Government takeovers? Thoughtcrime legislation? Deliberate dilution of wages? Deliberately screwing workers by importing far more people than the job market can support? Deliberately fucking over workers with "free trade" agreements that fail to protect jobs from predation by slave-labor countries?
I'm not a hardcore libertarian. I fully support reasonable regulation of markets to prevent monopolistic practices, price gouging, and mistreatment of workers. On the other hand, I'm not so fond of people who think that a 60% tax rate based on gross income (rather than net) is a good idea. And I certainly can't stick with the liberal concept of the "personhood" of corporations.
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The team has completely redesigned all the familiar Force powers from the first title including Force Push and Force Grip
Why do I suddenly have a vision of thousands of stormtroopers covering their balls as they shout "sir, no sir, we didn't see you playing with your dolls sir"...
No, he already knows so much is wrong with it, and what is wrong with his hooey.
But he knows if he suddenly announces he's been wrong, his funding from the groups that pay him to reach preordained, nonscientific "conclusions" dries up.
I really hope you're using an open-ended version of the game, a la 2nd Edition, and not bothering to stick miniatures and a square map all over the table. Let her use her imagination to see the battles, too.
Isn't the real problem the fact that the performance of this card is meaningless? There's a refresh limitation on monitors. Since the PC gaming market's been basically dead for 5 years, what is really going to tax its performance - you don't really think anyone except for masochists are actually willing to subject themselves to Crysis's "gameplay", for instance, rather than just running the glorified tech demo as a benchmark over and over again.
And if you're looking for maxed frames on World of Warcraft, or any other MMO, chances are you can achieve it with cards from 4 years ago still.
"6 hours"? You're joking, right?
The school day (average kid) where I grew up was as follows:
6 AM: Get out of bed.
6:30 AM: Be on bus to school. Be Fucking Quiet for an hour, the bus driver didn't want to have to deal with kids.
7:30 AM: Unload from buses in "orderly fashion."
7:45 AM: first class begins.
11:30 AM: Lunch period begins. Orderly file through line, either eat bag lunch or "hot lunch" option. "Be Quiet" as teachers monitor you.
12:15 PM: here begins "15 minute recess", consisting of 5 minutes of lining up to go outside, 5 minutes of play, 5 minutes of lining up to go back inside.
12:30 PM: Classes resume.
4 PM: Reload on buses. Once again, Be Fucking Quiet.
5-5:30 PM: Get back home, depending on traffic.
5:30 PM-6:30PM: Dinner.
6:30PM-8PM: "Homework", consisting of the boring fucking busy-work that nevertheless will fuck your grades over if you don't do it.
8pm-9PM: optional (PARENT option, not kid option) practicing of musical instrument or singing if you were enrolled in Music Concentration Camp... er "Music Class" of some sort where we never got to perform anything truly interesting.
Small wonder the kids have no creativity. The fact that I have mine still is only a function of the fact that I convinced most of my teachers to just give me the homework listings ahead of time and let me do it during school time sitting in the back of class, rather than wasting my evenings on the fucking busy work.
On the flipside, I've met many people with a "Master's Degree" who were incapable of tying their own shoes, much less doing anything useful.
Uhm... I bought two separate, single-player X-Arcade sticks, instead of the 2-player model. I don't want to be hip-to-hip and trading elbow jabs on the couch either. Didn't make that much difference in cost.
Almost forgot: some people will say "yeah but those are expensive." My response: I've had over a decade of use on my pair, and they are still working flawlessly today. Just imagine the number of crap sticks (like those cheaply made piece of crap "Street Fighter IV Fighting Sticks" that wandered out from Crapcom for 360 and PS3, and ONLY work on their respective consoles) you'd buy over the years keeping up.
Pay a little more up-front to have something high-quality, that has a lifetime warranty on parts, that you can easily repair yourself without voiding the warranty, and that is cheaply upgradable to work when you update your console. It's well worth it.
You want X-Arcade sticks.
Actual arcade hardware. USB connector, or the option to stick in modular controllers for PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox360... you name it. Lifetime warranty and EASY user servicing, too. Shoot them an email if any component fails, they'll mail you the replacement part, you stick it in yourself, easy as can be.
I bought a pair years ago, been upgrading them (very cheaply) as new systems came out. Love them and highly recommend them.
Scuse you? Past experience indicates the wider these lardasses are, the more they ignore anyone saying "excuse me", "please let me pass", or anything similar. Especially when they are impeding the orderly flow of traffic in a walkway, or down a store aisle.
Oddly enough, these lardasses (when crossreferenced with specific populations in which the nickname "Bubba" or "Esse" predominate) represent approximately half of the dumbass morons who seem to require a gigantic SUV and two lanes of the road, rather than the standard one, to transport them to wherever they need to go. The other half of that group, equally bizarrely, is comprised almost entirely of approximately 75-lb, 4'8" tall asian or hispanic-looking women who communicate in a tongue other than English - sometimes Spanish, but just as often Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or perhaps simply atonal shrieking designed to frighten the crap out anything larger than they are, much like the yapping and yipping of a small dog.
I've seen those walkways. Problem is, they are maybe 3.5-4 feet wide, which means all it takes is one lazy lardass to make the whole "passing" idea impossible.
Lemme guess. I'm modded "flamebait" because some fatass didn't like being called a lardass, right?
It's reality. The people using the walkway are going to be these people. Five feet may not even be wide enough in some cases.
Wow. The level of depressing buzzword reliance just hurt my brain.
Remember: every time humanity comes up with an idiot-proof contraption, nature designs a better idiot.
No kidding. Allow a 5-foot wide walkway to account for lardasses with humongous posteriors (and you'd have to otherwise they spill into adjoining lanes and hit people), and your top speed 30-mph is then 30 feet in... that's as wide as a 3-lane highway, requiring 60 ft plus any servicing areas on the sides to account for both directions.
And yeah, I already get mad at people who get on a peoplemover and stand still in front of me. Imagine the road rage of everyone standing behind the aforementioned lardass, wondering why he's in the 30mph lane when they want to add their own walking speed on top of it?
The problem is getting onto, or off of, really fast-moving sidewalks. One person trips, next thing you know you have a pile of bodies and all injured.
Want to set up a sequence of them that all are separated by even 5 mph difference (and that's plenty fast)? Good luck managing it. That's as wide as a 3-lane highway.
Got someone trying to carry groceries, or a couple bags? Whoops, even more trouble balancing. Here we go again...
It fell apart the moment people even started imagining the basic problems with people trying to use it on a larger scale. Hell, look at Asimov's discussion of the topic (The Caves of Steel) talking about the immense problems that happened when someone tripped and fell onto the strips.
Sigh.
narCONon is a $cientology front group. It has repeatedly been found either ineffective or downright harmful.
Narcotics Anonymous, on the other hand, is an actual treatment program, the name of which $cientologists deliberately mirrored in their scam setup in order to confuse people into thinking narCONon is somehow legitimate.
I don't know who reedited that particular page - was it you, perhaps? Certainly, other pages say differently.
Major danger of linking Shitopedia, I know. You never know who's going to make it change, for what POV, at what time.
Then again, the debate still goes on today, for all the good it's really doing us...
No such competition exists for things like electricity and water (at least in most cities). For those products, you can neither decide to purchase from a competitor nor decide not to purchase at all.
Well, you can "kinda sorta" - you could build an outhouse in your backyard or a full septic tank in your backyard, provided your local building code allows it. You could install a rainwater collector, filtration system, or simply purchase what water you need from an alternate supplier (though at the cost per gallon, that's suicidal). You could, provided the groundwater quality in your area isn't shit and again that local building codes would allow it, even dig your own well and install your own pump.
You could install a gas/propane/etc generator, or solar cells and some battery storage, if you want to try to go without being "plugged in" to the electric grid, or you could even do without air conditioning and heat what you need to in your house with some other form of heating like a wood-burning stove or fireplace. You could your cooking on a propane or charcoal grill.
Of course, good luck managing to do this in any major city or if you have kids, unless you're Amish or Mennonite. Raise kids in that environment, and the local constabulary will be up your ass with "child welfare" authorities in tow, looking for any excuse they can manufacture to take your kids away and force you to pay up for local utilities...
Capitalism would be just fine if not for our ridiculous "corporate personhood" doctrine, the result of a few corrupt assholes in black robes called the "Supreme Court" getting paid off at just the right time.
The end result is the corporatist government of the US today - laws written by the corporations, for the corporations, Fuck The People. Our two-party system hasn't helped much either, if you look at each party, it's not a question of one party being corporatist and the other not, it's just which corporations the party in question is a stooge of. Both parties are beholden to the MafiAA/"entertainment" types, which is why copyright law is so fucked up. Both parties are beholden to Big Oil - sure the Democraps talk a good game to keep their sierra club/PETA/ecoterrorist types on board, but at the end of the day, do you really think they're going to do something that seriously causes trouble for the big oil corporations? I doubt it.
Illegal immigration? The Democraps are sure that the illegal immigrants are going to become their new core voting block, just like the blacks they've kept uneducated in ghettos for the past 40 years are today. The Rethuglicans, or at least most of their higher ranking members, salivate at illegal immigration as a way to keep wages down and prevent the middle class from growing. And if someone from either side happens to talk about illegal immigration sanely, well, watch what happens to them - just look what happened to Lou Dobbs getting bounced from CNN when they went on their "Mexico Uber Alles" kick, or the fact that Duncan Hunter got basically held off camera in the Rethuglican debates.
Take a look at the Obama campaign - especially when they deliberately cut off every bit of default identity detection on donations in order to deliberately enable donation fraud and refused to fix their deliberately broken process. Wonder where all that money was coming from, and what "interests" it supported? I don't.
Ever wondered why people don't take "climate science" seriously?
Because this kind of misrepresentation is par for the course amongst "climate scientists."
They're not lying. It's bias. Some might not even know they're doing it.
Obviously you never heard of Journolist or saw the coordination efforts of people like Ezra Klein to slant media coverage over every network they could reach.
Party affiliation? Excuse you?
The newsmedia has a liberal bias. Would I be happy with one with a conservative bias? When did I EVER state that that would be the case?
Is it too much to ask for a little HONESTY out of reporters?
Well, the Japanese and Jackie Chan...
Of course, this is nothing new. Westerners have been "renting" asian women especially for years, especially during armed conflicts...
Ok, what do "rationality" and "human compassion" have to say about theft? Embezzlement? Pyramid schemes? Government takeovers? Thoughtcrime legislation? Deliberate dilution of wages? Deliberately screwing workers by importing far more people than the job market can support? Deliberately fucking over workers with "free trade" agreements that fail to protect jobs from predation by slave-labor countries?
I'm not a hardcore libertarian. I fully support reasonable regulation of markets to prevent monopolistic practices, price gouging, and mistreatment of workers. On the other hand, I'm not so fond of people who think that a 60% tax rate based on gross income (rather than net) is a good idea. And I certainly can't stick with the liberal concept of the "personhood" of corporations.
Excuse you? Rationality and human compassion argue against most of the things liberals do today.