Wow, the ability to comment (rant) on a book you haven't even read! That's amazing!
Hence the [rant] tags - what, you were expecting even-handed, unbiased commentary? =]
If you had actually read the book you would be able to read the stories of the people who failed. You would read about people wondering if asking this question (what *should* I do with my life?) is too self-indulgent.
Actually, I was talking about these books in general. It would be a nice change of pace if this book does address these issues, but I was only ranting about what I read in the review, which neglects these points.
I forgot that if other people are suffering or poor it is not OK for others to try and be happy. Thanks for reminding me that what I have is "good enough", the attitude which has carried the human race so far!
If you are well fed and have a home, you should already be happy. If you aren't happy, go live on the streets for a few weeks eating other peoples garbage and then go back to your "unhappy life." You'll feel much better, I promise.
Do you even know what crushing poverty looks like? Have you ever gone hungry? Homeless? People in the first world are the fattest, most self indulgent group of people I have ever seen. Good or bad, how can we possibly be unhappy when we share a lifestyle that previously was only known to the upper castes of humanity.
I'm not saying people don't have a right to be happy, as you are implying I said. I am saying people should already be happy and STFU. Go out, have fun, read a book, but quit your bellyaching, you poor little rich (boy|girl)!
[rant] They never talk about the people that follow their dreams and fail spectacularly.
Ever notice how the people that do these things usually have a nest egg to fall back on? Poor rich people that are so bored with their jobs, boo fucking hoo.
People like that rarely grew up poor. I grew up poor (well, Canadian poor, which is not nearly as bad as, for example, Mexican poor) and I worked my ass off to get my "demeaning, wage slave" job - it's a fuck of a lot better than scrubbing toilets and working graveyard shifts at a liquor store for a fraction of what I earn now. The last two years since college have been like a fucking vacation compared to the six before it.
I only have to listen to this shit from people that grew up in the US and Canada. Every person I talk to that grew up poor (ie/ from Mexico, the Philipines, etc) is pleased as punch to be working their "wage slave" jobs.
I guess it's easy to wax poetically about the gutter if you have never really lived in it and can always crawl out. [/rant]
Wow, you guys were subtle. Last time I heard about something like this was in Wizards Castle in west edmonton mall. Somebody grabbed both the joysticks and pulled up really hard and the whole top of the unit came off - he then reached down and flicked the little white switch inside and racked up 100 credits or so. I heard it from a friend (not a friend of a friend) so this maybe never happened, but anyway, was not very subtle at all.
(For context, this was one of those NBA Jam machines where there was the big screen, three foot gap, then the "unit" which was wide and narrow with coin slots in the front and 4 joysticks on the top, IIRC)
A lot of people are claiming that using "he" is gender neutral and/or the correct pronoun to use when the gender is indeterminate.
However, my girlfriend (who has an English degree and a diploma in technical writing, although she's more of the researcher type) once told me that the way she was *always* taught was that the only correct way to refer to a gender indeterminate human in a document is to say "he or she" (and it has nothing to do with being PC either - she's about as PC as a smoking monkey in a leather thong). Also, IIRC, using past tense or "it" is incorrect and even s/he is frowned upon. All her style guides and textbooks back her up on this. A lot of the technical writers in her classes argued against this point but the instructors always backed her up.
Does anyone actually have a source on "he" being a gender neutral pronoun? What major style guide is this rule published in? (This isn't flamebait, I am honestly curious).
Doc Bruce Banner, Belted by gamma rays, Turned into the Hulk. Ain't he unglamo-rays! Wreckin' the town With the power of a bull, Ain't no monster clown Who is that lovable? It's ever lovin' Hulk! HULK!! HULK!!
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DEAR FUCKING GOD, [kde.org] that just turned me GAY.
Good, less competition for the rest of us. The female on the right is pretty hot.
(Well, except I'm practically married to an intelligent hottie already:)
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Incidently, I just found my new sig too! First engaging story in awhile...
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This kind of stuff has been on the Internet for years but Disney seems to pretend it doesn't exist. Anyone ever hear of any lawsuits coming out of this sort of fan art/fiction (other than Star Trek, which has gotten a lot of press here:).
(Note: I know the piece I am talking about is from the 60's, not implying it's unoriginal:)
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I'm not going to get it. And you shouldn't either.
Many people have hardware issues with various copy protection schemes (we're not necessarily talking old or obscure hardware either, though I have no specific examples), and many copy protection schemes create longer load times or adversely affect gameplay (ie/ ultima IX, which was slow enough without the increased overhead of a useless copy protection scheme).
Since the copy protection schemes are easily cracked (and often removed by official patches eventually) I agree that they are pointless and should not be used.
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In all seriousness, that's pretty cool. I could never get into Nethack. I like my rpgs with plenty of story.
I wish someone would approach the complexity/freedom of Nethack and combine it with a strong story. Of course, freedom and story are often at odds in games (Torment has an awesome story but it's quite linear, Nethack is the complete opposite)
Can anyone recommend some games that combine these two ingredients nicely?
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Has science finally managed to synthesize (sp?) Chris Rock? Cool.
Same shit, different pile, as the humble academics say.
Hence the [rant] tags - what, you were expecting even-handed, unbiased commentary? =]
Actually, I was talking about these books in general. It would be a nice change of pace if this book does address these issues, but I was only ranting about what I read in the review, which neglects these points.
If you are well fed and have a home, you should already be happy. If you aren't happy, go live on the streets for a few weeks eating other peoples garbage and then go back to your "unhappy life." You'll feel much better, I promise.
Do you even know what crushing poverty looks like? Have you ever gone hungry? Homeless? People in the first world are the fattest, most self indulgent group of people I have ever seen. Good or bad, how can we possibly be unhappy when we share a lifestyle that previously was only known to the upper castes of humanity.
I'm not saying people don't have a right to be happy, as you are implying I said. I am saying people should already be happy and STFU. Go out, have fun, read a book, but quit your bellyaching, you poor little rich (boy|girl)!
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They never talk about the people that follow their dreams and fail spectacularly.
Ever notice how the people that do these things usually have a nest egg to fall back on? Poor rich people that are so bored with their jobs, boo fucking hoo.
People like that rarely grew up poor. I grew up poor (well, Canadian poor, which is not nearly as bad as, for example, Mexican poor) and I worked my ass off to get my "demeaning, wage slave" job - it's a fuck of a lot better than scrubbing toilets and working graveyard shifts at a liquor store for a fraction of what I earn now. The last two years since college have been like a fucking vacation compared to the six before it.
I only have to listen to this shit from people that grew up in the US and Canada. Every person I talk to that grew up poor (ie/ from Mexico, the Philipines, etc) is pleased as punch to be working their "wage slave" jobs.
I guess it's easy to wax poetically about the gutter if you have never really lived in it and can always crawl out.
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Morrowind is extendable and modifiable. It only lacks multiplayer.
I would make a joke about them setting up for a dupe, but it's just not funny anymore. Sad, yes, funny, no.
Wow, you guys were subtle. Last time I heard about something like this was in Wizards Castle in west edmonton mall. Somebody grabbed both the joysticks and pulled up really hard and the whole top of the unit came off - he then reached down and flicked the little white switch inside and racked up 100 credits or so. I heard it from a friend (not a friend of a friend) so this maybe never happened, but anyway, was not very subtle at all.
(For context, this was one of those NBA Jam machines where there was the big screen, three foot gap, then the "unit" which was wide and narrow with coin slots in the front and 4 joysticks on the top, IIRC)
A lot of people are claiming that using "he" is gender neutral and/or the correct pronoun to use when the gender is indeterminate.
However, my girlfriend (who has an English degree and a diploma in technical writing, although she's more of the researcher type) once told me that the way she was *always* taught was that the only correct way to refer to a gender indeterminate human in a document is to say "he or she" (and it has nothing to do with being PC either - she's about as PC as a smoking monkey in a leather thong). Also, IIRC, using past tense or "it" is incorrect and even s/he is frowned upon. All her style guides and textbooks back her up on this. A lot of the technical writers in her classes argued against this point but the instructors always backed her up.
Does anyone actually have a source on "he" being a gender neutral pronoun? What major style guide is this rule published in? (This isn't flamebait, I am honestly curious).
Here's the list:
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:)
1) Mahjong
2) Mahjong
22) Mahjong
23) Mahjong
24) Quake 3
25) Nethack
It's called SLAPP. Do a google and learn something new. Aren't there antiSLAPP laws in the US (none in Canada, AFAIK)...
Doc Bruce Banner,
Belted by gamma rays,
Turned into the Hulk.
Ain't he unglamo-rays!
Wreckin' the town
With the power of a bull,
Ain't no monster clown
Who is that lovable?
It's ever lovin' Hulk! HULK!! HULK!!
Good, less competition for the rest of us. The female on the right is pretty hot.
(Well, except I'm practically married to an intelligent hottie already:)
Incidently, I just found my new sig too! First engaging story in awhile...
This kind of stuff has been on the Internet for years but Disney seems to pretend it doesn't exist. Anyone ever hear of any lawsuits coming out of this sort of fan art/fiction (other than Star Trek, which has gotten a lot of press here :).
:)
(Note: I know the piece I am talking about is from the 60's, not implying it's unoriginal
Awwww, but I really want to. Please can I?
if the 2d graphics are well animated, they could require a hefty cpu. Not to mention MP3 and movie playback.
Many people have hardware issues with various copy protection schemes (we're not necessarily talking old or obscure hardware either, though I have no specific examples), and many copy protection schemes create longer load times or adversely affect gameplay (ie/ ultima IX, which was slow enough without the increased overhead of a useless copy protection scheme).
Since the copy protection schemes are easily cracked (and often removed by official patches eventually) I agree that they are pointless and should not be used.
Christ, we heard you the first fucking time. STFU already!
:)
(Yes, this was a flame, moderate freely
Well, not like that. Try again dude.
Yeah, but the GameCube looks kewl, and the controller rocks nads (I only broke down and bought a PS2 for some Final Fantasy goodness :)
Well duh! Cinnamon and raisins!
True enough, it deserves more credit than I gave it.
I was thinking Ultima VII is pretty good about the decent story + open ended game mechanics too...
Ah nutza, I screwed up the formatting. Considering all the troll mods I get you'd think i'd be a little more professional, eh?
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That's great, check out my stats:
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In all seriousness, that's pretty cool. I could never get into Nethack. I like my rpgs with plenty of story.
I wish someone would approach the complexity/freedom of Nethack and combine it with a strong story. Of course, freedom and story are often at odds in games (Torment has an awesome story but it's quite linear, Nethack is the complete opposite)
Can anyone recommend some games that combine these two ingredients nicely?
Heh, I submitted a story about this last week, but Ed said "no way dude"
NY Times article I submitted
Non NYT article:
Copyrights Expiring in Europe