Attract more buyers of the books (if not more players).
It's probably painful to you who enjoyed 2nd and 3rd edition rules, but they are not comparable to 1ed rules, or even to the original paperback books of the 1970s. Back then, and if you read early issues of the Dragon you can feel this, there was intense interest in applying human imagination to the gameplay. The GM was encouraged by the rules to make up expedients to arbitrate particular situations, and to write their own adventures. The concept of a 'module' was invented largely as a cash flow device by the management of TSR.
2ed and 3ed are a lot of hand holding and substituting hard and fast rules for what used to be the domain of the GM/DM to decide. Associated with this is an increase in game complexity (which produces more books!). The game suffered, frankly, and it's no wonder that it attracts fewer rather than more players as time goes on.
This 4ed release (explain to me who exactly is 'excited' about this, according to TFA?) unquestionably will hasten the process with inclusion of crappy MMORPG concepts, if the other posters here are right. Aggro? Please.
Find some circa 1ed material, GM it as the rulebooks will suggest (they are small by today's standards) and see if it isn't a better game when reduced to its basics.
You're full of shit first because you claim that using the blues as source material for new music is somehow 'ripping someone off'. Shows you just have an axe to grind. Are you going to say the same thing about the Stones? How about Clapton/Cream/musical chairs band? How about Elvis? How about every blues-playing 60's band? They were 'ripping off' old artists in the same way, if that's what you're going to term it. But by your standards people should stop playing blues because there's nothing that's not been done before. That's ludicrous, by the way.
You're also full of shit because if the compositions of the original authors were so great, they would have had the same success that Zeppelin had. Well guess what, they all died drunk in cheap hotels partially because their records didn't sell. If you could get them into a recording studio in the first place, that is, because they were hard to drag away from the bars and floozies (and heroin in some cases). The Crossroads thing is a myth born of a real phenomenon, the early death of many blues musicians. Bottom line, their music was fringe in their lifetimes and didn't sell. The ones that survived into the 60s had more success, but only marginally so.
Lastly, you're full of shit because no one accused Robert Johnson - for example - of particularly being original. The truth is, no one really knows what the hell was his composition and what he borrowed from other fellow musicians who he learned from or played in proximity to. Interchange and borrowing were just as commonplace then as now. So is he a thief too now?
Obviously Zeppelin added something to the mix that others didn't have. A sound, a mystique, a reputation for fucking every woman that came within 10 yards of them - whatever. They had it, the others didn't. But it's all the blues.
Anyway, you can shove your hatred right up your ass. You're full of shit, and the fact that your post is currently modded informative is just indicative of the ignorance of the mods.
How about just believing government does not do good things for us, and the most incompetent possible administration is the best overall for me. It gets less done.
It's not entirely a myth. Guderian mentioned it in his book, "Panzer Leader", if I remember correctly. His armor was halted by lack of fuel, and was thrown back by some Lancers attacking. Also, the true encounter in question did happen, it just wasn't "Lancers charging tanks". It was more like "Lancers fleeing armored cars and got gunned down and misinterpreted as charging". For all we know, the charging did happen during the attack on Guderian. It's an oversimplification if anything, the statement that "Polish Lancers charged tanks".
What happened with Iran/Contra was that Congress prevented the expenditure of US funds directly to support insurgents in Nicaragua. Leaving out my personal view of this being a. an intrusion onto Presidential powers and b. being stupid because the Sandinistas were actively supporting insurgencies in Costa Rica, Honduras and El Salvador, what Ollie North and company were doing was supplying spare parts for US-built weapons that had been given to Iran during the Shah's regime - mostly aircraft such as the F-14 which required US help to maintain. This material was transferred via an Israeli proxy. The proceeds from that were used to fund the Contras.
Your mistake was 'us buying Iranian weapons' which wasn't what happened. We used the Iranians as a money laundering service fundamentally to circumvent Congress.
I had better luck with mine with the following methodology:
1: disassemble using a 7/32 long stem nut driver. You'll pay a few bucks for this but it's worth it. 2: put the upper and lower key caps, and shell in the dishwasher. 3: clean the base that the mechanical key switches are mounted on using alcohol + q-tips 4: Reassemble when the stuff is all dry.
Quick, easy, works like a charm, no risk of damage to the keyboard itself.
Communism didn't work. Capitalism does. People are indeed motivated by selfishness. Any other view of the world ignores the true nature of humanity and it's ability to screw the other guy.
Yeah, there's climate change. No, i'm not going to do anything actively different about it. The earth will survive, and ultimately we'll find out that our activities had little or nothing to do with the current climate issues. Same as we had nothing to do with the cold snap that dominated the middle of the last century.
For all the frothing at the mouth about it, humanity is going to end up where it was going anyway. New energy sources were a foregone conclusion as early as 1950. It's taken this long to get things even close to economically competitive. The whinging and complaining about capitalism will come to nothing in the end, as it is the only system that is proven to work in real life.
And yes, the current crap is all politics. Idealists are being taken for a ride. Literally.
They get a lot out of global warming. Their theories of how humans behave are discredited, but this is one surefire way to kick capitalism in the shins.
You're casting a blind eye to that angle, entirely. You are also failing to understand what Vaclav Klaus is trying to accomplish here. He's discrediting scientific consensus in the same way you would discredit an opposition candidate. It's mud slinging. And it's how politics really works, muddying up your opponent.
Vaclav Klaus said circa 1991, "Ecology is the whipped cream on a piece of cake". That's an actual quote (Google it). I happen to agree with him, but i'm pointing this out so that you will understand that he is an ideologue on this issue. His agenda is clear, as is the agenda of the ex-Communists who have a significant representation in the environmental movement.
The (up higher in the thread) poster who said this was all politics is quite right.
"Because he's a republican" - please, don't make me laugh.
Clinton was raping half of the South with law enforcement assistance during the 1980s and early 90s, and about the only coverage it got was on talk radio, even when the lawsuits were flying. They had to impeach the bastard to even get the media to notice.
But not better than Nixon's books. Or Reagan's pre-Presidency newspaper columns. I'm not a huge fan of Nixon's post-Presidency writings either but at least the guy wasn't stupid. He just wasn't an excellent writer.
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Attract more buyers of the books (if not more players).
It's probably painful to you who enjoyed 2nd and 3rd edition rules, but they are not comparable to 1ed rules, or even to the original paperback books of the 1970s. Back then, and if you read early issues of the Dragon you can feel this, there was intense interest in applying human imagination to the gameplay. The GM was encouraged by the rules to make up expedients to arbitrate particular situations, and to write their own adventures. The concept of a 'module' was invented largely as a cash flow device by the management of TSR.
2ed and 3ed are a lot of hand holding and substituting hard and fast rules for what used to be the domain of the GM/DM to decide. Associated with this is an increase in game complexity (which produces more books!). The game suffered, frankly, and it's no wonder that it attracts fewer rather than more players as time goes on.
This 4ed release (explain to me who exactly is 'excited' about this, according to TFA?) unquestionably will hasten the process with inclusion of crappy MMORPG concepts, if the other posters here are right. Aggro? Please.
Find some circa 1ed material, GM it as the rulebooks will suggest (they are small by today's standards) and see if it isn't a better game when reduced to its basics.
You're full of shit first because you claim that using the blues as source material for new music is somehow 'ripping someone off'. Shows you just have an axe to grind. Are you going to say the same thing about the Stones? How about Clapton/Cream/musical chairs band? How about Elvis? How about every blues-playing 60's band? They were 'ripping off' old artists in the same way, if that's what you're going to term it. But by your standards people should stop playing blues because there's nothing that's not been done before. That's ludicrous, by the way.
You're also full of shit because if the compositions of the original authors were so great, they would have had the same success that Zeppelin had. Well guess what, they all died drunk in cheap hotels partially because their records didn't sell. If you could get them into a recording studio in the first place, that is, because they were hard to drag away from the bars and floozies (and heroin in some cases). The Crossroads thing is a myth born of a real phenomenon, the early death of many blues musicians. Bottom line, their music was fringe in their lifetimes and didn't sell. The ones that survived into the 60s had more success, but only marginally so.
Lastly, you're full of shit because no one accused Robert Johnson - for example - of particularly being original. The truth is, no one really knows what the hell was his composition and what he borrowed from other fellow musicians who he learned from or played in proximity to. Interchange and borrowing were just as commonplace then as now. So is he a thief too now?
Obviously Zeppelin added something to the mix that others didn't have. A sound, a mystique, a reputation for fucking every woman that came within 10 yards of them - whatever. They had it, the others didn't. But it's all the blues.
Anyway, you can shove your hatred right up your ass. You're full of shit, and the fact that your post is currently modded informative is just indicative of the ignorance of the mods.
How about just believing government does not do good things for us, and the most incompetent possible administration is the best overall for me. It gets less done.
Did it occur to you that some of us voted for him *precisely* for that reason?
It's not entirely a myth. Guderian mentioned it in his book, "Panzer Leader", if I remember correctly. His armor was halted by lack of fuel, and was thrown back by some Lancers attacking. Also, the true encounter in question did happen, it just wasn't "Lancers charging tanks". It was more like "Lancers fleeing armored cars and got gunned down and misinterpreted as charging". For all we know, the charging did happen during the attack on Guderian. It's an oversimplification if anything, the statement that "Polish Lancers charged tanks".
When the SE/30 was released Jobs was not in charge. That was Sculley's reign.
a. You don't need a precise peer to be satisfied with a woman.
b. Always keep someone around to bone even if you aren't going to marry her.
Which is why they fuck over everyone else.
WoW has seriously lost its cool factor, and a lot of people won't be going back no matter what they put in the next expansion.
Why aren't they ready with a successor? It's now 3 years in...
I fly through Canada when possible.
A customs check is annoying but less annoying than dealing with US airlines.
Very funny but...
What happened with Iran/Contra was that Congress prevented the expenditure of US funds directly to support insurgents in Nicaragua. Leaving out my personal view of this being a. an intrusion onto Presidential powers and b. being stupid because the Sandinistas were actively supporting insurgencies in Costa Rica, Honduras and El Salvador, what Ollie North and company were doing was supplying spare parts for US-built weapons that had been given to Iran during the Shah's regime - mostly aircraft such as the F-14 which required US help to maintain. This material was transferred via an Israeli proxy. The proceeds from that were used to fund the Contras.
Your mistake was 'us buying Iranian weapons' which wasn't what happened. We used the Iranians as a money laundering service fundamentally to circumvent Congress.
Logically, the end result of this is another 1984-style video game crash.
It couldn't come soon enough.
I had better luck with mine with the following methodology:
1: disassemble using a 7/32 long stem nut driver. You'll pay a few bucks for this but it's worth it.
2: put the upper and lower key caps, and shell in the dishwasher.
3: clean the base that the mechanical key switches are mounted on using alcohol + q-tips
4: Reassemble when the stuff is all dry.
Quick, easy, works like a charm, no risk of damage to the keyboard itself.
Communism didn't work. Capitalism does. People are indeed motivated by selfishness. Any other view of the world ignores the true nature of humanity and it's ability to screw the other guy.
Yeah, there's climate change. No, i'm not going to do anything actively different about it. The earth will survive, and ultimately we'll find out that our activities had little or nothing to do with the current climate issues. Same as we had nothing to do with the cold snap that dominated the middle of the last century.
For all the frothing at the mouth about it, humanity is going to end up where it was going anyway. New energy sources were a foregone conclusion as early as 1950. It's taken this long to get things even close to economically competitive. The whinging and complaining about capitalism will come to nothing in the end, as it is the only system that is proven to work in real life.
And yes, the current crap is all politics. Idealists are being taken for a ride. Literally.
They get a lot out of global warming. Their theories of how humans behave are discredited, but this is one surefire way to kick capitalism in the shins.
You're casting a blind eye to that angle, entirely. You are also failing to understand what Vaclav Klaus is trying to accomplish here. He's discrediting scientific consensus in the same way you would discredit an opposition candidate. It's mud slinging. And it's how politics really works, muddying up your opponent.
Vaclav Klaus said circa 1991, "Ecology is the whipped cream on a piece of cake". That's an actual quote (Google it). I happen to agree with him, but i'm pointing this out so that you will understand that he is an ideologue on this issue. His agenda is clear, as is the agenda of the ex-Communists who have a significant representation in the environmental movement.
The (up higher in the thread) poster who said this was all politics is quite right.
emerge new-tires, then wait till the race is over.
We'd need a lot more cars rigged together with distcc to have a chance!
The document is FOUO and should never have been released to the public, but FOUO is not classified. Read more on FOUO here.
"Because he's a republican" - please, don't make me laugh.
Clinton was raping half of the South with law enforcement assistance during the 1980s and early 90s, and about the only coverage it got was on talk radio, even when the lawsuits were flying. They had to impeach the bastard to even get the media to notice.
You are right.
But not better than Nixon's books. Or Reagan's pre-Presidency newspaper columns. I'm not a huge fan of Nixon's post-Presidency writings either but at least the guy wasn't stupid. He just wasn't an excellent writer.
If you read some of his post-Presidency books, you'd not think him so intelligent. Puerile is being generous.
Is it the fate of those who formulated quantum mechanics to have their work subsumed by Einstein because that is the only name reporters can remember?
I have no idea why you'd even get prompted like that. Must be just you.
He's saying that the settlement from his client's countersuit would be somewhere between $500k and say $1.5 mil.
He's being cute about it.
Even in 1987 it might well have run you close to $15,000. At least it was near that when I bought my first XT clone.