Do you believe the same about other behaviors like depression, paranoia, and schizophrenia?
I've lived with schizophrenics.
I think that sometimes what you are dealing with is as I described, its something they've acquired, an affectation or eccentricity.
Sometimes its not. I know that the schizophrenics I knew benefited greatly from their medication.
I also know that they would occasionally not take their medication 'for a laugh'.
They knew that failure to take their meds would get them into a state where they were seriously disturbing to those around them and they found some kind of entertainment in this.
Perhaps theres something similar going on with the aspies where theres a brain problem which they sometimes exacerbate for entertainment purposes.
I've been thinking about 'difficulty' in MMOs and I think it amounts to two different things, which probably relate to this.
Theres 'mathematical' difficulty. This is where the numbers on your MMO gear have to be above a certain threshold. If they are not, then the encounter is more difficult because you can (eg) get one-shotted (not enough health on your gear).
Theres 'performance' difficulty. This is where the encounter has events etc to which you must respond correctly.
I believe that in raiding in world of warcraft, the 'performance' difficulty has actually reduced as the game has progressed whereas 'mathematical' difficulty increases all the time (thats 'tier progression').
This has many effects on the game and its community. Its interesting to watch it develop.
When our grandparents were kids, if they got bullied, their own parents would respond by teaching them how to fight. Hell, even when I was a kid, my parents' reaction to bullying was usually along the lines of "...well kick his ass then - as long as you didn't start it, you won't be in trouble from us for finishing it".
I'm no grandparent, but when I was a kid and came home from school one day crying and with a lump on my head from some other kid throwing a stone at me, my grandmother took me out, hunted this kid down and set me on him. Yeah, she pulled me off him when she figured he'd had enough...
I never failed to stand up to a bully under my own steam ever again.
we need to get rid of the rest of the religions and we might just save humanity.
I'm not sure its religion, as such, thats the problem. I think its monotheism.
Monotheism creates a kind of mono-mania in people where they can only perceive one very specific way of looking at the world as being 'correct'.
Take Hinduism as a contrast. Hinduism contains within itself as much variation as you'd find between, say Christianity and Taoism.
And then look at the behaviors of these entities that Christians, Jews and Moslems call 'God'.
Judging these so-called 'Gods' by their behaviors as documented in their *own* 'holy' scriptures, I'd have to characterize Christianity, Islam and Judaism as devil-worship.
It reminds me the compressed file system I used to have on my old SLS Linux PC which had a small disk (1992 if memory serves me right).
Soft Landings from DOS bailouts!!! Yaaay!
I had a Windows 3.x PC on which I was coding some simple turbo pascal stuff to do pretty graphics.
This Windows PC didn't have a lot of disk so I was using Stacker (or some such disk compression thing).
One time one of my programs crashed. Just a simple graphics thing, but it crashed the PC, had to hit the reset button.
Erm... sadly the disk compression did not survive this.
A friend at university was *just* getting into this thing he called "Linux" and it ran on PCs, so I thought I'd give it a go. It was the SLS distro and he had a pile of 5.25" floppies. My PC had a 3.5" floppy. So I sat in the computer center for an afternoon copying disks...
And that was how I got into Linux; a soft landing from a DOS bailout:D
I never had to run disk compression under Linux though, never realised SLS supported that. Cool.
I would have thought that, in this instance, Steve Jobs would be the owner of OSX in perpetuity. No matter who possesses a copy of OSX, Steve Jobs owns it.
The God Emperor of Dune created a legion of ursine female warriors.
His idea was that men should be kept as far away from warfare as possible; they are simply not stable enough. If men get to dictate when you go to war, you will always be at war.
Women, especially ones that have had children, have an entirely different and more stable perspective on the world, more protective and nurturing than men. If women get to dictate when you go to war, you will rarely go to war.
Another means of entrenchment iPhone enjoys is the connection it has with a person's identity
You mean that everyones is pretty much the same as everyone elses?
No. The iPhone is for people who want to be like everyone else, not for people who want to have their own individuality.
Just think about it; pretty soon there will be something like 50 different Android OS phones.
People whose 'personalities' prefer a flip-phone can have an Android flip-phone.
Those that prefer a tablet phone can get an Android tablet phone.
Prefer a phone with a slide-out keyboard? You can get an Android phone.
And so on.
What choice do you have with an iPhone? Oh thats right. An iPhone.
Theres more potential for expression of your individuality through Android OS phones than through the rather monolithic and, dare I say boring, iphone.
In modern warfare, the enemy hides behind civilians
In most warfare, in most times, the enemy hides behind civilians.
The enemy isn't the soldiers in the field;
The enemy is the man giving the orders and the political directives and that enemy is almost never on the field of battle but hiding behind their lines sheltering among their own civilians.
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He could be from China, Russia, or France. We Americans aren't the only ones that are willing to use deadly force to protect our people.
Of the 4 nations listed (including USA) only Russia even comes close to being as belligerent as the USA, and its a LONG way behind.
The USA is *the* most warlike country in the world today; most likely to start wars, most likely to randomly attack other nations.
Start figuring out what ports these ships are using and then bomb the [redacted] out of the ports
tell the nations that own the ports if they don't want to be NEXT then they should start dealing with the pirates themselves.
I'm going to have a wild stab in the dark here...
You are from USA?
You really believe that in a democracy it is the elected government that ultimately wields power?
How do you think that government got elected? You think that if the media corporations were against them, they'd stand a chance of being elected?
Next you will be saying that advertising doesn't work.
hypochondriacs and sociopaths
This.
Affectation means it's put on - not real.
Not at all.
Just because its put on, doesn't mean that its not real behavior.
Yep, totally the tooth fairy theory.
Do you believe the same about other behaviors like depression, paranoia, and schizophrenia?
I've lived with schizophrenics.
I think that sometimes what you are dealing with is as I described, its something they've acquired, an affectation or eccentricity.
Sometimes its not. I know that the schizophrenics I knew benefited greatly from their medication.
I also know that they would occasionally not take their medication 'for a laugh'.
They knew that failure to take their meds would get them into a state where they were seriously disturbing to those around them and they found some kind of entertainment in this.
Perhaps theres something similar going on with the aspies where theres a brain problem which they sometimes exacerbate for entertainment purposes.
20% - previous history with game franchise or developer
For me that'd be much more like 80%
Eg; I'll NEVER EVER EVER buy a Funcom game ever again.
No need to get so judgmental.
No I'll be as judgemental as I like.
I don't believe the brain-wiring problem thing, not for a moment; its an affectation. An eccentricity.
That was an interesting read.
I've been thinking about 'difficulty' in MMOs and I think it amounts to two different things, which probably relate to this.
Theres 'mathematical' difficulty. This is where the numbers on your MMO gear have to be above a certain threshold. If they are not, then the encounter is more difficult because you can (eg) get one-shotted (not enough health on your gear).
Theres 'performance' difficulty. This is where the encounter has events etc to which you must respond correctly.
I believe that in raiding in world of warcraft, the 'performance' difficulty has actually reduced as the game has progressed whereas 'mathematical' difficulty increases all the time (thats 'tier progression').
This has many effects on the game and its community. Its interesting to watch it develop.
Have you ever met anyone on the autistic spectrum?
I *lived* with someone with aspergers.
It taught me that someone can be a total and utter CUNT without actually being malicious about it.
NEVER AGAIN. Never a-fucking-gain would I want to live with someone with the aspergers affectation.
Never start a fight, but always finish it.
Paraphrased a little from the Koran:
"And fight them until persecution is no more... But if they stop, let there be no more war, for god never loves the starter of wars"
When our grandparents were kids, if they got bullied, their own parents would respond by teaching them how to fight. Hell, even when I was a kid, my parents' reaction to bullying was usually along the lines of "...well kick his ass then - as long as you didn't start it, you won't be in trouble from us for finishing it".
I'm no grandparent, but when I was a kid and came home from school one day crying and with a lump on my head from some other kid throwing a stone at me, my grandmother took me out, hunted this kid down and set me on him. Yeah, she pulled me off him when she figured he'd had enough...
I never failed to stand up to a bully under my own steam ever again.
we need to get rid of the rest of the religions and we might just save humanity.
I'm not sure its religion, as such, thats the problem. I think its monotheism.
Monotheism creates a kind of mono-mania in people where they can only perceive one very specific way of looking at the world as being 'correct'.
Take Hinduism as a contrast. Hinduism contains within itself as much variation as you'd find between, say Christianity and Taoism.
And then look at the behaviors of these entities that Christians, Jews and Moslems call 'God'.
Judging these so-called 'Gods' by their behaviors as documented in their *own* 'holy' scriptures, I'd have to characterize Christianity, Islam and Judaism as devil-worship.
If you weren't almost certainly in the USA, I'd say "Can I come work for you?"
Of those that I've used personally - Soviet, Euro, Australian/NZ, and North American
In Soviet Russia, Power plugs YOU!
and British plugs never have any problems due to misuse?
I'm not sure you'd call it a *problem* due to 'misuse', but British plugs make more effective weapons than most other nations plugs.
Swinging one of those things on a cable at someones head... yeah ok, 'misuse' but not so likely to harm the user.
It reminds me the compressed file system I used to have on my old SLS Linux PC which had a small disk (1992 if memory serves me right).
Soft Landings from DOS bailouts!!! Yaaay!
I had a Windows 3.x PC on which I was coding some simple turbo pascal stuff to do pretty graphics.
This Windows PC didn't have a lot of disk so I was using Stacker (or some such disk compression thing).
One time one of my programs crashed. Just a simple graphics thing, but it crashed the PC, had to hit the reset button.
Erm... sadly the disk compression did not survive this.
A friend at university was *just* getting into this thing he called "Linux" and it ran on PCs, so I thought I'd give it a go. It was the SLS distro and he had a pile of 5.25" floppies. My PC had a 3.5" floppy. So I sat in the computer center for an afternoon copying disks...
And that was how I got into Linux; a soft landing from a DOS bailout :D
I never had to run disk compression under Linux though, never realised SLS supported that. Cool.
I would have thought that, in this instance, Steve Jobs would be the owner of OSX in perpetuity. No matter who possesses a copy of OSX, Steve Jobs owns it.
Just like he owns the iphone in your pocket.
Just like he owns the mac mini on your desktop.
Apparently he is back, as boring and sheepish as ever...
The God Emperor of Dune created a legion of ursine female warriors.
His idea was that men should be kept as far away from warfare as possible; they are simply not stable enough. If men get to dictate when you go to war, you will always be at war.
Women, especially ones that have had children, have an entirely different and more stable perspective on the world, more protective and nurturing than men. If women get to dictate when you go to war, you will rarely go to war.
Another means of entrenchment iPhone enjoys is the connection it has with a person's identity
You mean that everyones is pretty much the same as everyone elses?
No. The iPhone is for people who want to be like everyone else, not for people who want to have their own individuality.
Just think about it; pretty soon there will be something like 50 different Android OS phones.
People whose 'personalities' prefer a flip-phone can have an Android flip-phone.
Those that prefer a tablet phone can get an Android tablet phone.
Prefer a phone with a slide-out keyboard? You can get an Android phone.
And so on.
What choice do you have with an iPhone? Oh thats right. An iPhone.
Theres more potential for expression of your individuality through Android OS phones than through the rather monolithic and, dare I say boring, iphone.
In modern warfare, the enemy hides behind civilians
In most warfare, in most times, the enemy hides behind civilians.
The enemy isn't the soldiers in the field;
The enemy is the man giving the orders and the political directives and that enemy is almost never on the field of battle but hiding behind their lines sheltering among their own civilians.
Geeze! Do you want them to ban all batteries?
I'd like them to ban glass as well.
Did you know that Al Qaida are training their terrorists in flint knapping these days???
They can make a weapon out of any piece of glass!!!!!
There is no way to justify writing 25800 as 25.800. None.
Unless you are European.
In many European nations '.' and ',' in decimal notation are used in the reverse to the English speaking world.
Ie '25.800,123' to, say, a Frenchman, would mean the same as '25,800.123' to an American.
You get used to it.