To be fair, game over in the good old days (i.e. Contra) only meant losing a couple of hours. It sucked but people knew what they were getting into. Games these days are so long that most people don't want to torture themselves by replaying the last 20-30 hours to restore their characters, especially when they weren't expecting it.
The downside is that CNet is deliberately preying on users' ignorance and installing software they don't want as well.
I fully believe users should take responsibility for what they install on their systems by at least looking at what they're installing but that doesn't preclude companies from leaving that crap out in the first place.
Seems to me this only lets you know how wired a correspondent is. My acquaintance X answers me much faster than my good friend Y because all of X's mail goes to his phone and Y doesn't get to check their email until the evening when they get home.
The theory is that acquaintance X would answer everyone faster than acquaintance Y, not just you. Basically, regardless of how fast someone responds on average they're still going to have some people they respond to sooner and some they respond to later.
I DMed for a while and really enjoyed the "me versus everyone else" aspect of it. It was a constant cat and mouse game of me trying to keep a band of yahoos on track and them doing everything in their power to derail every part of my campaign. Some stuff the players did was just inspired (all but one person jumping into a bag of holding so the last person could carry them across a rickety bridge) and some was just plain stupid (casting fireball while trapped in a giant spider's web. It torched half the party...) but never knowing what was going to happen next was what made it so fun.
It's only foolish if you buy something without considering whether it it has value to you. Even if I had a quarter of a million burning a hole in my pocket it would still be foolish for me to buy such a watch because it doesn't have the features I want. It would be just as foolish for me to spend ten dollars on a Justin Bieber CD because that doesn't have any value to me either.
There's one thing about that watch that really bothers me: it's only water resistant to 25M (~82ft). If you're going to try selling me a watch that costs more than I make in a year I'd better be able to drop that fucking thing in a volcano before it breaks.
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To be fair, game over in the good old days (i.e. Contra) only meant losing a couple of hours. It sucked but people knew what they were getting into. Games these days are so long that most people don't want to torture themselves by replaying the last 20-30 hours to restore their characters, especially when they weren't expecting it.
Captain Tractor, a band who gets their namesake from that song, does an excellent cover of it as well.
I would say it like a lawyer. "Based on the information currently available to me I am reasonably certain there is no problem at this time."
Posting to undo mismoderation.
They're both riddled with bugs.
If you want to dress up a bit wear khakis. Most of your geeky shirts will probably go with them and they hide under-desk dust well.
How do you even pronounce an asterisk??
With great difficulty.
Not to worry, after a few weeks they stop talking and close their blinds instead.
I don't think that'd be a drinking game so much as an effective method of causing acute liver failure.
Maybe he's a LARPer who saw its reflection in his shield.
If you upload something to Facebook, assume Internet can see it...
Ah, you misspelled Internet.
I've taken the liberty of making the correction on your behalf.
Survival based on traits that were randomly mutated is adaptation.
Or rather, adaptation is "a change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment"; the reason doesn't matter.
The downside is that CNet is deliberately preying on users' ignorance and installing software they don't want as well.
I fully believe users should take responsibility for what they install on their systems by at least looking at what they're installing but that doesn't preclude companies from leaving that crap out in the first place.
Seems to me this only lets you know how wired a correspondent is. My acquaintance X answers me much faster than my good friend Y because all of X's mail goes to his phone and Y doesn't get to check their email until the evening when they get home.
The theory is that acquaintance X would answer everyone faster than acquaintance Y, not just you. Basically, regardless of how fast someone responds on average they're still going to have some people they respond to sooner and some they respond to later.
I DMed for a while and really enjoyed the "me versus everyone else" aspect of it. It was a constant cat and mouse game of me trying to keep a band of yahoos on track and them doing everything in their power to derail every part of my campaign. Some stuff the players did was just inspired (all but one person jumping into a bag of holding so the last person could carry them across a rickety bridge) and some was just plain stupid (casting fireball while trapped in a giant spider's web. It torched half the party...) but never knowing what was going to happen next was what made it so fun.
But, maybe I'm the only person who sometimes holds their e-reader with one hand.
ASCII porn certainly isn't what it used to be.
You pretty much just chew on it until you've managed to get all the honey out then spit out the blob of wax.
They'd probably just make you put it in your checked luggage. Problem solved!
It's only foolish if you can't afford it.
It's only foolish if you buy something without considering whether it it has value to you. Even if I had a quarter of a million burning a hole in my pocket it would still be foolish for me to buy such a watch because it doesn't have the features I want. It would be just as foolish for me to spend ten dollars on a Justin Bieber CD because that doesn't have any value to me either.
We're whalers on the Moon, we carry a harpoon. But there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing our whaling tune.
There's one thing about that watch that really bothers me: it's only water resistant to 25M (~82ft). If you're going to try selling me a watch that costs more than I make in a year I'd better be able to drop that fucking thing in a volcano before it breaks.
My solution is just to loudly yell every action as I take it.
Sorry about that. You're supposed to hear it in an American accent but the translation circuit's been a bit on the fritz.
Check out John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Basically, when you give a person some degree of anonymity and an audience, they tend to turn into an asshole.
It took two years to form a committee to figure out who to blame.