Huh? Which city have you been to where the ambient light pollution is brighter than the moon?
He probably lives in LA, where it's not a matter of the light pollution being brighter than the moon, but of the moon not being bright enough to penetrate the smog. Ask a 1st Grader what color the sky is, and they'll enthusiastically answer "brown!"
Just as they did with one of my most cherished franchises, HoMM. I'm not touching any game Ubisoft "improved".
Yeah last HOMM I played was 3 (Loki Games linux port, can i get a hell yeah?!) and I've heard nothing but bad things about the later ones.
I watched the trailers for Beyond Good and Evil; good, original artwork. While I am not their target audience, that game seemed well done.
Yeah, the target audience is people who like Zelda-esque adventure games, and they freaking knocked that one out of the park. It's such a shame the game was underexposed and didn't sell well.
I guess the take away is that ubisoft can make both good games and bad games. I'm certainly not going to rush out and buy anything they make anymore (unless they ever complete Beyond Good and Evil 2).
If the typical Wii user is like me, Ubisoft should keep the hell out of it. Ubisoft wouldn't know a fun game if it hit them in the collective head.
Ubisoft made Beyond Good and Evil and the first (of the modern) Prince of Persia. That earns them a lot of slack from me. Because those games were fun as hell (if, you know, burning torture was fun).
Brand recognition plays a major part in that, the truth is that much of the value in Nintendo comes from the name of Shigeru Miyamoto whether he designed the game or not. What could Shigeru do with his games if he had access to the power of the PS3? Had Shigeru designed his games for the PS3 a Wii version would indeed be a watered down version too.
Shigeru Miyamoto was a driving force behind the development of the Wii. He's not just a star game producer anymore, he's an actual bigwig in the corporate structure and has a lot of say in the direction the company goes. In a very real sense, the Wii is a game console tailored to what Miyamoto wanted to do with games.
So the answer to the question "What could Shigeru do with his games if he had access to the power of the PS3?" is "None of the things he wanted to do, which is why they didn't make a console like that."
I mean, feel free to disagree with Miyamoto as to what console Miyamoto could make the best games for, but I know who I'm going to listen to in that regard.
In other words both positions are not mutually exclusive, Nintendo games are good AND the Wii provides a watered down game experience.
Yeah, see, in another post I said that power can be a good thing for games to use to explore things that require that power. But when you've got a game that was designed for a machine with different parameters and within those parameters is a good game, then about the only thing more power will automatically get you is more shinies. Shinies are nice and all, but I don't believe that having hypothetically fewer shinies than it could have means it's "watered down".
In other words, sure, Prince of Persia designed for PS3 and ported to Wii would have to be 'watered down' compared to the original. On the other hand Metroid Prime Corruption designed for Wii and ported to the PS3 would be watered down too.
Yeah. I used to be able to kinda tolerate dual-analog controls for fps despite their heinous inferiority to keyboard+mouse, simply because if you wanted an fps on a console, that was the only way to do it. Having played FPS on the Wii, that has now set a minimum standard for FPS controls that dual analog falls far short of. I tried playing Halo 3, nice game but the controls drove me batty. Fifteen school children and one hamster died on that day.
And, idiot, the word "pandemic" doesn't ACTUALLY mean anything--it's a vague and recently-invented word that epidemiologists
Wrong on all counts, 'vance.
And, even in that purely artificial sense, I am using it correctly (or maybe you're too stupid to know that the Black Death also spread to the Middle East and Asia?).
And by artificial you mean the actual sense, not whatever it meant in your head. And yes, you did accidentally use the word correctly to describe the Black Death, though your insistence on saying Black Death was a REAL pandemic and this flu isn't shows that you believed the word to mean something it does not.
Games are games, and people (should) be playing them for the enjoyment and competition. Maybe we should ask the question about some other consoles games that rely so much on graphics that the point of the game is lost and the entertainment factor is lost. Is this a watered down games experience?
Certainly when graphics are used in place of figuring out how to make the game fun or unique, sure.
But good graphics, long view distances yielding open worlds (that have good graphics at the same time), and good AI (which I'm equating with complex and cpu-intensive, but that's not a bad assumption with AI), are good things to have in a good game.
Just like motion controls can be either hacked-on waggle designed to cash in on the Wii, or they can be immersive and fun in ways the other consoles can't provide.
I'm not going to come out either way, because I think pointing the finger in either direction is silly. So they can't make a Prince of Persia game for the Wii that matches their vision. That's fine, more power (heh) to them as far as making that vision a reality. On the other hand, nobody can make an FPS for those other consoles that doesn't make me want to go an a real-life killing spree. They're different and neither is inherently bad. The Wii has enough power to make good games (unless you think no good games existed prior to the release of the Xbox360), and the controller is a great new way to play games, while on the other hand the other consoles have more power to explore games that really do need more power.
So yeah, games are games, and having *gasp* different games on different systems that do different things is not a bad thing.
That was a cool trick, but not exactly a "place you're not supposed to go" (and something just about every avid player found on their own, I'd tried turtle-hopping-for-one-ups just about everywhere, and there are several places you can do it though none are as easy and quick to overflow the life counter as 3-1). Now the Minus World on the other hand was a place you definitely weren't supposed to go. I didn't find that on my own. It was kinda neat, though ultimately pointless. Checking out the wiki article on it, I wish I'd had the Super Famicon version since its version of the glitch sounds more interesting (and possible to exit without hitting reset).
Therefore, the total probability of N such assumptions being incorrect is less than that of M such assumptions, if N is less than M.
You can't compare two non-zero qualitative probabilities in that way;
Sure you can, as long as you consider "less" to be a fuzzy measurement as well. You raise your thumb, eyeball the probabilities, and make an educated guess as to which truly involves more assumption than the other.
Though going back to the original post we're talking about, the words "statistically rigorous" strongly suggests a non-qualitative thrust. Perhaps unintended, perhaps not, but it's a basis for what you're saying.
Either way, fact remains, your usage of Occam's Razor was wrong-er.;)
Our standard model is just in and of itself an assumption...... We really know very little and assume a great deal about everything. Anyone who tells you otherwise knows even less.
Assumption... backed with as much raw data as just about any theory in history. And more importantly, we're constantly trying to find more facts to either reinforce or disprove (and subsequently improve) our model, and removing assumptions, like the assumption that space and the laws of physics are basically the same everywhere. Which is why you are BUZZZZZZ WRONG AND A MORON BECAUSE THE GP WAS EXACTLY CORRECT IDIOT-TARD.
Sorry for that, but I really hate the "BZZZT! WRONG!" thing, especially when it's based on not even coming close to being right because you didn't even understand what was said.
Going with an English sport instead? Are you nuts?
I'm betting the French would dispute that just on principle. Sure a lot of the modern rules were made in England, but it dates back to well before them, and FIFA is a French acronym so there you have it!
It's not innovative. It's the same crappy "hybrid" concept that every other auto maker has tried to push.
No it isn't all that innovative, but it's not the same as other hybrids at all. As far as I know, it's the only in-line hybrid for consumer use that's in the pipe. And that makes a big difference. First, you can make your daily commute on pure electric power. Second, since the only function of the gas engine is to charge the batteries, not provide power to the wheels, this means that it can be smaller, more efficient, and optimized to run at a fixed RPM which is highly advantageous for an ICE.
40 miles on pure electricity, with a gas tank that extends your range to as far as your typical car, gives you something that no other hybrid or EV can give you. Neither the Model S nor the Roadster have the range of a gas car, and the Prius won't get you out of your neighborhood before it starts burning gas. If, like me, your usage model is short daily commutes and trips across town with occasional thousand-plus mile road trips, then this is an exceptional model and I'm pretty excited about it just from the design standpoint.
And at the nearly $40,000 price point, why bother buying it?
Now THAT is a big problem. They really do need to get the price down, or it's just not going to look very appealing. I sure won't jump on the bandwagon at that price.
I'd imagine one of the goals of the battery research facility would be to find ways to drive the price of batteries (the biggest cost) down.
The Model S doesn't even have a gasoline engine, goes over 7 times farther than the Volt on a single charge, can go from 0 to 60 in under 6 seconds, and looks a hell of a lot better than the Volt IMO.
7 times further, as in a measly 300 miles, then you have to stop and find a plug and wait 45 minutes. Which don't get me wrong is cool and very good for a wide range of uses, but it's not going to let you go on road trips (even short ones like to the coast from where I live, forget driving back to visit family). That's why the ICE-as-range-extension concept of the Volt is novel -- it basically makes the Volt a drop-in replacement for everything you used your car for today, except most of the time you don't need to use any gas. Batteries may eventually let you do that, but not soon.
And yeah, electric motors have crap-loads of torque at 0 rpm, so they have rockin' 0-60 times. I don't think Chevy has released any performance specs on the Volt, but I'd be surprised if it was a slouch in the quarter mile even if the Model S beats it. Models S looks better too, I give you that.
If GM uses this new laboratory to produce cars with no gasoline engine (all electric), I'm on board.
Not me. It simply wouldn't work for things I use my car for, or expect to be able to use it for. Like, drive to a camp ground 150 miles away with no electricity, and be certain that I'll be able to get back home.
Awesome! Then all we need to do is devise a system whereby these batteries are loaded into a cylinder, compressed, exploded, and the force of the explosion used to drive the cylinder piston and perform the other stages of the process in the other cylinders. Then we could build a bunch of battery stations where you go to fill up your batter tank with fresh batteries. The earth is saved!
They were in a catch-22 because the government wouldn't confirm that the plaintiffs had been wiretapped, refusing subpoenas from the plaintiffs on national security grounds, and the court wouldn't give the plaintiffs standing unless they could prove it had happened to them.
Thank goodness for the incompetence of the government, then, since the geniuses accidentally delivered transcripts of tapped phone calls to the group they had been tapping. LOL.
The closest we get is a right to trial by jury, but that only applies in criminal proceedings.
Presumption of innocence is inherent in the burden of proof, which even for a civil trial is still the preponderance of evidence. If the prosecution/plaintiff can't present any evidence that you are guilty/at fault then there's no reason for you to present evidence that you are innocent, because that is in fact the assumption barring evidence to the contrary.
So yeah. Presumption of innocence is indeed part of our system.
I just figured the law was rejected because the French don't like an analogy to an American sport. Instead they will replace the "three strikes and you're out" law with a "one goal on each side and then you have a shootout" law.
It's not fool proof, but it does throw them off for a while. The RP server I'm on in WoW is a really great place but over time those kinds of people you describe seem to show up more often then they used to.
I worried that this was exactly what was happening, I started to think there was no difference. So i logged on to the non-rp server I'd first rolled on when I first started playing WoW. It took about ten seconds to realize that the difference was still night-and-day.
Kinda like that super-hot day where I'd shut myself in my room with my window unit AC. I turned it off, and in a while it was very hot and I was sweaty, so I figured the temperatures were equalized and i should go to the kitchen to get a drink. The second I opened the bedroom door I was blasted by hot air way beyond what was in the room. I'd just gotten used to the cold, so the kinda-hot seemed a lot hotter than it really was. Same deal with Internet Fuckwads.:)
Actually it's very simple you have a flat sheet of plastic or waterproof material, then hang it up so that one corner is sloping down to some sort of collection media (ie a bottle) and then wait for the hopefully cool night.
This is also a method by which you can recycle your own urine (just like Freemen! Or astronauts!) by peeing in a wide hole, putting the collection bucket in the middle, and the plastic over the hole with a rock in the middle. Water from urine evaporates, condenses on plastic, there ya go.
The most disconcerting reality checks came in groups where based on the player's chat and performance I'm -positive- they're a kid...Then they say they need to go afk "cuz my kid's crying."
The tragedy of teenage pregnancy strikes reaches even into the online world!
But seriously, it's funny how some of my best WoW-only friends have been actually kids in the 10-15 range. Sure they think Chuck Norris jokes are hilarious no matter how many times you spam chat with them, but otherwise were reasonably intelligent, polite, and generally not a demonstration of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory like so many "adults" prove to be.
BTW, in my experience, the best way to get rid of stupid isn't with age-restricted servers/services, but by simply putting the initials "RP" after the server name. It's exactly the kind of 30-year-old man-child-idiot who thinks they're too cool for an RP server who you want to exclude, and they do it all by themselves!
If you look at the reasoning in the post I replied to, you see that Ginger Unicorn is trying to justify Occam's Razor as being quantitative:
>> since each extra assumption has a non zero chance of being wrong
And you don't believe that statement can be understood in a qualitative way, such as "Extra assumptions increase the chance one of them is wrong"? "Non-zero" indicating that some chance exists is hardly a quantitative measure of probability.
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I'm still surprised, though, that thus far down the discussion, no one has managed to observe that this must have been a kilonova.
Well "super" isn't an SI prefix, so it doesn't match.
Since this is better than a regular nova, but not as cool as a supernova, I hereby suggest "neatonova".
Huh? Which city have you been to where the ambient light pollution is brighter than the moon?
He probably lives in LA, where it's not a matter of the light pollution being brighter than the moon, but of the moon not being bright enough to penetrate the smog. Ask a 1st Grader what color the sky is, and they'll enthusiastically answer "brown!"
Why would you assume they actually moderated in the first place, rather than simply claimed that they did in order to make Teh Funny?
Just as they did with one of my most cherished franchises, HoMM. I'm not touching any game Ubisoft "improved".
Yeah last HOMM I played was 3 (Loki Games linux port, can i get a hell yeah?!) and I've heard nothing but bad things about the later ones.
I watched the trailers for Beyond Good and Evil; good, original artwork. While I am not their target audience, that game seemed well done.
Yeah, the target audience is people who like Zelda-esque adventure games, and they freaking knocked that one out of the park. It's such a shame the game was underexposed and didn't sell well.
I guess the take away is that ubisoft can make both good games and bad games. I'm certainly not going to rush out and buy anything they make anymore (unless they ever complete Beyond Good and Evil 2).
If the typical Wii user is like me, Ubisoft should keep the hell out of it. Ubisoft wouldn't know a fun game if it hit them in the collective head.
Ubisoft made Beyond Good and Evil and the first (of the modern) Prince of Persia. That earns them a lot of slack from me. Because those games were fun as hell (if, you know, burning torture was fun).
Brand recognition plays a major part in that, the truth is that much of the value in Nintendo comes from the name of Shigeru Miyamoto whether he designed the game or not. What could Shigeru do with his games if he had access to the power of the PS3? Had Shigeru designed his games for the PS3 a Wii version would indeed be a watered down version too.
Shigeru Miyamoto was a driving force behind the development of the Wii. He's not just a star game producer anymore, he's an actual bigwig in the corporate structure and has a lot of say in the direction the company goes. In a very real sense, the Wii is a game console tailored to what Miyamoto wanted to do with games.
So the answer to the question "What could Shigeru do with his games if he had access to the power of the PS3?" is "None of the things he wanted to do, which is why they didn't make a console like that."
I mean, feel free to disagree with Miyamoto as to what console Miyamoto could make the best games for, but I know who I'm going to listen to in that regard.
In other words both positions are not mutually exclusive, Nintendo games are good AND the Wii provides a watered down game experience.
Yeah, see, in another post I said that power can be a good thing for games to use to explore things that require that power. But when you've got a game that was designed for a machine with different parameters and within those parameters is a good game, then about the only thing more power will automatically get you is more shinies. Shinies are nice and all, but I don't believe that having hypothetically fewer shinies than it could have means it's "watered down".
In other words, sure, Prince of Persia designed for PS3 and ported to Wii would have to be 'watered down' compared to the original. On the other hand Metroid Prime Corruption designed for Wii and ported to the PS3 would be watered down too.
Yeah. I used to be able to kinda tolerate dual-analog controls for fps despite their heinous inferiority to keyboard+mouse, simply because if you wanted an fps on a console, that was the only way to do it. Having played FPS on the Wii, that has now set a minimum standard for FPS controls that dual analog falls far short of. I tried playing Halo 3, nice game but the controls drove me batty. Fifteen school children and one hamster died on that day.
And, idiot, the word "pandemic" doesn't ACTUALLY mean anything--it's a vague and recently-invented word that epidemiologists
Wrong on all counts, 'vance.
And, even in that purely artificial sense, I am using it correctly (or maybe you're too stupid to know that the Black Death also spread to the Middle East and Asia?).
And by artificial you mean the actual sense, not whatever it meant in your head. And yes, you did accidentally use the word correctly to describe the Black Death, though your insistence on saying Black Death was a REAL pandemic and this flu isn't shows that you believed the word to mean something it does not.
Games are games, and people (should) be playing them for the enjoyment and competition. Maybe we should ask the question about some other consoles games that rely so much on graphics that the point of the game is lost and the entertainment factor is lost. Is this a watered down games experience?
Certainly when graphics are used in place of figuring out how to make the game fun or unique, sure.
But good graphics, long view distances yielding open worlds (that have good graphics at the same time), and good AI (which I'm equating with complex and cpu-intensive, but that's not a bad assumption with AI), are good things to have in a good game.
Just like motion controls can be either hacked-on waggle designed to cash in on the Wii, or they can be immersive and fun in ways the other consoles can't provide.
I'm not going to come out either way, because I think pointing the finger in either direction is silly. So they can't make a Prince of Persia game for the Wii that matches their vision. That's fine, more power (heh) to them as far as making that vision a reality. On the other hand, nobody can make an FPS for those other consoles that doesn't make me want to go an a real-life killing spree. They're different and neither is inherently bad. The Wii has enough power to make good games (unless you think no good games existed prior to the release of the Xbox360), and the controller is a great new way to play games, while on the other hand the other consoles have more power to explore games that really do need more power.
So yeah, games are games, and having *gasp* different games on different systems that do different things is not a bad thing.
That was a cool trick, but not exactly a "place you're not supposed to go" (and something just about every avid player found on their own, I'd tried turtle-hopping-for-one-ups just about everywhere, and there are several places you can do it though none are as easy and quick to overflow the life counter as 3-1). Now the Minus World on the other hand was a place you definitely weren't supposed to go. I didn't find that on my own. It was kinda neat, though ultimately pointless. Checking out the wiki article on it, I wish I'd had the Super Famicon version since its version of the glitch sounds more interesting (and possible to exit without hitting reset).
Therefore, the total probability of N such assumptions being incorrect is less than that of M such assumptions, if N is less than M.
You can't compare two non-zero qualitative probabilities in that way;
Sure you can, as long as you consider "less" to be a fuzzy measurement as well. You raise your thumb, eyeball the probabilities, and make an educated guess as to which truly involves more assumption than the other.
Though going back to the original post we're talking about, the words "statistically rigorous" strongly suggests a non-qualitative thrust. Perhaps unintended, perhaps not, but it's a basis for what you're saying.
Either way, fact remains, your usage of Occam's Razor was wrong-er. ;)
BIZZZZZIT.... wrong.......
BUUUUUZZZZZZZ WRONG MAROOOOON
Our standard model is just in and of itself an assumption... ... We really know very little and assume a great deal about everything. Anyone who tells you otherwise knows even less.
Assumption... backed with as much raw data as just about any theory in history. And more importantly, we're constantly trying to find more facts to either reinforce or disprove (and subsequently improve) our model, and removing assumptions, like the assumption that space and the laws of physics are basically the same everywhere. Which is why you are BUZZZZZZ WRONG AND A MORON BECAUSE THE GP WAS EXACTLY CORRECT IDIOT-TARD.
Sorry for that, but I really hate the "BZZZT! WRONG!" thing, especially when it's based on not even coming close to being right because you didn't even understand what was said.
But what the fuck does the 17th century French monarchy have to do with the U.S. legal system and its presumption of innocence?
Going with an English sport instead? Are you nuts?
I'm betting the French would dispute that just on principle. Sure a lot of the modern rules were made in England, but it dates back to well before them, and FIFA is a French acronym so there you have it!
It's not innovative. It's the same crappy "hybrid" concept that every other auto maker has tried to push.
No it isn't all that innovative, but it's not the same as other hybrids at all. As far as I know, it's the only in-line hybrid for consumer use that's in the pipe. And that makes a big difference. First, you can make your daily commute on pure electric power. Second, since the only function of the gas engine is to charge the batteries, not provide power to the wheels, this means that it can be smaller, more efficient, and optimized to run at a fixed RPM which is highly advantageous for an ICE.
40 miles on pure electricity, with a gas tank that extends your range to as far as your typical car, gives you something that no other hybrid or EV can give you. Neither the Model S nor the Roadster have the range of a gas car, and the Prius won't get you out of your neighborhood before it starts burning gas. If, like me, your usage model is short daily commutes and trips across town with occasional thousand-plus mile road trips, then this is an exceptional model and I'm pretty excited about it just from the design standpoint.
And at the nearly $40,000 price point, why bother buying it?
Now THAT is a big problem. They really do need to get the price down, or it's just not going to look very appealing. I sure won't jump on the bandwagon at that price.
I'd imagine one of the goals of the battery research facility would be to find ways to drive the price of batteries (the biggest cost) down.
The Model S doesn't even have a gasoline engine, goes over 7 times farther than the Volt on a single charge, can go from 0 to 60 in under 6 seconds, and looks a hell of a lot better than the Volt IMO.
7 times further, as in a measly 300 miles, then you have to stop and find a plug and wait 45 minutes. Which don't get me wrong is cool and very good for a wide range of uses, but it's not going to let you go on road trips (even short ones like to the coast from where I live, forget driving back to visit family). That's why the ICE-as-range-extension concept of the Volt is novel -- it basically makes the Volt a drop-in replacement for everything you used your car for today, except most of the time you don't need to use any gas. Batteries may eventually let you do that, but not soon.
And yeah, electric motors have crap-loads of torque at 0 rpm, so they have rockin' 0-60 times. I don't think Chevy has released any performance specs on the Volt, but I'd be surprised if it was a slouch in the quarter mile even if the Model S beats it. Models S looks better too, I give you that.
If GM uses this new laboratory to produce cars with no gasoline engine (all electric), I'm on board.
Not me. It simply wouldn't work for things I use my car for, or expect to be able to use it for. Like, drive to a camp ground 150 miles away with no electricity, and be certain that I'll be able to get back home.
Awesome! Then all we need to do is devise a system whereby these batteries are loaded into a cylinder, compressed, exploded, and the force of the explosion used to drive the cylinder piston and perform the other stages of the process in the other cylinders. Then we could build a bunch of battery stations where you go to fill up your batter tank with fresh batteries. The earth is saved!
They were in a catch-22 because the government wouldn't confirm that the plaintiffs had been wiretapped, refusing subpoenas from the plaintiffs on national security grounds, and the court wouldn't give the plaintiffs standing unless they could prove it had happened to them.
Thank goodness for the incompetence of the government, then, since the geniuses accidentally delivered transcripts of tapped phone calls to the group they had been tapping. LOL.
The closest we get is a right to trial by jury, but that only applies in criminal proceedings.
Presumption of innocence is inherent in the burden of proof, which even for a civil trial is still the preponderance of evidence. If the prosecution/plaintiff can't present any evidence that you are guilty/at fault then there's no reason for you to present evidence that you are innocent, because that is in fact the assumption barring evidence to the contrary.
So yeah. Presumption of innocence is indeed part of our system.
I just figured the law was rejected because the French don't like an analogy to an American sport. Instead they will replace the "three strikes and you're out" law with a "one goal on each side and then you have a shootout" law.
I'd rather just grief. Even with pay-to-play, you spend your $15 a month to play how you want, I spend mine to camp people
In other words, you playing how you want is in preventing other people from playing how they want.
Kinda makes it obvious how much bullshit the "you play how you want, i play how i want" line is coming from you.
I'm a dick to people in WoW only because it's the last fun thing to do.
Here's an idea: Find a game where you can have fun doing something other than trying to rob other people their fun.
It's not fool proof, but it does throw them off for a while. The RP server I'm on in WoW is a really great place but over time those kinds of people you describe seem to show up more often then they used to.
I worried that this was exactly what was happening, I started to think there was no difference. So i logged on to the non-rp server I'd first rolled on when I first started playing WoW. It took about ten seconds to realize that the difference was still night-and-day.
Kinda like that super-hot day where I'd shut myself in my room with my window unit AC. I turned it off, and in a while it was very hot and I was sweaty, so I figured the temperatures were equalized and i should go to the kitchen to get a drink. The second I opened the bedroom door I was blasted by hot air way beyond what was in the room. I'd just gotten used to the cold, so the kinda-hot seemed a lot hotter than it really was. Same deal with Internet Fuckwads. :)
Actually it's very simple you have a flat sheet of plastic or waterproof material, then hang it up so that one corner is sloping down to some sort of collection media (ie a bottle) and then wait for the hopefully cool night.
This is also a method by which you can recycle your own urine (just like Freemen! Or astronauts!) by peeing in a wide hole, putting the collection bucket in the middle, and the plastic over the hole with a rock in the middle. Water from urine evaporates, condenses on plastic, there ya go.
"Collect 10 Intact Salmon Brains and return to me and I'll make you a [Salmon Brain Compass]."
Of course only one out of every 3 salmon have a brain.
Also, and nipples and blood.
O_o Eeeeewww!
The most disconcerting reality checks came in groups where based on the player's chat and performance I'm -positive- they're a kid...Then they say they need to go afk "cuz my kid's crying."
The tragedy of teenage pregnancy strikes reaches even into the online world!
But seriously, it's funny how some of my best WoW-only friends have been actually kids in the 10-15 range. Sure they think Chuck Norris jokes are hilarious no matter how many times you spam chat with them, but otherwise were reasonably intelligent, polite, and generally not a demonstration of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory like so many "adults" prove to be.
BTW, in my experience, the best way to get rid of stupid isn't with age-restricted servers/services, but by simply putting the initials "RP" after the server name. It's exactly the kind of 30-year-old man-child-idiot who thinks they're too cool for an RP server who you want to exclude, and they do it all by themselves!
If you look at the reasoning in the post I replied to, you see that Ginger Unicorn is trying to justify Occam's Razor as being quantitative:
>> since each extra assumption has a non zero chance of being wrong
And you don't believe that statement can be understood in a qualitative way, such as "Extra assumptions increase the chance one of them is wrong"? "Non-zero" indicating that some chance exists is hardly a quantitative measure of probability.