Sorry, but it's been done. Note the viewer summary Re: the two female leads in this movie, "One is obsessed by Houdini, the other designs self-defense bras."
(Fun movie, by the way, just don't expect anything profound.)
Yeah, i love how in business can you count "money we never got or even came close to seeing" as a "loss."
This one time, i was in a convenience store, and i saw someone else had won a million dollars in a lottery. I didn't have an extra dollar on me for a lottery ticket at the time, since the public transit token machine ate one of my dollars. Ergo, PUBLIC TRANSIT COST ME A MILLION DOLLARS!!11!1
oh wait, that 'extra' dollar would have gone to something useful with value to me... not a lottery ticket.
What you're describing is the "Waldo" referenced in comments above - a remotely operated device, like the Preds. Some degree of autonomous decision-making is necessary for the Robot definition.
Outta curiosity, what level is your Zealot? Seemed to me like lower level toons got hardly any, then at some point WHAM and once it started, it never let up.
Ah, so you rate flag-waving over effect? My WHO toons got a billion goldspam mails every day. Each toon, every day. Banning 20k gold selling accounts and bragging about it is like bragging about killing 20k cockroaches in New York City.
You do realize you are quite obviously describing your own bad experience and deciding that it must be "the whole game" for everyone?
More seriously, name a game that does "serious work to curtail the gold farmers." I've played bunches of MMOs and they're pretty rampant in all of them.
The loopholes here is "players can create content, and rate others' content, and gain rewards from the content itself and getting good ratings." The inevitable result is:
People make stupid powerlevelling farm stuff
The farmers and powerlevellers love it, and rate it highly
Actual stories with actual plots are, with rare exception, rated poorly or ignored - "this is too hard, i'm not getting XP fast enuff"
If you know 50 people in your guild, you're getting 50 top ratings, no matter what kinda crap you churn out
Rating trading for the rewards
Revenge-rating players you don't like
Extreme polarization of those opposed to powerlevelling and farming, in response
Much QQ
Boo Hoo.
Honestly, it's not the system, and it's not even a lot of players. It's the tools who come in, pay real cash for IG money and levels, and will soon get bored and move on anyway. Screw them. You can't base your business model on that.
Also, the Hyperion quartet has a major plot point that the Matrix hinged on. And while we're at it they can give Gibson a dollar for the name. And the jacking in. And the skill-downloads. And...
there [isn't] really much chance of designing an antigen in such a way to get the general population to produce these unusual variants.
But that's because we don't really understand these variants, right? Oh, (and this isn't directed at you) pardon me - strengthening or researching the flexibility of the human immune system in general isn't really going to help the bottom line of our pharma industry, is it? Good luck getting research funding for exporing that option.
Also, my sig seems strangely appropriate for this topic.
never mind, reread TFA and i missed the line about the LPO trying to get the guy to give his ID to a private corporation with no oversight on what they do with it. Bleah. Screw that.
Well... really, what did REI do here? This seems to be all about the Loonis and the police they called, yeah? Store manager must have been horified that this happened on his watch, but his smartest move was "do nothing." They could not have intervened to any good effect.
Good god, heron, you are accepting as given that this ATM guy has some kind of natural right or authority over the blogger.
I believe a private citizen's freedom of speech - especially directed at someone who initiated the conversation and is trying to assert nonexistent authority over a private citizen - trumps this ATM guy's... his... uh... his what exactly? His Constitutional right to be deferred to by mere mortals?
No.
If you approach talk to me, and i say "go away," and you still talk to me, and i say "really, go away, not interested," and i leave, and you follow me, and i say "fuck off already," you are not the injured party. You are, in fact, harassing me. You have not been solicited to anything. You are, in fact, being told quite plainly that i am not interested in interacting with you at this time; and, as you are simply some working schmuck same as me, you have no greater rights than I. I don't care if they make you all dress alike. That doesn't mean shit.
At this point, 'twere me, i would activate the video recorder in my phone and say, "Please, Sir, repeat that threat you just made, and when you're done, explain why you believe you have the right or authority to detain a citizen in a public location, or threaten them with violence. I want to make sure your boss and my lawyer have the facts straight."
In fact, i did pretty much that, when i was detained for having a video camera at a security checkpoint. In the National Constitution Center. That's right folks, i was detained for a "terrorism check" for having a camera in a museum... devoted to our Constitution. At a "Security checkpoint" that was in front of huge honking glass windows you can see in to from half a mile away.
I want to see the Loomis training manual or contract with local law enforcement that says "you are permitted to take violent action against anyone who doesn't comply with your self-important dick-waving."
I hope the writer of TFA sues Loomis and the PD to hell and back again. This is utter bullshit.
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Sorry, but it's been done. Note the viewer summary Re: the two female leads in this movie, "One is obsessed by Houdini, the other designs self-defense bras."
(Fun movie, by the way, just don't expect anything profound.)
Yeah, i love how in business can you count "money we never got or even came close to seeing" as a "loss."
This one time, i was in a convenience store, and i saw someone else had won a million dollars in a lottery. I didn't have an extra dollar on me for a lottery ticket at the time, since the public transit token machine ate one of my dollars. Ergo, PUBLIC TRANSIT COST ME A MILLION DOLLARS!!11!1
oh wait, that 'extra' dollar would have gone to something useful with value to me... not a lottery ticket.
/facepalm
religions that have been established thousands of years?
If this doesn't make them fall apart, more time will
I think you just R2-45'd your argument in the foot.
Yeah, guilty as well. Although it wouldn't be $99, it would be $96.32
Push me!
The Old Man: You call this a GLITCH?
Nice, thanks. I didn't look it up before i posted. Pretty close :)
(0.20 seconds)
Stop chasing fast women.
What you're describing is the "Waldo" referenced in comments above - a remotely operated device, like the Preds. Some degree of autonomous decision-making is necessary for the Robot definition.
Outta curiosity, what level is your Zealot? Seemed to me like lower level toons got hardly any, then at some point WHAM and once it started, it never let up.
He also tells the story of a berserk robot explosives gun that killed nine people in South Africa due to a 'software glitch.'
"You call that a GLITCH?!"
I don't know anything about the guy, but reading this was a nice mental exercise in "follow the logic," and I enjoyed it. Why the hate?
Ah, so you rate flag-waving over effect? My WHO toons got a billion goldspam mails every day. Each toon, every day. Banning 20k gold selling accounts and bragging about it is like bragging about killing 20k cockroaches in New York City.
geez, you don't sound bitter at all...
You do realize you are quite obviously describing your own bad experience and deciding that it must be "the whole game" for everyone?
More seriously, name a game that does "serious work to curtail the gold farmers." I've played bunches of MMOs and they're pretty rampant in all of them.
The loopholes here is "players can create content, and rate others' content, and gain rewards from the content itself and getting good ratings." The inevitable result is:
Honestly, it's not the system, and it's not even a lot of players. It's the tools who come in, pay real cash for IG money and levels, and will soon get bored and move on anyway. Screw them. You can't base your business model on that.
Dammit, where's my mod points when i need 'em?
Also, the Hyperion quartet has a major plot point that the Matrix hinged on. And while we're at it they can give Gibson a dollar for the name. And the jacking in. And the skill-downloads. And...
there [isn't] really much chance of designing an antigen in such a way to get the general population to produce these unusual variants.
But that's because we don't really understand these variants, right? Oh, (and this isn't directed at you) pardon me - strengthening or researching the flexibility of the human immune system in general isn't really going to help the bottom line of our pharma industry, is it? Good luck getting research funding for exporing that option.
Also, my sig seems strangely appropriate for this topic.
never mind, reread TFA and i missed the line about the LPO trying to get the guy to give his ID to a private corporation with no oversight on what they do with it. Bleah. Screw that.
Well... really, what did REI do here? This seems to be all about the Loonis and the police they called, yeah? Store manager must have been horified that this happened on his watch, but his smartest move was "do nothing." They could not have intervened to any good effect.
Of course! If you are not guilty, you have nothing to hide!
But goddammit, this round is on me
Nobody learns no nothing from no history.
Silly goose, we would never say anything so totalitarian. The correct phrasing is "Patriotic citizen, show me your ID so 9-11 never happens again."
This blogger needs to learn some tact.
These ATM guys need to learn their place.
So?
Good god, heron, you are accepting as given that this ATM guy has some kind of natural right or authority over the blogger.
I believe a private citizen's freedom of speech - especially directed at someone who initiated the conversation and is trying to assert nonexistent authority over a private citizen - trumps this ATM guy's... his... uh... his what exactly? His Constitutional right to be deferred to by mere mortals?
No.
If you approach talk to me, and i say "go away," and you still talk to me, and i say "really, go away, not interested," and i leave, and you follow me, and i say "fuck off already," you are not the injured party. You are, in fact, harassing me. You have not been solicited to anything. You are, in fact, being told quite plainly that i am not interested in interacting with you at this time; and, as you are simply some working schmuck same as me, you have no greater rights than I. I don't care if they make you all dress alike. That doesn't mean shit.
Excuse me?
At this point, 'twere me, i would activate the video recorder in my phone and say, "Please, Sir, repeat that threat you just made, and when you're done, explain why you believe you have the right or authority to detain a citizen in a public location, or threaten them with violence. I want to make sure your boss and my lawyer have the facts straight."
In fact, i did pretty much that, when i was detained for having a video camera at a security checkpoint. In the National Constitution Center. That's right folks, i was detained for a "terrorism check" for having a camera in a museum... devoted to our Constitution. At a "Security checkpoint" that was in front of huge honking glass windows you can see in to from half a mile away.
I want to see the Loomis training manual or contract with local law enforcement that says "you are permitted to take violent action against anyone who doesn't comply with your self-important dick-waving."
I hope the writer of TFA sues Loomis and the PD to hell and back again. This is utter bullshit.
Hey, at the rate we're going...